296 PHLOX FAMILY. 



from a rounded or somewhat lieart-sliaped base; panicle long and narrow, 

 leafy below; calyx teeth less pointed. Cult., and perhaps hybridized 

 with the preceding:, but less frequent in gardens. 



•4- -t- Stems ascendinrj or erect, hut often with a prostrate hnse, l^—S'^ high ; 

 whole plant smooth, not clammy or glandular; Jlou-ers corymhed ; 

 lobes of corolla round and entire. 



P. ov^ta, Linn, (or P. Carolin.v). Leaves varying from lanceolate 

 to ovate, or the upper heart-shaped ; flowers crowded, short-peduncled, 

 pink; calyx teeth acute. Penn. to Ala. 



P. glab^rrima, Linn. Slender ; leaves often linear-lanceolate, 3'-4' 

 long ; liowtT.s fewer and loose, pink or whitish ; calyx teeth sharp- 

 pointed. Va., N. W. and S. 



•»--(-•*- Flowering stems ascendiu'i, or in (he Jirst erect, low. terminated 

 by a loose corymb, lohich is clatninn-puhescetd more or less, as well as 

 the thinnish leaves; flowers mostly pediceled ; calyx teeth very slender ; 

 floicers late spring. 



P. pil63a, Linn. Mostly hairy; stems erect 1° or so high; leaves 

 lanceolate or linear, and tapering to a point (l'-2.]' long) ; flowers loose, 

 with spreading, awn-pointed calyx teeth ; lobes of pink, rose, or rarely 

 white corolla obovate and entire. N. J., AV. and IS. ; variable. 



P. amoena, Sims. Pubescent, spreading from the base, ()'-l° high ; 

 leaves lanceolate, or broadly oblong or ovate on sterile shoots, short ; 

 flowers in a crowded, leafy-bracted corymb, with straight, hardly awn- 

 pointed calyx teeth ; corolla purple, pink, or nearly white. Barrens, 

 Va. and Ky., S. 



P. divaricdta, Linn. Moist woods from N. Y., W. and S.; soft-pubes- 

 cent ; stems loosely spreading ; leaves ovate-oblong or broad-lanceolate 

 (l'-2' long) ; flowers loosely corymbed and peduncled ; corolla large, 

 pale lilac, bluish, or lead-colored, the lobes wedge-obovate or commonly 

 inversely heart-shaped and as long as the tube. Sometimes called VVii.u 

 Sweet William. 



P. reptans, Michx. Spreading by long runners, which bear round- 

 obovate, often smoothi-sh leaves, those of the low flowering stems oblong 

 or ovate (about I' long) ; flowers few but crowded ; lobes of the deep 

 pink-purple corolla round-obovate, large (1' broad). Penn. and Ky., S. 



H- H- +- -t- Stems all diffuse and branching (but not creeping), rising 

 .3'-(j' ; flowers peditncled and scattered or in small loose clusters. 



P. bifida, Beck. Minutely pubescent; leaves V-2' long and linear, 

 nearly glabrous ; corolla violet-jmrple, the lobes 2- or 3-cleft to or below 

 the middle, the divisions nearlv linear and diverging. Prairies, 111., Mo. 

 Cult. 



H_ H_ ._ H_ ^_ Stems creeping and txfted, rising little above the ground, 

 almost woody, persistent, as are the rigid and crowded glandular-pubes- 

 cent leaves; flowers few in the depressed clusters, in early .spring. 



P. subulita. Linn. Ground or Moss Pink. Wild on rocky hills 

 W. and S. of N. Eng., and common in gardens, forming broad mats ; 

 leaves awl-shaped or lanceolate, at most ^' long; corolla pink-purple, 

 rose with a darker eye, or varying to white, the wedge-obovate lobes 

 generally notched at the end. /ariable. 



* * ® Cultivated fur ornament from Texas ; flowers all summer. 



P. Drummdndii, Hook. From this come all the annual phloxes of the 

 gardens ; rather low, l)ranching and spreading, .somewhat clammy-pubes- 

 cent, with cm-ymbs of purple, crimson, rose-colored, buff and white, 

 showy flowers. There are forms with fringed corollas. 



