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PHLox CAROLINA. ROUGH-STEMMED 
LYCHNIDEA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
EENTERg@OS Monocynta. 
Generic Charaiter. 
Cor. hypocrateriformis. Filam, inzequalia. ‘Stigma wrifidam. 
Cal, prifmaticus. Cap/: 3-locularis, 1-fperma. - 
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Specific Charaffer and § SYMONYIIS. 
PHLOX carolina; foliis Janceolatis levibus, caule feabro, 
corymbis fubfaftigiatis. Sp. Pl. 216. Reich. 1. p. 
432. Willd. 1. p. 841. Mart. Mill. Did. n, 6. 
Hort. Kew. ed. nov. 1. 326. 
LYCHNIDEA caroliniana, floribus quafi umbellatim difpo- 
fitis, foliis lucidis craffis acutis. Mart. Dec. 1. 4.10. 
Desc. Stems ere&, between two and three feet high, rough 
with ftiff, fhort, white hairs, producing a mealy appearance, but 
otherwife nearly invifible to the naked eye. Leaves oppofite, 
lanceolate, fmooth, flefhy, fubconnate, lower ones almoft 
linear : upper pairs more diftant. Peduncles rough, bearing 
feveral flowers crowded together, alternate, forming a rather 
denfe corymb. Calyx {mooth, with a pentagonal bafe: teeth ereét, 
lanceolate, generally reddifh. Corolla fauccr-fhaped: tube 
twice the length of the limb, curved, fmooth, ftriate: imé 
divided into five roundifh quite entire fegments. The colour 
of the tube is violet, of the limb bright purple, tarred in the 
centre, fading violet. Anthers in part exferted. 
‘We know of no other fpecies that has rough ftems and 
peduncles and at the fame time fmooth leaves. According to 
Martin, in his Hiftoria Plantarum Rariorum, it was firft 
introduced by Mr. Cowext, a Nurferyman at Hoxton, before 
the year 1728. It has, however, been probably for fome 
years loft from our gardens. Our drawing and defcription 
Were taken from plants imported by Mr. Fraser, Sloane- 
Square, the laft fpring, from South-Carolina. 
