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PRIMULACE.B 



fleshy, marine plant, 3—6 in. high, growing in tliick patches, 

 resembling Hoiikhiva peploides in its habit, with numerous ovate, 

 entire, opposite and decussate Leaves, and axillary pink flowers 



which are destitute of 

 corolla. — Sea-shores 

 and salt - marshes ; 

 common. The name 

 is from the Greek 

 glaiikos, sea-green.) — 

 Fl. June — August. 

 Perennial. 



7. Ana GAL LIS 

 (Pimpernel). — Slen- 

 der little plants with 

 opposite, entire 

 leaves ; axillary flowers 

 on threadlike stalks ; 

 corolla rotate or fun- 

 nel-shaped ; filaineiits 

 hairy ; capsule split- 

 t i n g all round. 

 (Name in Greek de- 

 noting that the plant 

 excites pleasure.) 

 1. A. a r V c n s i s 

 (Scarlet Pimpernel, Poor Man's 'Weather-glass), — A pretty little 

 plant, generally prostrate ; leaves sessile, ovate, dotted beneath ; 

 petals crenate, fringed with minute glandular 

 hairs, expanding only in fine weather, usually 

 bright scarlet, but occasionally pink, white with 

 a red eye, all white, or perhap.s blue. — Culti- 

 vated ground ; abundant. — Fl. INlay — October. 

 Annual. 



2. .-1. ccFri'ilea (Blue Pimpernel'). — A more 

 erect plant, without: the fringe to its petals, 

 which are usually liright blue ; but perhaps 

 occasionally red. Much less common. — V\. 

 May — October. Antiual. 



3. A. ieiiella (Bog_ Pimpernel). — A beautiful 

 little plant with very slender creeping st'eiiis, 3 — 4 ni. long ; small, 

 roundish, stalked leaves, shorter than the ilower-stalks ; and erect, 

 funnel-shaped, rose-pink ftaioers, larger than those of the Scarlet 

 Pimpernel. — Boggy ground and sides of rivulets ; common.— 

 Fl. June — August. Perennial, 



ANAH.tLLIS AHViNSIS {.Scnr/,/ Ph 

 A. TEN'liLLA i^t'Oi^ Phllpt'} 



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