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PRIMULACE.E 



fleshy, marine plant, 3 — 6 in. high, growing in thick patches, 

 resembling Honkenya peploides in its habit, with numerous ovate, 

 entire, opposite and decussate leaves, and axillary pink flowers 



which are destitute of 

 corolla. — Sea-shores 

 and salt - marshes ; 

 common. The name 

 is from the Greek 

 [7 glaukos, sea-green.) — 

 Fl. June — August. 

 Perennial. 



7. AnagAllis 

 (Pimpernel). — Slen- 

 der little plants with 

 opposite, entire 

 leaves ; axillary flowers 

 on threadlike stalks ; 

 corolla rotate or fun- 

 nel-shaped ; filaments 

 hairy ; capsule split- 

 ting all round. 

 (Name in Greek de- 

 noting that the plant 

 excites pleasure.) 

 1. A. arvensis 

 (Scarlet Pimpernel, Poor Man's Weather-glass). — A pretty little 

 plant, generally prostrate ; leaves sessile, ovate, dotted beneath ; 

 petals crenate, fringed with minute glandular 

 hairs, expanding only in fine weather, usually 

 bright scarlet, but occasionally pink, white with 

 a red eye, all white, or perhaps blue. — Culti- 

 vated ground ; abundant. — Fl. May — October. 

 Annual. 



2. A.- cceri'dea (Blue Pimpernel). — A more 

 erect plant, without the fringe to its petals, 

 which are usually bright blue ; but perhaps 

 occasionally red. Much less common. — Fl. 

 May — October. Annual. 



3. A. tenella (Bog Pimpernel). — A beautiful 

 little plant with very slender creeping stems, 3 — 4 in. long ; small, 

 roundish, stalked leaves, shorter than the flower-stalks ; and erect, 

 funnel-shaped, rose-pink flowers, larger than those of the Scarlet 

 Pimpernel. — Boggy ground and sides of rivulets ; common. — 

 Fl. June— August. Perennial. 



anagAllis arve^sis (Scarlet Pimpernel) and 

 A. tenella (Bog Pimpernel). 



CENTtftCULUS Mfxi.MUS 



(Cliaffweed). 



