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 Phlox amcena. Eraser's hairy Phlox. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Fid. No, 1307. 



Specific Charatler. 



PHLOX amaena ; hirfuta, caulibus aflurgentibus, foliis ovato- 

 Janceolatis, foliolis calycinis fubulatis, corollae tubo 

 flriclo glabro. 



"HLOX pilofa; humilis, decumbens, pubefcens : foliis lan- 

 ceolatis, afperiufculis : fummitatibus fubfefliliter 

 fafciculifloris : calycis foliolis fubulatoacuminatis : 

 corollae laciniis rotundato-obtufis. Michaux Flor. 

 Bor. Am. 1. p. 145 ? 



( This fpecies of Phlox is too nearly allied to the one figured 

 in the preceding plate. The form of the calyx, the pubefcence 

 of the item and leaves, and the inflorence, are juli the fame 

 ln both, and the only points of difference, except in the 

 colour, fize, and flatter expanfion of the corolla, that we can 

 uncover, are that the ftem in our prefent plant is more de- 

 cumbent,; the tube of the corolla ftraight and fmooth, which, 

 in pihfa % is fomewhat curved and hairy ; the leaves are rather 

 broader in the middle and narrowed towards each extremity, 

 whereas in the other they are broadeft at the bafe and fre- 

 quently, but not conftantly, auriculated. 



Pi- uke net's figure appears to us to belong to our pilofa^ 

 as well as the fynonym quoted from Ray by Linn m us, and 

 We fee no r^on to doubt but that it is the real pilofa of Lin - 

 N *us. But what Michaux has defcribed for pilofa we take 

 to be our amcena. Mr. Fraser firft difcoverad it in 1786, 

 P e ar the Santee Canal, in South- Carolina, and never met with 

 U in any other place. He has feveral times before attempted 

 to introduce it into England, but without fuccefs until the 

 Prefent year. 



Prom the fize and brilliancy of its flowers, it mult be 

 deemed a valuable acquifition to our gardens. Flowers in 

 May, j unei am j j u iy. Being a native of the fouthern ftate 

 11 will probably be a little tender. 



