314 PRIMULACE^. (primrose FAMILY.) 



a while mealiness: corolla pale lilac with a yellow eye. — Shores of Lakes St. 

 Clair and Huron ; also Mount Kineo, Maine {A. H. Smith), and northward. 

 June, July. — Sciipc 3' -10' lii;.^h. (Eu.) 



2. P, Mistassinica, jNIichx. Leaves spatulatc or wedge-oblong, thin and 

 veiny, not mealy; involucre 1-8-flowcred; lobes of the flesh-colored corolla 

 broadly and deeply obeordate. — Shores of the Upper Lakes : also Crooked Lake 

 (Utirtirell) and Annsville, Oneida County, New York (Knicskern and Vasey), 

 Wilioughby Mountain, Vermont (Wood, Sfc), and northward. May. — A 

 pretty species, 2' -6' high. (Eu.) 



2. ANDROSACE, Tourn. Androsace. 



Calyx 5-cleft ; the tube short. Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-form ; the tube 

 shorter than the calyx, contracted at the throHt; the limb 5-parted. Stamens 

 and style included. Tod 5-valved. — Small herbs, with clustered root-leaves, 

 and very small solitary or unibellcd flowers. (An ancient and obscure name, 

 thought by Linnaeus to be formed of at8poy, of man, and o-fiKOf, a shield.) 



1. A. OCCidentalis, Pursh. Smoothish annual; scapes diff'use (2' -4' 

 high), many-flowered ; leaves and leaflets of the involucre oblong-ovate, entire, 

 sessile ; calyx-lobes leafy, triangular-lanceolate, longer than the (white) corolla. 

 — Bare hills on the Mississippi, Illinois, and northwestward. 



3. DODECATHEON, L. American Cowslip. 



Calyx deeply .'i-cleft ; the divisions lanceolate, reflexed. Corolla with a very 

 short tube, a thickened throat, and a .5-partcd reflexed limb ; the divisions long 

 and narrow. Filaments short, monadelphous at the base : anthers long and 

 linear, approximate in a slender cone. — Perennial smooth herb, with fibrous 

 roots, a cluster of oblong or spatulate leaves, and a simple naked scape, involu- 

 cratc with small bracts at the summit, bearing an ample umbel of showy flowers, 

 nodding on slender peduncles. Corolla rose-color, or sometimes white. (Name 

 fancifully assumed from ScoSfKu, twelve, and 6eoi, gods.) 



1 . D. Me^dia, L. — Kich woods, Pennsylvania and Maryland to Wiscon- 

 sin, and southwcstward. May, June. — Very handsome in cultivation. In the 

 West called Siiooting-Star. 



4. TRIENTALIS, L. Ciiickweed-Wintekgreen. 



Calyx mostly 7-parted; the divisions linear-lanceolate, pointed. Corolla 

 mostly 7-parted, spreading, flat, without any tube. Filaments slender, united in 

 a ring at the base : anthers oblong, rcvolutc after flowering. Pod fcw-sccdcd. — 

 Low and smooth perennials, with simple erect stems, bearing a few alternate 

 usually minute and scale-like leaves below, and a whorl of thin veiny leaves at 

 the summit. Peduncles one or more, very slender, bearing a delicate white and 

 star shaped flower. (A Latin name, meaning the third part of a foot, alluding 

 to the heijrht of the plant.) 



1. T. Americana, Pursh. (Star-flower.) Leaves elongated-lanceo- 

 late, tapering to both ends ; petals fiiiely pointed. — Damp cold woods : common 

 northward, and southward in the mountains. May. 



