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Phlox Ov ata. Ovate-Leaved Phlox, 

 or Lychnidea. 



C/u/i a»<" Oripr. 

 Pentandria M on og V m i A. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. hypocrateriformis. Fi 'amenta imequalia. Stigma 3-fidum. 

 Gj/. prifmaticus. Cdg/] 3-locularis, l-fperma. 

 Specific Character and Synonyms. 

 PHLOX ovala, foliis radicalisms ovatis acutis fubcarnofis, co- 

 rymbis fubfaltigiatis, corollae laciniis undulatis retufis. 

 PHLOX ovala, foliis ovatis, (loribus folitariis. Linn. Spec. 

 Plant. 217. ? 



As this rpecics has been fome years known in the Englifli 

 gardens under the name of Ph lox ovala, and correfponds with 

 the fpecimeii preferved under the fame appellation in Sir 

 Joseph Banks's Herbarium, we do not hefitate to continue 

 it, at lcaft: till we mail be* certain that the Linnean ovala is 

 really a different plant, although it hardly feems probable that 

 culture lhould make inch a change as to convert a naturally 

 folitary flower into fo large a panicle. 



The leaves of the {talk vary very much in breadth, and are 

 fometimes lanceolate rather than ovate, but the radical leaves, 

 efpeciatly thole of the young (hoots which are pufhed out from 

 the root after the plant has done flowering, always preferve 

 their character. The flowers nod on their iirli coming out. 

 The whole plant is perfectly fmooth. 



It is a native of North-America, and, though generally 

 confidercd as a greenhouie plant, appears to be a hardy 

 herbaceous perennial^and we obferved, that when treated as 

 Inch at Meflrs. Whiti.wy's and Co. where it is planted in the 

 open border in a foil confuting chiefly of a i'andy loam, it 

 thrives better than under any other management, the roots 

 lending forth very vigorous (hoots at a confidcrable diitance 

 from the parent plant. 



Our drawing was made fome years ago from a fpecimen 

 which flowered in the Botanic Garden at Brompton, fince 

 which time it is become much more common. It may be 

 elteemed one of the bandfotneft of the genus ; is eafily pro- 

 pagated by parting the roots, thrives heft in a fandy loam, and 

 although lufficiently hardy to rehlt the cold of our ordinary 

 winters, it may be fafeft to give fome pots of it the fhelter ol 

 a greenhouie or of a melon frame. 



