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varied so that they presented many regular and pleasing figures. 
One variety, then called Phlox Drummondii lilacine, had a large 
and complex eye, the innermost part of which was a white ring; 
the latter was skirted by two rods of blue on each corolla-lobe, 
radially arranged; an arch of two white loops on each lobe, 
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star-like “eye” with ten Dienst markings at its center, sym- 
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growers eppareunities for obtaining new varieties through 
selection. 
Decaisne, in the Revue Horticole for 1851, alludes to the large 
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heritability, he said that the varieties abiaited up to that time 
id not invariably come true to type. 
Varieties with streaked or flaked flowers began with the ap- 
pearance of Phlox Drummondii Mayi variegata, described in 
1852 in the Journal d’Horticulture Pratique (page 235). The 
flower had a red “eye’’ or center and white blades with large 
streaks of a reddish ae The variety with flaked flowers now 
known as Radowiizii was first mentioned and described in 
n the Ginn’ for 1865 (pp. 225, 226) occurs what is doubt- 
less first allusion to a chamois-rose variety as a “‘lachsfar- 
benen”’ phlox is there mentioned. 
Of the early notices, one of the most interesting is found in the 
Revue Horticole for 1868 (p. 191). A colored plate shows six 
varieties and the text describes three others. It is expressly 
