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had a concolored airopurpurea at the start; he had a white-eyed 
one also ‘and it looks as though a recombination had been effected 
through hybridizing. Investigations by the writer have shown 
that a peculiar and characteristic whit te eye on a flower of a 
simply resrangements of colors or patterns known before, 
cannot as yet s 
Scheidweiler a d’ Horticulture ean p. 367, 1847) 
summarizes briefly the results of crossing alba and a red variety. 
He says he obtained various white-eyed rae The writer 
gets no such result with odern “alba"’ and red varieties. 
The only other report oss bree: en varieties of 
u 
were requested to report on what they had obtained on growing 
the seed. 
e hybridization work of Scheidweiler, Heinemann, and 
Halsted just summarized, was done with varieties of the single 
annual species, Phlox Drummondii. This species was, however, 
only a short time in cultivation when attempts were made to 
hybridize it with the longer known perennial species of Phlox. 
only two such interspecific hybrids is there reference (Journal 
Homa Pratique 6: 161, and Gartenflora 2: 220 and 7: 
35). One, Phlox ean is described as probably a 
eae of Phlox Drummondii and the well-known Van Houtle 
Seeds of Leopold ana did not always give afore that 
he Ox 
distinct species of the genus Phlox, which implies that it must 
come true through seed. It is without doubt a hybrid between 
Phlox Drummondii and a perennial species. 
