144 BRECK'S BOOK OF FLOWERS. 



P. picta. White" with red eye. One and a half foot high, 



last of June and July. 



Phlox ceil de lynx, Lynx-eyed, is a beautiful dwarf vari- 

 ety, one foot high, with white flowers and large deep-red eye ; 

 rather delicate in its habits. 



Phlox Egyptie7ine. This has light lilac flowers shaded with 

 purple, about one and a half foot high, in June and July. 



Phlox fleur --de-Marie. Has fine white flowers, with a dark- 

 red eye ; very showy. 



Phlox almerine. Flowers blush, with a small red eye. 



Phlox keermisina alba. Flowers white, with purple eye, 

 arranged in loose pyramidal panicles of great beauty ; in July 



two feet high. 



Phlox meechantea speciosa. Corolla white, beautifully tinted 

 with rose. Three feet high in July. 



CLASS III. FLOWERING THE LAST OF JULY, AUGUST AND SEP- 

 TEMBER. 



Most of the Phloxes under this head are tall-growing sorts, 

 from three to four feet high, with their flowers in graceful py- 

 ramidal corymbs. 



Phlox pyramidalis alba, and purpurca, P. acuminata, P. 

 paniculata, and other old sorts, now discarded, were proba- 

 bly the parents of the new varieties in this class, of which, 

 Phlox Breckii, raised by the writer, is considered one of the 

 very best late-flowering sorts cultivated. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in August and September, on stems four to six feet 

 high, on long pyramidal dense spikes. The corolla circular, 

 light-purple, with a white eye. The foliage, graceful, lance- 

 olate acuminate spatulate ; the upper leaves very much undu- 

 lated. 



Phlox Charles. A new white variety, with pink eye ; flow- 

 ers in pyramidal corymbs ; one and a half to two feet high in 

 July and August. 



Phlox Wilderii. A fine seedling, with deep-red flowers, 



