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cure a handful of soil, we are attracted by the gray-green cush- 

 ions forming the foliage. These are usually from about six 

 inches to a foot across, and about the first week in August we 

 find them covered with small snow white blossoms. 



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Figure 18. Phlox dejecta Nelson and Kennedy 



The plant was described as a new species when in all prob- 

 ability Brand's monogroph of the Polemoniaceae for the Pfian- 

 zenreich had gone to press, as it is not mentioned in that work. 

 Broadly considered, it would come under Phlox caespitosa^ and 

 in the division without internodes and with acerose leaves. 

 Brand treats of two varieties with these characters, co?ideiisata 

 and Hendej'sonii. That it is not the same as the former we feel 

 fairly certain, as that grew near it on the same mountain, and 

 from the figure of the latter on page 82 of the Pflanzenreich, we 

 do not believe that it can be placed with that variety. Whether 

 it is placed as a new species or as a variety of caespitosa is of lit- 

 tle consequence. What the writer desires to call attention to is 

 that it is the most truly alpine of all the Phloxes, and should be 

 in everv collection. 



