212 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS 
having an equable temperature. Three genera occur in Florida, one of 
them (Icacorea paniculata) being rather an ornamental shrub, with 
panicles of creamy white flowers. (Fig. 182.) Several species of this 
genus and of Myrsine are cultivated in greenhouses, but the family is 
not, as a whole, remarkable for economic or other uses. 
Family Primulaceae. Primrose Family. Contains about 28 genera 
and 350 species, widely distributed. Allare herbs, with regular flowers, 
the calyx and corolla each 5-cleft or 5-parted, the stamens also 5. Ovary 
1-celled, becoming a 2-6-valved capsule in fruit. There is one genus 
(Glauz) in which the corolla is entirely wanting. 
The largest genus is the type of the family (Primula), containing 
Fic. 184. The Shooting Star (Dodecatheon Meadia), considerably reduced. 
Original. 
