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• « From a depressed or biKidt-ihaped fleshy corm. 



3. CYCLAMEN. Flower resembling that of Dodeoatheon, but only one on a 



scape or stalk. Anthers sessile, pointed. 



§ 2. With leafy stems, the leaves simple and chiefly entire, 

 * In one whorl at the summit of the slender stem : parts of the flower 7. 



4. TRIENTALIS. Calyx and corolla wheel-shaped, of mostly 7 divisions united 



only at base, those of the former linear-lanceolate, of the latter oblong, of 

 both pointed. Filaments united in a ring at base ; anthers oblong, curving 

 when old. Flowers white. 



* * In pairs or whorls along the sterna : parts of the flower mostly 5. 

 6. LYSIMACHIA. Corolla yellow, wheel-shaped, B-parted (or rarely of 5, 6, or 

 even 7 nearly or quite separate narrow petals). Filaments beardless, often 

 monadelphous at base. Pod splitting into valves. 



6. ANAGALLIS. Corolla red, blue, or white, wheel-shaped, the 5 divisions broad. 



Filaments bearded. Pod (a pyxis) open by a transverse division, the top 

 falling off as a lid, many-seeded. 



* * * AUernaie leaves along the branching stems : base of calyx and ovary coherent. 



7. SAMOLUS. Calyx 5-cIeft. Corolla beU-shaped, S-cleft, with a little body 



like a sterile filament in the clefts. Stamens included. Pod many-seeded, 

 splitting into 6 valves. Flowers small, white, in racemes. 



§ 3. With hollow inflated leafy stems ; the leaves whorled or scattered, the loioer ones 

 pinnately parted: parts of thefloioer 5. 



8. HOTTONIA. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla short salver-shaped : stamens included. 



Pod opening by 5 clefts down the side, many-seeded. Flowers small, in 

 whorls along the upper part of the stem and branches. 



1, PRIMULA, PKIMROSE, COWSLIP, &c. (Name from primus, 

 spring, from the flowering-time of true Primrose.) y, Two small species 

 are scarce along our northern bordei's (see Manual) : the following are the 

 common ones cult, for ornament. 



* Tender house-plant, with inflated conical calyx, and round-heart-shaped 7-9- 



tobed leaves. 



P. Sinensis, Chinese Primrose, a downy plant, with often proliferous 

 umbels of large and showy flowers, purple, rose, or white, sometimes double, 

 in one variety cut-fringed. 



* « Hardy or nearly so, from Eu , with las-ge tubular or oblang-bell-shaped angled 



calyx, and wrinkled-veiny oblong or spatulate leaves tapering into short wing- 

 margined petioles : flowers naturally yellow, in spring. 

 P. grandiflbra (or aca^jlis). True Primrose, has leaves somewhat 

 hairy beneath, and the large flowers rising on slender pedicels from their axils, 

 theproper scapes not developed ; corolla flat, sulphur-yellow. 



P. officinalis (or viiRis), English Cowslip ; somewhat pubescent with 

 minute pale down, scapes bearing the umbels above the leaves, much smaller 

 flowers of deeper color, and the limb of corolla rather concave or cup-like, the 

 (hroat commonly orange. The sorts of Polyanthus are cultivated varieties, 

 with flowers enlarged, of various colors, or partycolored, often more or less 

 double. 



« * * Scarcely hardy N., with bell-shaped calyx much shorter than the funnel- 

 shaped corolla, and smooth and thick obovate leaves, mostly covered with 

 some fine mealiness. 

 P. Auricula, Auricula, of Southern Europe ; low, with sessile leaves, 

 and scape bearing a few fragrant flowers, these pale yellow, with varieties white, 

 purple, or of various hues, sometimes full double. 



2. DODEOATHEON. (Fanciful name, from Greek for iiwe/wej'orfs.) 2/ 

 D. Me&dia, called Shooting-Stau at the West, or sometimes American 



Cowslip : in rich open woods from Penn. S. and especially "W., and cult, for 

 ornament ; smooth, with a cluster of oblong or spatulate leaves around the base 



