OLEACE^E 49 



Manna-ash, with white flowers in a terminal thyrse, is 

 doubtfully wild in the South. 



Order LII. PRIMULACE^E. 



Calyx 5-cleft; corolla regular, 5-lobed, rarely o; stamens 

 5, epipetalous, opposite the corolla-lobes; ovary I -celled, 

 with central placentation ; style I ; stigma capitate ; style 

 often of different lengths in different individuals ; fruit a 

 capsule. A very large order, belonging chiefly to the 

 Temperate and Arctic Zones. 



i. ANDROSACE, Tourn. 



Flowers small, white, yellow, or pink, in umbels sur- 

 rounded by an involucre of bracts, or solitary in the axils 

 of the leaves ; corolla rotate, 5-lobed, with a long tube. 

 A very pretty genus of almost exclusively alpine plants. 



A. Flowers solitary, yellow: A. Vitaliana, Nees 

 (Aretia Vitaliana, L., Gregoria Vitaliana, Dub.); corolla- 

 tube twice as long as calyx, corolla-lobes entire, stem 

 prostrate, leaves linear, in rosettes ; high ; Valais, Pied- 

 mont (Mont Cenis), Tirol, Pyrenees, rare. 



B. Flowers in umbels, red or pink ; alpine plants : 

 A. carnea, L. ; flowers pink, corolla-lobes entire, stem, 

 flower-stalk, and calyx hairy, leaves linear-subulate, nar- 

 rowed upwards ; high ; Switzerland, Tirol, Vosges, Dau- 

 phiny, Pyrenees, local. A. Wulfeniana, Sieb. ; flowers 

 red, pink, or purple, stalked, about \ in. diam., funnel- 

 shaped, with cordate corolla-lobes, leaves small, hairy; 

 rare; Carinthia, Styria, Salzburg. A. Hausmanni, Leyb.; 



flowers reddish, \ in. diameter, saucer-shaped, with emar- 

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