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Primrose Family. 
Herbs, with 5-merous flowers; stamens 5, opposite to the 
petals; pistil 1, with 1 cell and a free central placenta. 
Gentian Family. 
Herbs, with bitter juice, opposite leaves, and 4-merous regular 
flowers; stamens 4; pistil 1; with a 1-celled ovulary with 
2 parietal placente. 
Morning Glory Family. 
Herbs, often climbing, with alternate leaves, regular 5-merous 
flowers; 5 stamens, and a single pistil, becoming a 2 to 
4-celled pod. 
Phlox Family. 
Herbs, with usually opposite leaves ; 5-merous flowers, regular 
and commonly salver form; 5 stamens and 1 pistil, with 
1-celled ovulary and 1 parietal placenta. 
Borrage Family. 
Mostly herbs with rough foliage, alternate leaves; 5-merous 
regular flowers in a coiled inflorescence; 5 stamens and 1 
pistil with a 4-parted ovulary. 
Bladderwort Family. 
Aquatic herbs, leaves often with bladder-like attachments ; 
flowers irregular. 
Honeysuckle Family. 
Mostly shrubs, often climbing, with opposite leaves; 5-merous, 
often irregular flowers, which are commonly tubular; sta- 
mens generally 5; pistil 1. 
Bell Flower Family. 
Herbs, with milky juice, alternate leaves and regular or irreg- 
ular 5-merous flowers; stamens 5; pistil 1; ovulary 2 to 
5-celled and adherent to calyx. 
Composite Family. (Not represented in key.) 
Dandelion, aster, sunflower; herbs mostly in temperate 
regions, with 5-merous flowers, crowded in a head and 
surrounded by a common involucre. 
