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MUHLENBERGIA 



A NEW SPECIES OF PHLOX 

 Bv P. Beveridge Kennedy 



While looking over the sheets under the cover of Phlox 

 Douglasii we discovered that those marked Kennedy and Good- 

 ding 82, Mormon mountains, Lincoln county, Nevada, were not 

 that species, and that there were also two different plants on the 

 sheets. 



One of them is undoubtedly P. austromontana Coville, but 

 the other, after much searching in Brand's monograph of the 

 Polemoniaceae, E. Nelson's Revision of the Genus Phlox, and a 

 reading of all the more recently described species, we were un- 

 able to find a place for. 



The two plants grew together, were supposed to be but a 

 single species, and were given the same number. They were 

 abundant on the south slopes of the mountains, while P. Good- 

 dingii, described in Muhlenbergia 3; 141. 1908, prevailed just 

 over the hill on north slopes. The last mentioned is a broad 

 leaved, extremely glandular plant. 



/ Phlox aciculifolia 



A stout-rooted plant with several root-like stems running 

 along the ground, the leafy portion about 8 cm. high: internodes 

 conspicuous, greenish-white, 8 to 10 mm. long: leaves linear, 

 10 to 15 mm. long, le.ss than i mm. wide, with three longitudi- 

 nal grooves on the upper surface, appearing as if four-ribbed, 

 rough pubescent, especially on the under surface, margins in- 

 curved, apex very sharply acicular: calyx tube 4 mm. long> 

 teeth 5 mm. long, minutely and sharply hispid ciliate on the 



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