79 POLEMONIACEiE. , [Phlox, 



Z>r. Richardson, — j3. and y. From lat. CG». to the Arctic sea-coast, in deep sand, both in the north (Dr. 

 i2icAa?</so«),and in N.W. America, Kamstchatka,&c. MenzieSyChamissOt Langsdorff, Lat;, andCoUie. — Few 

 plants are more variable, and few more extensively distributed in the temperate and colder regions of the 

 northern hemisphere, than the present; from Kamoon and Kolghur, in Northern India, to Spitzbergen 

 and the Arctic sea-shores of Europe, Asia, and America. I have long hesitated whether or not I should 

 consider the var. y. as distinct from the true ccEruleum, but I fear it presents no valid points of difference. 

 The species is met with of all sizes, in all states of hairiness, and with all sizes of the flower. In specimens 

 from poor Douglas's last communications, are some from New Albion, which I would refer to var. y., but 

 with the corolla shorter than the calyx! In another specimen from the same country, with the habit and 

 flowers of pulcherrimum, the leaflets are as large as in the common state of/*, cceruleum, and as acute, or 

 nearly so, as those of Dr. Wallich's specimens from India, 



2. PHLOX. Z. 



CaL 5-fidus5 subcylindricus, persistens, laciniis angustis. Co7\ hypocrateriformis, tubo 

 cylindrico. Stam, insequalia tubo inserta. Antherce sagittatse. Stigma trifidum. Cap- 

 mla ovato-triangularis, trivalvis, locub's submonospermis. 



!• P, maculata; tota glabra, caule erecto maculato, foliis lanceolatis superioribus ovatis 

 longe acLiminatis sessilibus margine scabriusculo, paniculas oblongse ramis confer- 

 tis abbreviatis, dentibus calycinis breviusculis erectis acutis, corollas laciniis rotundatis. 

 Jacq. Hort, Find, t 127. Pursh^ Am. i\ ].p. 149. Torrey, v. I. p. 228.— P. paniculata. 

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Hab. Upper Canada? 3Ir. Sheppard.—The specimen from Mr. Sheppard is certainly the P. maculata 

 of American authors, but I do not see how it is to be distinguished from P. paniculata of the Hart, Kew, 



2, P. divaricata; decumbens, pubescens, ramis divaricatis laxis paucifloris, foliis ovato- 



lanceolatis supremis alternis, dentibus calycinis subulatis, corollse laciniis obcordatis. L, 



Bot. Mag. t. 163. Mich, Am. v. \. p. 144. Ph, Am, v. I. p, 150. Elliott^ Carol v, 1. p. 

 248. Torrey, p. 229. 



Hab. Canada. Mrs. Percival. 



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3. P. speciosa ; erect'd ramosa frutescens, glabra, foliis linearibus acuniinatis pungenti- 

 bus basi dilatatis subciliatis margine callosis: supremis alternis, floribus corymbosis, sepalis 

 acuminatis margine membranaceis tubo corollae suba^qualibus, laciniis corollse cuneato- 

 oblongis integris. Lindl.—Ph. Am, v. 1. p. 149. Lindl, Bot. Peg, t, 1351.—^. caule 



foliisque pubescentibus.— P. humilis. Dougl ms.—y. elatior; caule foliisque glaberrimis. 

 P. Sabini. Dougl. ms. 



Hab. ». N.W. America. Plains of the Columbia. Lewis, Douglas.—^. Subalpine range of the Rocky 

 Mountains near perpetual snow, and on the Blue Mountains, N.W. Am.— y. Limestone Rocks of the 

 Blue Mountains. Douglas.—ln deference to the opinion of Professor Lindley, I retain this as a species; but 

 I must confess it borders too closely on P, svbidata. and that again I have elsewhere observed, {Comp, to 

 the Bot. Mag. v. l.p. 172.} I am totally unable to distinguish from P. setacea, to which belongs p' ni- 

 valis, Lodd and Sweet. Dr. Lindley has already noticed its affinity with our next species, P. Sibirica, L 

 which indeed is very close, and probably they might all be safely considered as belonging to one and 'the 

 same species. The leaves in this latter, however, are more flaccid, the lower ones are constantly marces- 

 cent, and the corymbs are fewer flowered. 



