434 - PRIMULACEAE dodecatheon 



PRIMULA 



i-i as long as the scape : involucral bracts lanceolate : segments of the 

 corolla rich lilac-purple the undivided part yellow, with a scolloped ring 

 of deep purple midway between the base of the segments and the stamen 

 tube : stamen-tube often nearly as long as the anthers, yellow : anthers 

 purple : capsule crustaceous, 6 lines long, nearly cylindrical, acute, open- 

 ing by 5 short teeth. At middle elevations, eastern Oregon to the Rocky 

 Mountains and New Mexico. 



D. Cusickii Greene 1. c. More or less pubescent and glandular : 

 leaves broadly to narrowly lanceolate, entire, or dentate toward the apex, 

 usually obtuse, 1-2 inches long, narrowed below to a winged petiole : 

 scapes 3-4 inches high, few-flowered : bracts of the involucre narrowly 

 lanceolate, 1-2 lines long: lobes of the calyx lanceolate, acute, but little 

 longer than the tube : corolla-lobes dark purple with yellow base and a 

 dark purple line at the mouth of the tube : stamen tube less than a line 

 long, almost black : anthers yellow with a black stripe through the centre : 

 capsule ovoid, acute, scarcely surpassing the calyx, 5-valved from the 

 apex. Dry hillsides, eastern Oregon and Brit. Columbia. 



* * Corolla salverform or funnelform: stamens included, dis- 

 tinct, ivith short filame'nts and short blunt anthers. 

 2 PRIMULA L. Gen. n. 197. 



Perennial scapose herbs with all radical leaves and large or 

 small flowers umbellate or in involucrate or bracted racemose 

 whorls at the summit of a scape. Calyx tubular, funnelform or 

 campanulate, persistent, often angled, 5-lobed, the lobes imbri- 

 cated. Corolla funnelform or salverform, the tube longer than or 

 at least equalling the calyx. Stamens 5, distinct, inserted on the 

 tube or at the throat of the corolla. Style filiform : stigma capi- 

 tate. Caf)sule 5-valved at the summit, many-seeded. Seeds pel- 

 tate : the testa punctate. 



- P. Broadheadae Jones Zoe iii, 306. "2 to 4 inches high; 1 to 4 

 flowered ; scapes 2 to 4 inches long ; leaves 1 to 4 inches long, narrowly 

 elliptical rounded at apex, glabrous, rather thick, smooth, entire, nar- 

 rowed at base to a winged petiole an inch or less long; flowers purple, 

 about 5 lines wide, lobes orbicvilar or nearly so, notched, with a very 

 short claw 2 lines long, tube exceeding the calyx by 2 lines ; funnelform 

 above the calyx; calyx-lobes 1% lines long and subulate lanceolate, barely 

 acute, equalling the tube of the calyx; pod nearly spherical; pedicels of 

 the lateral flowers about a line long, the terminal one 2 to 6 lines long; 

 bracts oblong to ovate lanceolate, entire or toothed at apex, 1 to 6 lines 

 long ; base of plant covered with the dead sheaths of former leaves. 

 Marshy places at Ketchum, Idaho,'' 



Var. minor Jones 1, c, "Leaves an inch long or less, elliptical ob- 

 lanceolate and acute, thin: lobes of the corolla as large as the type, but 

 obovate ; lobes of the calyx longer than the tube ; flowers 1 to 2 on the 

 scape; bracts long; plant 2 inches high, Bayhorse, Idaho. 



P. Cusickiana Gray Syn. Fl, Supp, 399, Leaves oblong-spatulate or 

 narrower 2 inches long, entire, or rarely denticulate : scapes 2-6 inches 

 high, 1-4-flowered: involucre of 2 or 3 conspicuous unequal bracts: calyx 

 green with a whitish line down from the sinuses of • the campanulate 

 tube: its lobes from lanceolate to subulate, about the length of the tube 

 and nearly equalling the tube of the corolla: lobes of the corolla refuse. 

 On rocky hillsides, Union Co,, Oregon. 



