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681. Prairie Phlox. Phlox* pilosa. Not unlike No. 680, but 

 lower, and with foliage and flowers covered with, usually 

 sticky, hairs. Leaves more slender than in No. 680. In dry 

 places, Ontario, Conn., New Jersey and Florida, not known 

 from New York, but reported westward. May. 



682. Wild Blue Phlox. Phlox divaricata. A very showy, 

 woodland semi-prostrate, herb, with finely hairy, somewhat 

 sticky stems and foliage. Leaves broadest towards the base, 

 1-2 in. long. Flowers pale lavender-blue. Corolla with a long 

 narrow tube, the five spreading lobes usually notched. Quebec 

 and Ontario to Penn., Florida and westward. May. Fig. 682. 



683. GERARDIA. AGALINIS. (GERARDIA.) 



Slender, erect, mostly branched herbs with opposite, stalk- 

 less, toothless leaves that are narrowly linear, and often not 

 j/s in. wide, and never more than j4 in., in those bclow. 

 Flowers in rather sparse clusters, or solitary, pinkish-purple 

 in all those below. Corolla funnel-shaped, very slightly un- 

 symmetrical. Fruit a many seeded dry pod. {Scrophular- 

 iaceae.) See No. 781. There are nearly a dozen species, 

 mostly separated on technical characters, the four below thus : 



Flowers very short stalked. 

 Flowers an inch long or longer Purple Gcrardia no. 684 



