PRIMROSE FAMILY 



Corolla. — With short tube, thickened throat, five-parted, reflexed 

 border; the divisions long and narrow. 



Stamens. — Five, exserted; filaments short, anthers long, narrow, 

 growing together in a slender cone, yellow tinted with purple at the base. 



Ovary. — One-celled; style and stigma one. 



Capsule. — Many-seeded. 



Shooting Star appears as a rosette of oblong, deep-green leaves, 

 from which rises a simple stem bearing a cluster of nodding, 

 pointed flowers. The blossoms suggest a small cyclamen. The 

 stamens come together in a point and seem to be shooting ahead, 

 while the petals stream behind, thus giving the flower a frightened 

 look. As a wildling its flowers are rose or white, but the garden 

 forms vary the rose to lilac and purple, usually with a yellow cir- 

 cle at the mouth of the corolla. The garden forms are hybrids of 

 Dodecatheon Meadia and Dodecatheon Jeffery, of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 



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