72 PRIMULACE, (PRIMROSE FAMILY.) 
1. ARMERIA, Willd. Turut. 
Calyx scarious, funnel-form. Styles 5, filiform. Stemless perennials, with linear 
grass-like leaves in close tufts, the naked scape bearing a head of rose-colored flowers. 
1. A. vulgaris, Willd. Scapes a foot or two high. On sandy hills along the 
coast. 
2, STATICH, L, Marsu-Rosemary. 
Flowers in small spikes or clusters, crowded at the extremities of a branching scape; 
their structure nearly as in Armeria. Leaves commonly with a broad blade, tapering 
into a petiole. 
1. S. Limonium, L. Leaves obovate-oblong; spikelets 2-3-flowered. Salt 
marshes. 
Oxper 35. PRIMIULACEZS. 
Herbs, with perfect, regular flowers, well marked, by having the stamens as long as 
the lobes of the corolla, and opposite to them, inserted on its tube, a single entire style 
and stigma, a one-celled ovary, and capsular fruit. Calyx 4-8-cleft, commonly 5-clett, 
hypogynous.—Leaves simple; stipules none. In Glaux the corollais wanting; stamens 
on the calyx alternate with its lobes. 
* Flowers umbellate on a naked scape. 
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** Flowers axillary, on leafy stems. 
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1. DODECATHEON, L. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft, the divisions reflexed in the flower, afterwards erect over the 
ovate or oblong capsule. Corolla with a very short tube, a dilated, thickened throat and 
an abruptly reflexed 4-5-parted limb; its divisions long and narrow, entire. Stamens 
inserted in the throat of the corolla, erect, cohering around the slender exserted style.— 
Acaulescent perennial smooth herbs, with a tuft of radical’leaves. Corolla purple, pink, 
or rarely white. Frequently the parts are in fours, 
1. D. Meadia, L. Leaves varying from obovate to lanceolate, entire or toothed; 
scape 3 to 15 inches high; umbel, 2-20-flowered. A variable species. Ours is chiefly 
the 
Var. brevifolium, with leaves round-obovate or spatulate, less than an inch to an 
inch and a half long. 
