38 ELEMENTS OP BOTANY. 



II. TRUE HEATH SUB-FAMILY. 



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

 hypogynous, usually gamopetalous. 



EPIG^A, GEOmSfD LAUREL, TRAILING ARBUTUS. 



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

 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. EEPENS), Mayflower. A prostrate, creeping, barely shrubby 

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

 very fragrant pink or nearly white flowers in early spring. 



PRIMULACE.iE, PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



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

 Flowers perfect and regular, generally gamopetalous. Sta- 

 mens commonly 6, 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. DODECATHEOW, SHOOTING STAR. 



Calyx deeply 6-cleft, with reflexed, lanceolate divisions. 

 Tube of the corolla very short, the divisions of the 6-parted 

 limb strongly reflexed. Filainents 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. Mkadia), Shooting Stab, Indian Chief. Native in most 

 of the Middle and Southern States. Often cultivated. 



