Vol. III.] 



PHLOX FAMILY 



8. Phlox reptans Michx. Crawling 

 Phlox. (Fig. 2975.) 



Phlox repians Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 145. 1803. 



Hirsute or pubescent; stems slender, diffuse, 

 producing sterile creeping leafy shoots from 

 the base. Leaves of the sterile shoots obovate, 

 obtuse at the apex, i / ~3 / long, narrowed at the 

 base into petioles; flowering stems 4 / -8 / high, 

 their leaves oblong or lanceolate, acute or ob- 

 tuse, smaller; flowers in a simple or barely.com- 

 pound cyme, slender-pedicelled; calyx-teeth 

 linear-subulate, as long as the tube or longer; 

 corolla pink, purple, or violet, its lobes rounded, 

 mostly entire, about one-half the length of the 

 tube; capsule subglobose, \%. ,f high. 



In woods, Pennsylvania to Georgia and Ken- 

 tucky, mainly in the mountains. Ascends to 4500 

 ft. in Virginia. April-June. 



g. Phlox bifida Beck. 



10. Phlox Stellaria A. Gray. 

 Chick weed Phlox. (Fig. 2977.) 



Phlox Stellaria A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 252. 



1870. 



Glabrous or puberulent; stems diffuse, 

 somewhat woody, much branched, the 

 branches nearly erect, 3 / -8 / high. Leaves 

 all linear, or linear-lanceolate, sessile, acute, 

 i / -2 / long, \ f, -\yz ff wide; flowers in simple 

 cymes or solitary in the axils, slender-pedi- 

 celled; calyx-teeth subulate-lanceolate, short- 

 er than the tube; corolla pale blue or nearly 

 white, its lobes cuneate, 2-lobed at the apex, 

 nearly as long as the tube. 



On cliffs, southern Illinois and Kentucky. 

 April-May. 



Cleft Phlox. (Fig. 2976.) 



P. bifida Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. 11: 170. 1826. 

 Puberulent or pubescent; stems diffuse, 

 somewhat woody, much branched, slender, 

 often i long, the branches erect or ascend- 

 ing, 4 / -8 / high. Leaves of sterile shoots 

 linear, sessile, i / -2 / long, \."-2. ff wide, 

 acute, those of flowering branches linear- 

 oblong or lanceolate, much shorter; flowers 

 in simple cymes or solitary in the axils, 

 slender-pedicelled; pedicels 3 // -i2 // long; 

 calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate, somewhat 

 longer than the tube; corolla pale purple, 

 its lobes shorter than the tube, cuneate, 2-3- 

 cleft to about the middle into linear or 

 oblong obtuse diverging segments; capsule 

 oblong-globose, \ ,f -\% f/ high. 



In dry places, Indiana to Tennessee and 

 Michigan. April-June. 



