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

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

 from 5o>5e/ca, twelve, and 0eof, gods, given by Pliny to the primrose, which was 

 believed to be under the care of the superior gods.) 



1. D. Meadia, L. (SHOOTING-STAR.) Rich woods, Penn. and Md. to 

 Wise., south to Ga. and Tex. May, June. Very handsome in cultivation. 



3. PRIMULA, L. PRIMROSE. COWSLIP. 



Calyx tubular, angled, 5-cleft. Corolla salver-shaped, enlarging above the 

 insertion of the stamens ; the 5 lobes often notched or inversely heart-shaped. 

 Stamens 5, included. Capsule many-seeded, splitting at the top into 5 valves 

 or 10 teeth. Low perennial herbs, producing a tuft of veiny leaves at the 

 root, and simple scapes, bearing the flowers in an umbel. (Name a diminu- 

 tive of primus, from the flowering of the true Primrose in early spring.) 



1. P. farinbsa, L. ( BIRD'S-EYE PRIMROSE.) Scape 3- 10' high; leaves 

 elliptical or obovate-lanceolate, denticulate, the lower side and the 3 - 20-flow- 

 ered involucre, etc., covered with a white mealiness, at least when young ; 

 corolla pale lilac with a yellow eye. Maine to N. shore of L. Superior, and 

 northward. June, July. (Eu., Asia.) 



2. P. Mistassinica, Michx. Scape 2-6' high; leaves spatulate or 

 wedge-oblong, thin and veiny, not mealy ; involucre 1 - 8-flowered ; lobes of the 

 flesh-colored corolla broadly and deeply obcordate. Wet banks and shores, 

 northern N. Eng. and N. Y. to L. Superior, and northward. May. (Eu.) 



4. ANDROSACE, Tourn. 



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

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

 style included. Capsule 5-valved. Small herbs, with clustered root-leaves, 

 and very small solitary or umbelled flowers. (An ancient Greek name of a 

 polyp, formerly believed to be a plant.) 



1. A. Occident alls, Pursh. Smoothish annual; scapes diffuse (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, from Minn, to 111. and Ark., and west to the mountains. 



5. TBIENTALIS, L. CHICKWEED-WINTERGREEN. 



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

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

 ring at the base ; anthers oblong, revolute after flowering. Capsule few-seeded. 



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 height of the plant.) 



1 . T. Americana, Pursh. (STAR-FLOWER.) Spreading by very slender 

 elongated rootstocks ; leaves elongated-lanceolate, tapering to both ends ; petals 

 finely pointed. Damp cold woods, from Lab. to Minn., south to N. Ind., ancj 

 the mountains of Va. May. Rootstocks often 1-2 long (Hitchings). 



