1104 POLEMONIACEAE 
striate; tube 12-16 mm. long, glabrous or puberulent; lobes Lu 8-11 mm. 
terminally entire, undu late, or mu cronulate.— (HAIRY x.)—Open 
ENS 
he 
a hybrid between P. uoa lata and P. stolonifera, with gland- 
ti pped re md long stamens and s —P. Lighthipei Small, with flowering 
shoots up to 50 cm. tall and often D leaves may not be specifically distinct. 
P. mmondii Hook. Stem NU pe up to 40 em. tall, pubescent with 
nee mier hairs: leaf-blades up to 9 em. long and to 15 mm. wide, sessile, 
the lower opposite and qudd and "uic upper alternate, and lanceolate 
to elliptic, conspicuously aw tipped: cymes corymbosely compound: calyx- 
tube 4-5 mm. and lobes 4—7 mm. long: corolla rose-red to purple, rt 
and adj. la. and — Spr 
on has produced in this species hundreds of Es “of varying types of 
corolla-lobing, and numerous different colors. 
9. P. stolonifera Sims. Plant dense mat, with decumbent evergreen 
sterile iid rooting freely at ie ‘nodes, and erect deciduous eae m 
cent flowering shoots up to 30 em. tall: f-blades up to 8 em. long and 2 
wide, obovate- -spatulate to elliptic- ise eyme simple or eben com- 
pou yx-tube about 5 mm. long; lobes as long or somewhat shorter: 
o bright-purple, o or pes white, the eye a E tube 20-25 
mm. long; lobes 10-12 mm. long. [P. reptans cag (CRE G-PHLOX.)— 
Woods, in P pU and slightly acid soils, Blue ge, Appalachian Plateau 
and rarely adj. provinces, Ga. to Ohio and Pa. me iim ough o ceurcung 
pr. 
locally in large ure for dd [ds repeated rooting of the E shoots; hav 
ing developed the ability to apre E. itself in this manner, it produces Bed 
only sparin xe 
10. P. a L. Plant in an open-mat, ea 1 pod leaves somewhat per- 
ee des the glabrate flowering- -shoots up t tall; leaf-blades up to 
10 em. long and to 4 em. wide, the lower BE "middle petioled, the upper sub- 
Sio elliptic to A or ovate: cyme simple eorymbosely compound: 
ealyx-tube 6-8 mm. and lobes 3-5 mm. Th tU toa or rarely 
white, the eye slightly striate; tube 18-23 mm. long; ; lobes 10-15 mm. long.— 
(MouNTAIN-PHLOX.)—Thicke ts and open woods, rather acid soil, higher 
ee to — dcs an ~ 24 New England Upland, Ga. to E Ind. 
E r.— —Spee s lacking the decumbent stems tipped 
s Deu a p are difficult to distinguish aon the next-following species, 
which this is probably ancestra 
11. P. carolina L. Plant tufted, puberulent or sometimes nDe the stems 
up E^ oo ee und em. x often purple- e leaf-blades up to 12 
em and 35 vide, t ower linear but the upper usually o 
ously pee elliptic lanceolate T vate: cymes in a pe mb or broad eorym- 
bose paniele, exeeptiona ally conical: calyx-tube usually £6 mm. and lobes 2.5- 
. long: a de m 
4.5 
ate; tube 15- 26- mm. ps lobes 7-15 mm. long.—(THICK-LEAP PHLOX.)—Open 
woods and occasionally meadows, in subacid soil, chiefly in the Blue Ridge and 
EM EY Ed but oeeasionally in Pie 'dmont or even Coastal Plain, 
to Miss., S Ind. and W Md.—Late spr.-fa ali. —Represents an apparent 
intermediate a Nos. 10, 12 and 13, and grades into them in some col- 
onies. 
12. P. glaberrima L. Plant tufted, glabrous or essentially so, the stems all 
erect, up to 60 (rarely 100) cm. tall: leaf-blades up to 15 em. long and to 15 
