PRIMKOSE FAMILY. 375 



fpom all other genera of the order by the absence of a corolla. Calyx 

 purplish or white, campanulate, 5-lobecl, assuming the appearance of 

 a corolla, the stamens alternating with its lobes. Capsule 5-valved at 

 apex. Seeds few, immersed in the tissue of the placenta. (From 

 the Greek glaukos, sea-green.) 



1. G. maritima L. Sea. Milkwort. Herbage somewhat succu.» 

 lent; running rootstocks slender; stems 8 to 11 in. high, erect, or 

 ascending from a decumbent base, sinlple or eventually branching; 

 leaves oblong, 4 to 7 lines long; flowers less than 2 lines long, solitary in 

 the axils, almost sessile; calyx-segments elliptic; capsule globose, a 

 little over 1 line long. 



Marshy shores of Sun Francisco and Suisun Bays. June. 



3. ANAGALLIS L. Pimpernel. 

 Low herbs with opposite or sometimes ternate entire leaves. Flow- 

 ers axillary, on slender pedicels. Calyx deeply 5-cleft into narrow 

 segments. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-parted, the rounded lobes con- 

 volute in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the base of the corolla; 

 filaments hirsute or pubescent. Capsule circumscissile. (Greek, 

 meaning delightful.) 



1. A. arvensis L. Poor Max's Weathbr-qlass. Stems 1 ft. 

 long, procumbent or ascending; leaves deltoid-ovate, acute, sessile, 4 

 lines long, shorter than the pedicels; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 

 scarious-raargined toward the base, nearly distinct; corolla vermilion, 

 rotate, 4 to 5 lines broad, the petals lightly joined at base, minutely 

 glandular-ciliate at apex; capsules on recurved pedicels; seeds J line 

 long, triangular, the surface pitted'. 



Crescent City to Southern California, mostly near the coast: com- 

 mon ' about San Francisco Bay (Berkeley, Napa Valley, etc.). 

 Naturalized. 



4. TRIENTALIS L. 



Low and glabrous perennials. Rootstocks sometimes stoloniferous, 

 tuberous. Stem simple, bearing scales or small leaves below and a 

 whorl of large leaves above, from the center of which the filiform 

 peduncles arise. Flowers commonly 7 (5 or 6)-merous. Corolla 

 rotate, deeply parted. Filaments long and filiform, united at base 

 into a very short ring. Style filiform. Capsule valves 5, revolute. 

 (Latin trientalis, containing one-third of a, foot, in allusion to the 

 height of the plants.) 



1. T. Europaea L. var. latifolia Torr. Star-flower. Stems 4 

 to 6 in. high, from tubers J to nearly 1 in. long; leaves of the involii- 

 cral whorl 5 or 6, 1 to 2 in. long, broadly obovate, abruptly acute, 

 drawn down to a very short petiole; peduncle f to 2 in. long; corolla 

 white or rose-red, about 4 lines broad, its divisions abruptly acuminate 

 and prolonged into a slender point; calyx-lobes narrowly linear- 

 lanceolate, mucronate, exceeding the capsule. 



Coast Eange woods: Monterey Co.; Santa Cruz; Crystal Springs; 

 Berkeley; Marin Co.; western Napa Co.; Healdsburg; Mendocino 



