38 ELEMENTS OP BOTANY. 



II. TRUE HEATH SUB-FAMILY. 



Shrubs or small trees. Calyx free from the ovary. Corolla 

 hypogynous, usually gamopetalous. 



EPIGiEA, GROUND LAUREL, TRAILING ARBUTUS. 



Calyx large, 5-parted, with 3 bracts at the base, its divisions 

 ovate-lanceolate and almost distinct; corolla salver-shaped, 

 with its tube hairy within. Stamens 10, the anthers opening 

 lengthwise. Style slender, capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. 



(E. REPENS), Mayflower. A prostrate, creeping, barely shrubby 

 plant, with large roundish heart-shaped, evergreen, hairy leaves and 

 very fi-agrant pink or nearly white flowers in early spring. 



PRIMULACEiE, PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



Herbs with simple leaves, often most or all of them radical. 

 Flowers perfect and regular, generally gamopetalous. Sta- 

 mens commonly 5, inserted on the corolla, opposite its lobes. 

 Pistil consisting of a single stigma and style and a (generally 

 free) one-celled ovary, with a free central placenta (Fig. 132, c). 



I. DODECATHEON, SHOOTING STAR. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft, with reflexed, lanceolate divisions. 

 Tube of the corolla very short, the divisions of the 5-parted 

 limb strongly reflexed. Filaments short, somewhat united at 

 the base ; anthers long, acute, and combining to form a con- 

 spicuous cone. A smooth perennial herb, with a cluster 

 of oblong or spatulate root-leaves, fibrous roots, and an 

 unbranched scape, leafless except for an involucre of small 

 bracts at the summit, with a large umbel of showy nodding 

 flowers. Corolla varying from rose-color to white. 



(D. Meadia), Shooting Star, Indian Chief. Native in most 

 of the Middle and Southern States. Often cultivated. 



