PRIMROSE FAMILY 



(Primulacece) 



Herbs with regular, perfect flowers, the parts of the calyx 

 an.d gamopetalous corolla usually in 5's. Stamens of the same 

 number as the lobes of the corolla, and opposite to them, in- 

 serted on its base. 



SHOOTING STAR (Dodocdtheon Cleveldndi, Greene). Flowers 

 white, lilac or pinkish with a yellow ring at the base, the 5 

 deeply-cleft corolla lobes sharply reflexed, as in the garden cy- 

 clamen; the stamens and pistil bunched together and ex- 

 tending like a purple beak at the tip of the nodding flowers; 

 blossoms borne in umbels on naked stalks from a few inches 

 to a foot or more tall. Leaves thickish, in a basal tuft. 

 Blooming from February until May in meadows and on grassy 

 slopes in Southern California one of the best beloved of 

 Pacific Coast wild flowers, often called Wild Cyclamen. 



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