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PHLOX suffruticosa. 



Shining-leaved Phlox. 



. PENTANDRIA MOXOGYXIJ. 



PHLOX. Cal. 5-fidus atit 5-partitus connivens. Cor. hvpoyrvna, 

 iiypocratcriformis, tabo loogo, llltlbo piano ,3-partito. Stain. inu'qualia, 

 fion exserta, iilaineiitis imo tubo insertifl & etdetn ultra aduatis, intluris 

 sagittatis. Stylus 1. Stigma S-plex. Caps. S-loc, :J-valv. f v;dvia 

 medio septiferis. Sem. soiitaria. Herb*; folia <>]>posita simplicia f 

 Jioralia interdum alter na ; Jlorcs subcorymbosi terminates. Habitus Sa- 

 ponaria, sedfos mouopetalus. Jussieu. gen. ISf). 



P. suffruticosa, erecta, glaberrima; caule tereti maculato Ixvigato, foliis 

 ovato-oblongis stibcarnosis supra nitidis atrovirentibus, subtiis pallidk, 

 corymbis fastigiatis, ramis inferioribus elongatk nudiusculis, corollas 

 laciniis lato-obovatis subretusis, deiitihus calycinis lanceolatis mucio- 

 natis. (Pursh, nbi infra, sub P. nitida). 



Phlox suffruticosa. JVilld. enum. 200. 



Phlox nitida. Pursh amer. sept 2. 7.50. in suppl. 



Caulis bipedalis et ultra, strict issimus, teres, maculatus, corymboso-ramo- 





sus, suffruticosus, sempervirens ; rami summitate numerose conjerteque Jlori- 

 feriy cymosofastigiantes 9 ad lentem super ne subpubescentes. Folia distantia, 

 longe acuminata, fr ma, atroviridia. Cor. limbo saturate vivideque vio/aceo- 

 purpurascente, stella centrali ex radiis 5 saturatioribus picto, laciniis lato-ob- 

 cordatis, retusis, subimbrioaio-contiguis. 



Nearly akin to Phlox Carolina, but in that the stem and 

 foliage are pubescent ; in this entirely smooth, except as to 

 a very minute loose pile upon the stalks of the corymb. 

 The flowers are here of a more brilliant violet-purple than 

 in that, the foliage of a far darker and more shining green, 

 -and of a considerably firmer thicker substance: but the 

 more remarkable distinction is the suffrutescent stem, 

 which continues undecayed, and in leaf at the lower part 



the winter through. 



Willdenow, in his account of the plants cultivated in 

 the Berlin garden, has been the first to establish the 

 species, and by the above name. Mr. Pursh, unacquainted 

 with this circumstance, has inserted it in the supplement 

 to his North American Flora by another. 



Native of South Carolina. Blooms with us from the 

 end of July to the end of October. Seldom exceeds two 



