LIDRARY 

 NEW yor: 



BOTANICA' 



NAT. ORDER. 



Polcmoniacece. 



PHLOX DEUMMONDI. ME. DRUMMOND'S PHLOX. 



Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, deeply five-cleft. Segments, acute. Corolla, 

 salver-shaped, with a sub-cylindrical tube, a little cui-ved. Star 

 mens, five, unequal, inserted in the tube above the middle. F'd- 

 aments, filiform. Anthers, sagitate. Cajjsule, roundish. 



Spe. CItar. Stems, erect, simple at the bottom. Leaves, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, lower ones opposite, upper ones alternate. Panicle, 

 corymbose. 



Phlox Drdmmondi has a small and decidedly annual 7-oot. 

 Stem a foot or more high, simple or branched, clothed with long pa- 

 tent hairs ; leaves below opposite and oblong, spathulate above, alter- 

 nate, oblong, acute, aristate, somewhat cordate at the base, sometimes 

 even auriculated and semiamplexicaul, ciliated at the margin, and 

 slightly hairy, but chiefly so beneath, all of them of a pale green color; 

 corymbs tenninal, of several large and very showy flowers ; pedicels 

 short, and as well as the calyx and subulate segments, but united by 

 a pellucid membrane for one-half of their length into a tube ; the limb 

 reflexed corolla, hypocrateriform with the tube, about thrice as long as 

 the tube of the calyx, and very hairy,- with the hairs patent ; the limb 

 of five spreading, obovate, approaching to rhomboidal ; lobes pale, pur- 

 Ci pie without, within, or on the upper side, of a brilliant rose-red or pur- 

 22 pie, vaiying exceedingly on different individuals in intensity, and in 

 In. tlieir more or less red or purple tinge ; the eye generally of an exceed- 

 ingly deep crimson ; stamens completely within the tube, but at diffei- 



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