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57. LEADWORT FAMILY. Order PLUMB AGINACEiE. 
Familiar to us in two plants only, viz. Marsh-Rosemary 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 (lavender-color) spiked or sessile along the 
branches of a forking panicle : leaves spatulate, 
thickish, on petioles, nearly all of them from the 
stout rootstock, ( Statice) Marsh-Rosemary. 
430. Calyx and corolla of Thrift ; separated. 431. Pistil of the same, with its 5 styles : 
also the lower part of ail ovary more magnified, cut across. 
58. PRIMROSE FAMILY. Order PRIMULACEiE. 
Herbs, with regular perfect flowers ; completely distinguished by having the stamens of 
the same number as the lobes to the corolla and 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, ( Hottonia ) 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, ( Samolus ) 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, ( Primula ) Primrose. 
Calyx and corolla 5-parted, turned back : anthers long, and filaments very 
short, connected, ( Dodecatheon ) Dodecatkeon. 
Leaves several in a whorl at the summit of the slender stem. Calyx and corolla 
7-parted, wheel-shaped, with narrow divisions, ( Trientalis) 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, ( Anagallis ) Pimpernel. 
Loosestrife. 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. FI. 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. slricla. 
