IG. 



PHLOX CARNEA. 



Pale Lychnidea. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



Class 5. Order 1, 



FiiLOx. 4>Ao^ of Theophrastus, meaning ajlame; supposed to be so 

 named from the brightness of the flowers of some of the species. 

 Dodonseus supposed that <pXo^ used by Theophrastus applied to the 

 Viola tricolor ; but this term has been more generally applied to 

 Lychnis, Agrostemma, or Phlox. 



Linn. gen. n. 214. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cat. Perianth one-leafed, cylindrical, ten-cornered, five-toothed, acute, 

 permanent. Cor. one-petaled, valve-shaped ; tube cylindrical, 

 longer than the calyx, narrower below, curved in ; border flat, 

 five-parted ; segments equal, blunt, shorter than the tube. Stam. 

 Filaments five, within the tube of the corolla, two longer, one 

 shorter. Anthers in the throat of the corolla. Pist. Germ, coni- 

 cal. Style filiform, the length of the stamens. Stigma trifid, acute. 

 Per. Capsule ovate, three-cornered, three-celled, three-valved. 

 Seeds solitary, ovate. 



SPECIFIC character. 



Leaves lanceolate, smooth. Stem smooth. Flowers many. 



Root fibrous, perennial; stem herbaceous, rising to the height 

 of eighteen inches, on which the leaves are seated in pairs 

 arranged opposite, sitting close to the stalk, smooth, entire, 



