228 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. phlox. 



Root perennial. Sum as tail as in P fianiculata, spotted with 

 red. Leaves opposite, sessile, very entire ; upper ones lanceo- 

 late. Corolla beautiful purple. Teeth of the calyx short. 

 Stigma bifid, with subemarginate segments. Smit h. 



Hab. In mountain meadows. Pennsylvania- to Carolina. 

 Purshy Muhlenberg. August. 



3. P. maculala L. : erect ; stem scabrous and spotted ; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, smooth, scabrous on the margin ; 

 panicle oblong, man}- flowered ; segments of the corolla 

 rounded ; teeth of the cal)X acute ; recurved. JV il I d. Spec. 

 I. p. 840. Mich. Fl. l. p. 143. Pursk Fl. ],T^. I4d 

 Elliott Sk, I. p. 244? Roem. ($' Schult. IV. p. 357. 



Hoot perennial. Stem two and a half feet high, simple, sca- 

 brous, particularly above, and dotted with purple. Uppev 

 leaves ovate, or oblong lanceolate, acuminate, scabrous on the 

 margin ; lower ones gradually becoming narrower till they are 

 quae linear ; all of them opposite. Mowers in an oblong rai 

 ther crowded panicle. Calyx with spreading lanceolate acu- 

 minate teeth. Corolla pale purple ; segments rounded. 



Hab. In rich moist meadows. New-Jersey. In Pennsylvania,. 

 Muh lenber g. New-England to Carolina. Pur ah. JunCo 

 Perhaps distinct from the southern plant. 



^. suaveolens : stem not spotted ; corolla white. P. suO' 

 veolens A it. Kezo. I. p. 206. Pur sh FL 1. p. 149. Roem, 

 iir Schult. IV. p. 368. P. maculala /3. Candida M i c h. Ft. 

 I. p. 143. 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenbe rg. 



JVu tt a 1 1 remarks, that the P. suaveolens is no where to 

 be found wild, and that it appears to be only a white flowered 

 variety of P. maculata, raised from seed. I have never seen 

 it except in gardens. 



4. P. aristata Mich.; stem erect, weak, viscid-pubes- 

 cent ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; panicle lax, fastigiate ; seg* 

 ments of the corolla obovate ; tube curved, pubescent; teeth 

 of the calyx very long, subulateo Mich. Ft. I. p. 144. 

 P urshFLl.'p.\bO. F I li o tt Sk. l.p.UQ. Roem.i^ 

 Schult. IV. p. 361. 



Root perennial. Stem a foot and a half high, villose-pubescent, 

 simple. Leaves opposite, almost linear, an inch and a half in 

 length, subpubescent. Teeth of the calyx aristate, with the 

 points recurved. Corolla pale purple or white; segments 

 obovate, entire. 



Hab. In wet meadows in the pine barrens of New-Jersey. In 

 Pennsylvania. Mu h len b e r g. June. 



This is supposed by J\ru ttall to be only a smoother va- 

 riety of P. pilosa J 3nd, indeed, itdoes not appear to be very 

 distinct. 



