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Ee Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA Monocynia. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cor. hypocrateriformis. Filamenta inequalia, Stigma 3-fidum. i 
— Cal. prifmaticus. Cap/- g-locularis 1-fperma. 
Specific Charaier and Synonyms. 
PHLOX fetacca foliis fetaceis glabris, floribus folitariis. Léa, 
ee Syft. Vegetab, ed. 14. Murr. p. 200. Sp. Pl. 917. 
LYCHNIDEA bDlattarie accedens virginiana camphorate con- 
generis glabris foliis. Pluk. Alm. 233. t. 98. 7. ae, 
eaiammgll 
This tribe of plants, of which there is fcarcely one that is not 
ornamental, are chiefly natives of North-America; fuch is the 
prefent {pecies, brought from Carolina by Mr. Joun Fraser 
in 1788, now introduced to moft of the colle&ions about town, 
and ufually treated as a green-houfe plan. = 
Its ftalks, when fupported, rife to the height of about 
foot, if left to themfelves, trailing on the ground ; they 
thickly covered with leaves, which are longer and, for th 
moft part, finer, and more hairy than thofe of the /udulati 
figured pl. 411, and in the month of May the whole plant, 
fuccefsfully treated and carefully tied up, forms a highly orna- 
mental bufh of purple flowers. z 
This fpecies, like moft of the others, is eafily raifed fro 
_ Cuttings, which fhould be ftruck early in the fpring, as fuc 
will become flowering plants the next feafon; to have this 
plant in perfe€tion, it is neceffary to renew it thus yearly, 0 
ese being lefs produtive of flowers, and lefs perfe& in t 
oliage. es aE te 
Plants are frequently kept in green-houfes that would fu 
ceed better, and blow more freely, with a lefs tender treatt 
thus this fpecies of Phlox, whick in mild winters woul 
_ abroad, requires only the fhelter of a frame, and may D 
garded therefore, with many others, rather as a frame th 
_ green-houfe plant. — ae es 
