P H L 



P H L 



at the base, terminating in acute points, deeply 

 crenate on their edges : the flowers of a pale 

 purple colour and hairy : they appear in June 

 and July, and the seeds ripen in September ; 

 soon after which the stalks decay; but the roots 

 abide many years. It is a native of Siberia. 



The seventh species has the stem of the same 

 stature with the ninth, two feet high, upright, 

 herbaceous, four-cornered, blunt : the leaves 

 siib-tomentose, marked with lines, petioled, re- 

 motely subserrate, longer than the internodcs : 

 the whorls sub-terminating with an awl-shaped 

 involucre. 



It is biennial, and a native of the East Indies, 

 flowering from June to October. 



The eigluh has the stem simple, upright, 

 quadrangular, blunt: the leaves deeply and 

 somewhat bluntly serrate, green : the petioles 

 the length of the leaves: the whorls few towards 

 the lop, globular, many-flowered : the calyx 

 somewhat hairy, cylindrical, with a spiny and 

 very sharp border, the upper tooth twice as 

 large as the rest, and from four to six small 

 teeth : the corolla villose, of the same appear- 

 ance and colour with that of the ninth sort, but 

 only one-third of the size ; upper lip roundish, 

 long, emarginate ; lower short, trifid, even: in- 

 volucre awl-shaped, reflex : filaments cohering 

 in pairs : stigmas two, filiform, the upper shorter 

 by half than the under. It is annual, and a na- 

 tive of the East Indies, flowering here in September 

 and October. 



The ninth species is a very handsome plant 

 when it is in flower. It rises v^'ith a shrubby 

 stalk seven or eight feet high, sending out seve- 

 ral branches, which are four-cornered: the 

 leaves are about three inches long, and half an 

 inch broad, hairy on their upper side, and vein- 

 ed on their under : the branches have each two 

 or three sessile whorls of flowers towards the 

 ends : the corolla is of a tawny or golden co- 

 lour, and shining like silk ; upper lip long, to- 

 mentose, ciliate, quite entire; lower lip short, 

 naked, membranaceous; the lateral segments 

 reflex, dry, the intermediate one trifid, emargi- 

 nate in the middle: the filaments snow-white: 

 the anthers two-lobed, yellow, havinc; globular 

 meal sprinkled over them only at the base. It 

 is a native of the Cape, flowering from October 

 ^o December. 



There is a variety of it with variegated leaves. 



The tenth has the stalk shrubby, s([uarc, three 

 feet high : branches four-cornered, in pairs : 

 leaves rough on their upper side, veined, and 

 pale green on their under: the corolla neither 

 so long nor sodeep coloured as in the ninth sort, 

 to whicli it bears much resemblance, and is near- 

 ly allied ; but the leaves are ovate, not lanceo- 

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late, and more tomentose : it differs materially 

 from it by its awned calyxes : it agrees more 

 with the eighth, but dift'ers from it in havin"' a 

 shrubby stalk ; small, blunt, more compact 

 leaves; and the neck of the calyx rough-haired. 

 It is a native of the Cape, flowering in June 

 and July. 



Culture. — All these plants may be increased 

 by layers and cuttings. 



The two first hardy sorts in particular crow 

 freely by the first method : the young branches 

 should be chosen, and laitl in the common w-ay, 

 any, time in autunm, spring, or sunmier ; when 

 they readily strike root, and commence proper 

 plants by the autunm following, when they 

 should be planted where they are to grow. 



The cuttings should be made from the youn*^ 

 shoots in spring and summer, being planted in 

 a shady border, giving plenty of water in dry 

 weather; when many of them will lake root, 

 and make good plants by the autumn following. 

 The cuttings of the green-house kinds should, 

 when made in the spring, be planted in pots, in 

 order to be continued in shelter until May ; or 

 if the pots be plunged in a hot-bed, it will 

 greatly forward their rooting; though, when 

 the young shoots are planted in June or July, 

 in a bed or border of rich earth, many of them 

 take root, but may be nmch forwarded if cover- 

 ed down close with hand glasses, removing the 

 glasses when the cuttings begin to shoot. 



The fifth n)ay likewise be increased by slips 

 planted at the same time; and the sixth by off"- 

 sets. The seventh should be preserved in the 

 bark stove. 



They are all very ornarnental plants in the 

 borders, green-house, and stove collections, ac- 

 cording to the kinds, 



PHLOX, a genus comprising plants of the 

 herbaceous, fibrous-rooted, flowery, perennial 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 Monogynla, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Rolacece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, cylindrical, ten-cornered, 

 five-toothed, acute, permanent : the corolla 

 one-petalled, salver-shaped : tube cylindrical, 

 longer than the calyx, narrower below, cun'ed 

 in : border flat, five-parted : segments equal,, 

 blunt, shorter than the tube : the stamina have 

 five filaments, within the tube of the corolla, 

 two longer, one shorter : anthers in the throat 

 of the corolla : the pistillum is a conical 

 germ : style filiform, the length of the stamens : 

 stigma trifid, acute: the periearj)iuni is an ovate 

 capsule, three-cornered, three-celled, three-valv- 

 ed : the seeds solitary, ovate. 



