MACLOSKIE : PRIMULACE^. 



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pidatc, the leaf-nerves branching from the mid- FlG - 8 4- 



rib, and reuniting submarginally, so as to produce 

 a veinless margin, */ 2 mm. broad. Flowers soli- 

 tary in the axils, on short pedicels ; sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, pale-greenish, imbricate ; petals larger, 

 7-vejned, pinkish. Stamens 5, inserted on base 

 of petals, cohering in a column half-way up, 

 antipetalous, anthers connivent. Filaments with 

 yellow-stalked glands at base. Ovary superior, 

 globular; style i, 3 mm. long, unbranched, trun- 



, ^ , Lysimachia marrinata. Leaf 



cated. Ovules numerous, on free central placenta. and flower> x I2 

 S. Patagon., byj. B. Hatcher. 



5. ASTEROLINUM Link. & Hoffmans. 



Small annuals with opposite leaves, and minute flowers, solitary on 

 axillary peduncles. Calyx-segments awned-mucronate, exceeding the 

 convolute corolla-lobes. Capsule globose, valved. Seeds few. Species 

 5, Mediterranean Region and South America. 



A. SERPYLLIFOLIUM (Poir) Ball. 



Stem erect, much branching. Leaves lanceolate, acute. Peduncles 

 shorter than the leaves. 



(S. Europe, Argentine) ; N. and S. Patagon. 



6. ANAGALLIS Linn. Weather-glass. 



Branching, mostly glabrous herbs, with mostly opposite, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, entire or subentire leaves, and small, axillary, peduncled 5-merous 

 flowers. Corolla rotate, exceeding the calyx. Capsule globose, circum- 

 scissile 



Species 15, Eurasian; i introduced to N. Amer. 



I. A. ALTERNIFOLIA Cav. 



Stem stoloniferous, creeping, much branching, leafy. Leaves alternate, 

 thick, ovate-lanceolate, attenuate both ways, glabrous, acute or mucronate, 

 crowded, sessile, or the lower subpetiolate. Peduncles slender, erect, as 

 long as the leaves. Corolline-segments lanceolate, obtuse, twice as long 

 as the calyx. Filaments bearded below. Capsule half as long as the calyx. 



(Chili) ; Chubut, swampy meadows ; Staaten Is. 



