272 FLORA HISTORICA. 



Few plants present us v.ith a more agreeable 

 bouquet than is displayed on the stalks of some 

 kinds of Phlox, some of which have their corollas 

 of a beautiful lilac, lightly tinged with rose, some 

 of an ardent red, some of a pure white, and others 

 of a bright purple like a flame, from whence the 

 idea of the name of Flamma^ or Phlox. 



The Smooth Phlox, Glabcrrima, was the first 

 kind cultivated in this country, which Miller seems 

 to have grown in the botanic garden at Chelsea, as 

 long back as the year 119.5 ; and, although it is 

 now a century since this plant was first introduced _, 

 yet it remains rather a rare than a common plant, 

 in comparison to many others of less beauty, and 

 later introduction. This kind sends up a stalk 

 near twenty inches in height, dividing into three 

 or four small branches towards the top, each ter- 

 minated by a corymb of flowers, that usually ap- 

 pear in June. 



The Shining-leaved Phlox, Suffrutkosa, which 

 was brought to this country in the year 1813, is a 

 beautiful species, throwing up stalks about two feet" 

 in height, from which are displayed corymbs of 

 flowers of a most brilliant violet purple colour, 

 somewhat resembling a fine cluster of Polyanthuses, 

 excepting that the eye of the flower seems placed 

 in a star. This ornamental plant, which is a native 

 of South Carolina, flowers from the end of July to 



