296 PHLOX FAMILY. 



from a rounded or somewhat heart-shaped base ; panicle long and narrow, 

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

 with the preceding, but less frequent in gardens. 



H- - Stems ascending or erect, but often with a prostrate base, l-3 high ; 

 whole plant smooth, not clammy or glandular; Jlowers corymbed; 

 lobes of corolla round and entire. 



P. ovata, Linn, (or P. CAROLINA). Leaves varying from lanceolate 

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

 pink ; calyx teeth acute. Penn. to Ala. 



P. glabe'rrima, Linn. Slender ; leaves often linear-lanceolate, 3'-4 f 

 long ; flowers fewer and loose, pink or whitish ; calyx teeth sharp- 

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



H- - t- Flowering stems ascending, or in the first erect, low, terminated 

 by a loose corymb, which is clammy -pubescent more or less, as well as 

 the thinnish leaves / Jlowers mostly pediceled ; calyx teeth very slender ; 

 Jlowers late spring. 



P. pil6sa, Linn. Mostly hairy ; stems erect 1 or so high ; leaves 

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

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

 white corolla obovate and entire. N. J., W. and S. ; variable. 



P. amcena, Sims. Pubescent, spreading from the base, 6'-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. divaricata, 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 WILD 

 SWEET WILLIAM. 



P. r^ptans, Miclix. Spreading by long runners, which bear round- 

 obovate, often smoothish leaves, those of the low flowering stems oblong 

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

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



4_ _ ^_ H_ Stems all diffuse and branching (but not creeping'), rising 

 3'-6' ; flowers peduncled and scattered or in small loose clusters. 



P. bffida, Beck. Minutely pubescent ; leaves l'-2' long and linear, 

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

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

 Cult. 



+- - - -i- - Stems creeping and tufted, rising little above the ground, 

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

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



P. subulata, 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 5 ' long ; corolla pink -purple, 

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

 generally notched at the end. /ariable. 



* * Cultivated for ornament from Texas ; flowers all summer. 



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

 gardens ; rather low, branching and spreading, somewhat clammy-pubes- 

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

 showy flowers. There are forms with fringed corollas. 



