POPDLAB FLORA. 



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Familiar 



67. LEADWOET FAMILY. Order PLUMBAGINACE^. 



to us in two plants only, viz. Maksh-Rosemaky on the coast, and Thrift in 

 gardens; known by having a dry and scaly funnel-shaped 

 calyx, and 5 petals united only at their base, with a stamen 

 before each, and 5 styles on a single one-seeded ovary. 



Flowers (rose-color) in a round head on a long and 

 naked scape: leaves very narrow, all in a close tuft 

 at the root, {Armeria) Thrift. 



Flowers (Iavender-c<?lor) spiked or sessile along the 

 branches of a forking panicle : leaves spatulate, 

 thickish, on petioles, nearly all of them from the 

 stout rootstock, {Stdiice) Maksh-Rosemary. 



430. Cnlyx and corolla of Thrift ; Bepnraled, 431. PiBlil of the same, wuh its 5 styles ; 

 also llie lower pa.t uf an ovary more mao^nified, cut across. 



58. PRIMROSE FAMILY. Order PRIMULACE^. 

 Herbs, with regular perfect flowers ; completely distinguished by having the stamens of 

 the same number as the lobes to the corolla ami one before each, inserted on the tube ; the 

 pistil with a one-celled ovary or pod, with one large placenta rising from its base, and bear- 

 ing many or few seeds. 



Leaves under water pinnately divided into thread-like divisions ; flowering stems hollow, 



and inflated between the joints, {ffottdnia) Featherfoil. 



Leaves simple and entire or barely toothed. 



Calyx with its tube coherent with the base of the ovary. Flowers very small, white, 



in racemes. Leaves alternate, {Sdnwlus) Brookweed. 



Calyx and corolla free, inserted on the receptacle. 

 Leaves all at the root : flowers in an umbel. 



Calyx tubular: corolla salver-shaped: stamens included, {Primvki) Primrose. 



Calyx and corolla 5-parted, turned back: anthers long, and filaments very 



short, connected, (Dorlecdlheon) Dodecatkeon. 



Leaves several in a whorl at the summit of the slender stem. Calyx and corolla 



7-parted, wheel-shaped, with narrow divisions, ( Tnentalis) Star-flower. 



Leaves {mostly opposite or whorled) borne along the whole length of the stem: 

 corolla 5-parted. 

 Corolla wheel-shaped, yellow, {Lysimdchia) Loosestrife. 



Corolla wheel-shaped, blue or purple : pod opening by a lid, (Anagdllia) Pimpernel. 



Ijoosestrife. Lysimdchia. 

 This is the only genus in the Primrose family of which we have more than one common wild spe 

 cies. The 5 stamens have their filaments a little monadelphous at the base, and often unequal. Fl. in 

 summer. 



1. Strict L. Leaves opposite or scattered, lance-shaped : stem ending in a long raceme leafy at the 

 base ; divisions of the corolla lance-oblong. Low grounds. L. stricta. 



