378 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



purplish. Leaves, round, fleshy, opposite, wedge-shaped, the 

 lower degenerating into scales. Sepals, 2, leaf-like. Corolla, 

 tubular, 4-cleft, bell-shaped. Stamens, 4, alternate with the 

 lobes of the corolla. Style, short, with a 2-divided stigma. 



A low, 3 to 8 inches high, generally simple stem, purplish 

 green in color, with nearly sessile flowers in groups of threes, 

 or single in the leaf-axils, or terminating the stem. 



A rather curious plant, with thick, roundish leaves, found in 

 New Jersey, southward to Georgia, and westward. 



51. Creeping Phlox 



Phlox r6ptans. — Family, Polemonium. Color, deep crim- 

 son. Leaves, evergreen, opposite, sessile, ovate, blunt at apex, 

 I inch long or less. Th?ie, May, June. 



Calyx-teeth, 5, long, narrow. Corolla, salver-form, the tube 

 long, the border 5-divided. Stamens, z^. Style, 2,-\ohQ.(i. Cap- 

 sule, 3-celled. Stem, 4 to 8 inches tall, from a rootstock. The 

 terminal bud of this ascends and forms a cyme of few flowers, 

 followed by another shoot bearing only leaves. 



Among the Alleghanies, fro^n Pennsylvania to Georgia. 



52. Wild Sweet W^illiam 



F. mamldta is found in rich woods, beside streams, from 

 New Jersey and southward. Flowers, a deep purplish pink, in 

 slender, leafy panicles. Leaves, those above, heart-shaped at 

 base; those below, lance- shaped. Stems, smooth, purple- 

 spotted. 



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F. divaricata bears a cymose cluster of pale-lilac or bluish, 

 delicate flowers. Leaves, oblong to long and slender, the 

 lower i^ inches long. 



Plant, I foot to 18 inches high, found in woods from New York 

 southward to Florida and Arkansas. 



