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late, one-third to i inch long, stiff and clustered at tlie nodes of tlie stems, 

 their margins ciUate. Flowers on slender stalks, clustered in simple few- 

 fiowered cymes; calyx teeth about as long as the cahoc tube; corolla pink, 

 purplish with a dai-ker eye, or sometimes white, about one-half to two- 

 thirds of an inch broad, the five lobes of the corolla entire or often slightly 

 indented at the apex. 



In dry, sandy or rocky soil of fields, banks and open woods, southern 

 New York to Michigan, south to Florida and Kentucky. Flowering in 

 May and June. Occasionally cultivated farther north. 



The Wild Sweet Wilham (Phlox m a c u 1 a t a Linnaeus) is found 

 wild from southern New York southward, and frequently escaped from 

 cultivation farther northward. Its stems are usually spotted with purple; 

 leaves lanceolate or the upper ones ovate-lanceolate; flowers pink or 

 purple, rarely white, in compact clusters forming a many-flowered terminal 

 inflorescence, 4 to lo inches long. A race with white flowers and unspotted 

 stems is known as Phlox maculata var. Candida Michaux (P. 

 suaveolens Alton) . 



The Downy or Prairie Phlox (Phlox pilosa Linnaeus) occurs 

 rather locally in New York. It is softly liairy with linear or lanceolate, 

 long-pointed leaves and pink, purple or white flowers forming a terminal 

 cluster. 



The Wild Bkie Phlox (Phlox divaricata Linnaeus) (Figure 

 XXVI) is frequent in some localities. It is finely viscid-pubescent, the 

 stems rooting at the nodes near the base, but the tops erect; leaves oblong 

 or ovate, those on the flowering stems lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; 

 flowers fragrant, bluish, the corolla lobes deeply notched at the ends. 



American Jacob's Ladder 



Polcinoiiiiin! vaii-bniiitiac Britton 



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Stems herbaceous, erect, smooth below, a little pubescent above, 

 I to 3 feet tall, from a stout, horizontal, perennial rootstock clothed with 

 numerous fibrous roots. Basal leaves 6 to 12 inches long, odd-pinnate, 

 with eleven to seventeen sessile, ovate-lanceolate, pointed leaflets, one-half 

 to 1 1 inches long; stem leaves and upper leaves with only three to seven 

 leaflets. Flowers bluish purple or blue, three-fourths to i inch broad in 



