PIUJIULACEAB (PHIMROSE FAMILY) 643 



PLTJMBAGINACEAE (Leadwoet Family) 



Herbs, with regular 5-merous flowers, a plaited calyx, the 5 stamens opposite 

 the separate petals or the lobes of the corolla, and the free ovary l-celled, xoith a 

 solitary ovule hanging from a long cord which rises from the base of the cell. — 

 Represented in our flora by the single genus 



1. LimdmUM [Tourn.] Hill. Ska Lavender. Marsh Rosemary 



Flowers scattered or loosely spiked and 1-sided on the branches, 2-3-braoted. 

 Calyx funnel-form, dry and membranaceous, persistent. Corolla of 5 neai-ly or 

 quite distinct petals, with long claws, the 5 stamens severally attached to their 

 bases. Styles 5, rarely 3, separate. Fruit membranous and indehiscent, in the 

 bottom of the calyx. Embryo straight, in mealy albumen. — Sea-side perennials, 

 with thick and stalked radical leaves ; the naked flowering stems or scapes 

 branched into panicles, {keiiiiiivtov, the ancient Greek name, presumably from 

 'Ktifi.ibv, a meadow.^ Statice Willd., not L. 



1 . L. carolini^num ( Walt. ) Britton. Root thick and woody, very astringent ; 

 leaves oblong, spatulate, or obovate-lanceolate, 1-ribbed, tipped with a deciduous 

 bristly point, petioled ; scape much-branched, panicled, 1.5-6 dm. high ; spike- 

 lets 1-3-flowered ; flowers lavender-color ; calyx-tube hairy on the ai'.gles, the 

 lobes acute or acuminate, with as many teeth in the sinuses. {Statice Limoniuin, 

 var. Gray.) — Salt marshes, Lab. to Tex. July-Sept. 



PRIMULACEAE (Primrose Family) 



Herbs, with simple leaves, and regular perfect flowers, the stamens as many 

 as the lobes of the gamopetalous (rarely polypetalous) corolla {none in Glaux) 

 and inserted opposite them (on the tube or base), and a l-celled ovary with a 

 central free placenta rising from the base, bearing several or many seeds. 

 Calyx free from the ovary, or in Samolus partly adherent. Stamens 4 or 5, 

 rarely 6 or 8. Style and stigma one. Seeds with a small embryo in fleshy 

 albumen. Ovules amphitropous, except in Hottonia. 



* Corolla or petaloid calyx with erect or spreading segments. 

 ^- Stemless ; leaves all In a cluster from the root ; capsule dehiscent by valves or teeth. 



1. Primula. Corolla i'linnel-form or salver-shaped, open at the throat. Stamens included. 



2. Androsace. Corolla short, very small, constricted at the throat. Stamens included. 



+■ -f- Stems leafy. 

 ++ Aquatic ; immersed leaves pectinate. 



3. Hottonia. Corolla short-salver-form. Flowers verticillate and racemose; 



■H- ++ Terrestrial or marsh plants ; leaves entire. 

 = Ovary adnate at base to the base of the calyx. 



4. Samolus. Corolla bell-shaped, with 5 staminodia in the sinuses. Flowers racemose. 



= = Ovary wholly free. 

 a. Capsule dehiscent vertically by valves or irregularly, mostly globose. 



5. Lysimachia. Corolla 5-6-parted or 5-6-petaled. Staminodia none. Leaves dotted. 



6. Steironema. Corolla and calyx 5-parted. Five slender staminodia between the fertile 



stamens. 



7. Trlentalls. Corolla and calyx mostly 7-parted. S^m leafy only at the summit. 



8. Glaux. Corolla none ; the calyx petal-like. Flowers axillary. 



b. Globose capsule ciroumscissile, the top falling off as a lid ; flowers axillary. 



9. Anagallis. Corolla longer than the calyx, 6-parted. Leaves opposite. 



10. Centunculus. Corolla shorter than the calyx, 4-5-cleft. Leaves alternate. 



* * Corolla and calyx with reflexed segments. 



11. Dodecatheon. Corolla 6-p3rt?d. Stamens exserted, connivent In a cone. 



