MACLOSKIE : PRIMULACE^E. 



653 



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



rib, and reuniting submarginally, so as to produce 

 a veinless margin, } mm. broad. Flowers soli- 

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

 lanceolate, pale-greenish, imbricate ; petals larger, 

 y-veined, 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- 

 cated. Ovules numerous, on free central placenta. 

 S. Patagon., by J. 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. 



Lysimachia marginata. Leaf 



< 12. 



A. SERPYLLIFOLIUM (Poir) Ball. 



Stem erect, much branching. Leaves lanceolate, acute, 

 shorter than the leaves. 



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



Peduncles 



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. 



