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•OTANICAL 

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The American Botanist 



VOL. XXIX NOVEMBER. 1923 No. 4 



All day the blasted oaJ^ has stood 

 A muffled "wizard of the wood; 

 Qarland and airy cap adorn 

 The sumach and the rvayide thorn, 

 And clustered spangles lodge and shine 

 In the dar/^ tresses oj the pine. 



Trowbridge. 



OUR NATIVE PHLOXES 



By W11.1.ARD N. CivUTE 



'T^HE phlox genus m?.y be said to be exclusively North 

 "^ American although a single species of the West extends 

 into Siberia. There are some thirty species of phloxes in the 

 world and all are perennial except the well known Phlox 

 drummondi of Texas and adjacent regions. Other species 

 are found in practically all parts of the United States, l)ut the 

 species are most numerous in the West. As regards ahun- 

 ciance of individuals, however it would be difficult to find a 

 spot in which they were more plentiful than in the one shown 

 in our frontispiece which was made from a photograph tak- 

 en in Northern Illinois. 



The species illustrated is Piilox divaricata often called 

 /^ Canadensis by nurserymen. This species occurs in most of 

 the territory east of the Mississippi. All of the other Eastern 

 species appear to avoid New England. One or two reach Con- 

 necticut l)ut New York or Pennsvlvania seem to be the north- 



