PHLOX. 



of value, tall and erect, with bunches of bloom too small for the long 

 narrow pairs of leaves that enclose them, and continue in longer and 

 longer pairs down the stem. 



Ph. glaberrima stands tall and erect, with long and very narrow 

 leaves, and rose -pinky flowers in clusters at the top of the stems, with 

 specially sharp long lobes to their calyces, but otherwise lacking in 

 notable attraction ; and the habit of its growth shares the faults of 

 the last species. There is a variety, Ph. g. suffruticosa, of this. 



Ph. glabrata is another minute, lovely, high-alpine tuffet, neat and 

 tight, with the leaves closely overlapping, and packed down on the 

 shoots, at the end of each of which peers forth a rounded white flower, 

 sitting close to the mass, and rather longer in the tube (which is usually 

 more or less shorter than the length of the calyx) than in Ph. Hoodii. 



Ph. gladiiformis from the Alps by Cedar City in Utah, is also a small 

 cushion, but woolly, with the leaves very tightly tiled and serried on 

 the tiny shoots. The flowers are white, protruding from the mass, 

 each by itself, and hairy on the outside of the tube. 



Ph. glandulosa stands quite near to Ph. paniculata, but the blossoms 

 are smooth and bald in the throat. 



Ph. hirsuta is a hybrid from Siskiyou, between Ph. Stansburyi and 

 Ph. speciosa. 



Ph. Hoodii should much resent the way its name is now being taken 

 in vain by nice little ordinary Gilia pungeris, a pretty light spiculous 

 bush in its way, but by no means worthy to usurp the name and the 

 prices that rightly belong to one of the neatest, smallest, densest, and 

 most charming of the cushion Flames, a plant of woody base, intri- 

 cately branched and very compac t , and massed with white stars. From 

 the high plains and foothills of the Central Rockies. 



Ph. Kelseyi is a beautiful, cosily spreading mat of 16 inches wide 

 or less, made up of thickly-leafy shoots, spreading and cushiony. The 

 narrow neat foliage is smooth and green and spiny, white-margined, 

 and rolled over at the edge. The flowers are of a lovely bright lilac- 

 blue, and broad in the lobe ; almost sessile in their multitudes over the 

 mat. There are local varieties of this, too — Ph. K. costata,, Ph. K. col- 

 Una, and the charmingly suggestive Ph. K. diapensioeides. 



Ph. lanata comes from the Stems Mountains of Oregon, &c, and is 

 a specially charming, white-woolled tight tuft of 2 or 3 inches, set all 

 over with big stars of the most brilliant purple. 



Ph. longifolia lives in the sandy places of the Pacific Coast Alps, 

 &c. It grows about inches or a foot high, sending up, from the half- 

 woody base, a great number of erect stems, set here and there with 

 pairs of long, pointed, one-nerved leaves (some 2 inches in length), and 



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