PRIMROSE FAMILY. Primulaceae. 
company, pushing their way up through the mold and 
pine-needles, in the Wawona woods. 
PRIMROSE FAMILY. Primulaceae. 
A rather large family, widely distributed; herbs; leaves 
undivided; flowers perfect, regular, parts usually in fives, 
corolla mostly with united petals, stamens on the base or 
tube of the corolla, opposite its lobes, sometimes with some 
extra, sterile filaments; ovary one-celled, mostly superior, 
with one style and round-headed stigma; fruit a capsule, 
with one or many seeds. 
There are several kinds of Anagallis, not native in this 
‘country. 
A little weed, common in gardens and 
waste places, with smooth, four-sided, 
stems, branching and half trailing on the 
Scarlet Pimpernel 
Poor-man’s 
Weather-glass 
Anagillis ground, smooth, toothless, bright green 
arvénsis leaves and charming little flowers, a 
Feit quarter of an inch or more across, with a 
West etc: five-lobed calyx and wheel-shaped, five- 
lobed corolla, usually bright orange-red 
and darker in the center, rarely white; the stamens five, 
with hairy filaments; the capsule smooth and roundish, 
containing many minute seeds. The flowers and leaves 
are usually in pairs, the seed-vessels on the tips of slender 
stems, curving around and toward each other, as if the 
plant were stretching out its little hands, and opening its 
little blossoms only in bright weather and closing them at 
night. The Greek name means “amusing.’”’ The plant 
was used medicinally by the ancients. 
There are three kinds of Trientalis, much alike, peren- 
nials, with tuberous roots. The Latin name means “one 
third of a foot,” the height of these plants. 
A little woodland plant, with a slender 
Sap accord stem, from three to six inches tall, bearing 
Trientdlis 4 i ; 
latifolia at the top a circle of from four to six, 
White, pink smooth, bright green leaves and one or two, 
Spring, summer- threadlike flower-stalks, each tipped with 
en Cal., 4 delicate flower. The corolla is about half 
: an inch across, wheel-shaped, with no tube 
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