PHLOX. 



Ph. latifolia. It comes from the open woods of Alabama and Pennsyl- 

 vania, making no bones about being happy in our gardens, where it 

 develops its character freely — a low, creeping, prostrate species, with 

 its shoots set with oval or oblong green leaves, of which the lowest have 

 footstalks of their own. The blossoms are borne in terminal clusters 

 at the top of the slender foot-high stems, and are of a. magenta-rose, 

 rather crowded, and poorly proportioned, one of the forms (once called 

 Ph. Carolina), approaching almost to Ph. glaberrima. It is not among 

 the most attractive of its race. 



Ph. paniculata has no place in the rock-garden, for the wild forms 

 are too ugly in their colours, and the garden ones too artificial in their 

 gorgeousness for admission even to the bog. 



Ph. pilosa belongs to the dry woods and coppices of the Atlantic 

 regions. It is a stragglingly erect grower of a foot or 18 inches, all 

 sparsely hairy (except in its glabrate variety, Ph. p. detonsa), and its 

 stems are set here and there with pairs of long-pointed leaves. The 

 flowers are of purplish-rose, in loose clusters, profusely produced at 

 the ends of the stems and of all their branches, and with long articulate 

 hairs, but no glands, on the calyces and pedicels of the blossoms. It 

 is a strong contrast to P. divaricata, much less pleasant in the colour, 

 and taking deeper shades of carmine and purple, often to be seen in 

 catalogues as "Purple Queen," "Brilliant," "Splendens," and so 

 forth ; all the improvements, as well as the type, liking best a par- 

 ticularly sunny exposure, with particularly good, light and sandy 

 soil. 



Ph. pinifolia is a dwarfish tuffet, made up of very many, very leafy 

 shoots, thick with pairs of opposite little prickly leaves. The blooms 

 emerge from the tips of these shoots, and are gradually-expanding 

 funnels of about an inch, some one to three in a cluster, set in calyces 

 whose lobes wear a beard of wool. (Oregon.) 



Ph. procumbens, Lehm., Sweet, Loddiges and gardens, is a hybrid 

 between Ph. pilosaxPh. subulata. It is a weakly thing, hairy in all 

 its parts, with flopping or ascending stems of 10 inches or so, and 

 clustered lax stars of rosy-mauve. 



Ph. procumbens (A. Gray), is a hybrid of Ph. amoenaxPh. subulata, 

 but standing so close to Ph. amoena that most recent authorities take 

 it as a synonym. See under Ph. amoena. 



Ph. puberula. See under Ph. Stansburyi. 



Ph. reptans is Ph. stolonifera, q.v. 



Ph. Bichardsoni dwells in the gaunt lands of the far North, where 

 it may be seen beside the ice-lakes of Arctic America — a tiny close 

 mass of shoots forming a hedgehog of erect, incurving, prickly foliage, 



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