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VHLOX^ specidsa. 



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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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Nat. Ord, POLEMONIACE.^, 



PHLOX.— Suprh, vol 1. fol 68. 



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p. speciosa; erecta, ramosa, frutescens, glabra, foliis linearibus acummatis 

 pungentibus basi dilatatis subciliatis margine callosis : supremis alternis, 

 floribus corymbosis, sepalis acuminatis margine membranaceis tubo 

 coroUae subsequalibus, laciniis coroUoe cuneato-oblongis mtegris. 



P. spedosa. Pursh fl. am. sept. 1. 149. Mmer et Schulles syst. veg. 



4.364. Spreng.syst.\.Q2A. '' ' 



Fruticulus pedalis, erectus, ramosus, dumosus, glaber nisi ad marginem 

 baseos foliorum, necnon sepalorum. Folia linearia, acuminata, pungentia, 

 tacfu scabra, margine callosa, und^ quasi tricostata : costis dtiabus mar- 

 ginalibus ; folia superiora alterna. Flores carnei, in ramuhs terminates, 

 corymbosi. Sepala d basi lata membranacea, acuminata, tubicoroUcB longi- 

 tudine, cequalia, costata, intHs tomentosa. Corolla hypocratenformis, glabra, 

 laciniis limbi planis, cuneato-oblongis, integris. 



from 



This rare plant was 



ginally described by Pursh 



specimens in Lewis's Herbarium, collected upon the 

 J of the Columbia. 'It was afterwards discovered by 



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distr 



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abundance upon the dry lands of the 



and from seeds collected by that traveller the 

 solitary individual from which this figure was taken 

 raised in the Garden b^ the Horticultural Society 



It 



extremely impatient of cult 

 rains have nearly destroyed it 

 it will be soon lost altogether 



The late incessant 

 and it is to be feared that 



• The (p)Co 



• The (pVol of Theophrastus, the Agrostemma cu u.. 

 ^as so called on accotitit of the flame colour of its corolla, 

 s'goifies fire. 



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