PHLOX FAMILY. Polemoniaccac. 



Charming little flowers, exceedingly 



Ground Pink, delicate and gay. The stem is usually 



Fringed Gilia 



Lindnthus dian- Onl y a few mches tall the leaveS are ver y 



thifldrus (Gilia) narrow, and the flowers are three-quarters 

 Pink of an inch across, with bright pink petals, 



? P ^ ng . prettily toothed at the tips, shading to 



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white and yellow in the center and oiten 



with a purple ring in the throat. This is common in 

 southern California and often grows in quantities, sprink- 

 ling the ground with its bright little flowers. 



This is a few inches tall, with purplish 



Ltndnlhus hm- . 



fldrus (Gilia) stems, which are so very slender and wiry 

 White that they look hardly thicker than hairs 



Spring, summer an d the flowers seem to be hovering in the 

 air, giving an exceedingly pretty and deli- 

 cate effect. The leaves are stiff and dark green and the 

 flowers are half an inch or more across, with a yellowish 

 tube and white petals, delicately veined with blue, with a 

 pale yellow pistil and orange anthers. This grows on the 

 dry tops of mesas, in southern California. 



There are many kinds of Phlox, natives of North 

 America and Asia, usually perennials, the leaves toothless, 

 mostly opposite, at least the lower ones; the calyx five- 

 ribbed; the corolla salver-form; the stamens inserted very 

 unequally in the tube and not protruding; the seeds not 

 mucilaginous. The salver-form corolla and the seeds not 

 being mucilaginous distinguishes Phlox from Gilia. The 

 name is from the Greek, meaning "flame." 



A charming little plant, with woody 

 Alpine Phlox 



Phlox Dougidsii stems a few inches tall and partly creeping 

 White, lilac along the ground, densely crowded with 



Summer numerous needle-like leaves, forming dull 



Northwest, etc. gre en, cushion-like mats, sometimes over a 

 foot across and suggesting some sort of prickly moss. 

 These prickly cushions are sprinkled thickly all over with 

 pretty lilac flowers and the effect is most attractive. The 

 flowers vary in tint from white to pink and purple and are 

 nearly three-quarters of an inch across and slightly sweet- 

 scented. The tube is longer than the hairy calyx, and the 



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