PHLOX. 



and more or less fringed with minute bristlinesses. This is a most 

 variable type, though ; Ph. c. rigida has the leaves curving outwards 

 and spiny-pointed ; Ph. c. muscoeides is a quite minute high-alpine, 

 like a hoary small scab of moss, in effect suggesting the domes of 

 Ph. bryoeides, but that the leaves are not arranged in four rows, and 

 are not woolly ; Ph. c. Colvilei is another tiny form with white flowers ; 

 Ph. c. condensate/, has also been ranked by Gray as a variety of Ph. 

 Hoodii, and is specially dense and hoary -green, with overlapping, packed, 

 stiff leaves and white blossoms ; Ph. c. Hendersoni has also the same 

 colour ; whereas in the type the more favoured tone for the ample 

 flowers is a pale blue. 



Ph. canescens is another dense mass, densely woolly-hoary, with 

 the little fine leaves prickly and recurving. The flowers are white 

 with a yellowish tube. There is a yet thornier variety, Ph. c. spinosa. 



Ph. car nea is Ph. Carolina, Sweet. It is a giant attaining two and 

 a half feet, minutely roughish all over, and suggesting that it is a hybrid 

 between Ph. maculata and Ph. glaberrima. The stars in their clusters 

 are pinkish mauve. 



Ph. Carolina, Sweet. See above. 



Ph. Carolina, of gardens, is Ph. ovata, q.v. 



Ph. cemua is only some 2 inches or perhaps half a foot high. The 

 lower part of the stem is purple, and the growth is more or less smooth 

 all over, except between the pairs of leaves, which are very narrow 

 indeed, and outspreading. The flowers are a trifle inclined to nod 

 upon their slender footstalks, and are white with a tinge of purple. 



Ph. Criterion has come and passed, like the memory of a beautiful 

 dream. It was a treasure of garden origin, which was nothing more 

 nor less than P. Drummondii ; but it was perennial. 



Ph. dasyphylla makes a woody mass of densely leafy branches some 

 3 inches or half a foot long, prostrate or ascending, with pink flowers 

 gathered in groups of three or four, at the ends of the hairy-leaved 

 shoots, in the shape of expanding trumpets or funnels. 



Ph. densa again calls out our warmest longings. For it may pos- 

 sibly be a variety of Ph. austromontana, but with pink blossoms very 

 much more numerous, and sheeted over a very much closer tight 

 tuffet of a couple of mches or so, in an even greater profusion. But 

 it also has a longer style. From Frisco of Colorado, Walnut Canon, 

 Slate Mountain, &c, at nearly 8000 feet, with a flat smooth form, 

 Ph. d. depressa, from the wet plains. 



Ph. detonsa. See under Ph. pilosa. 



Ph. divaricata makes its own bush, and there is no need to adver- 

 tise its stately June-borne profusion of royal lavender-blue flowers 



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