POLfiMONIACE^-PHLOX FAMILY 



PERENNIAL PHLOX 



Phlox faniculita. 



Phlox, Greek, flame; anciently applied to Lychnis and transferred 

 to these plants. 



A perennial, bearing very showy flowers, growing in clumps and 

 found in woods and thickets from Pennsylvania, south and west. Com- 

 mon in gardens. Summer. 



Stem.— Stont, simple, two to four feet high. 



Leaves. — Opposite and sessile, oblong-lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed, tapering at base, heart-shaped at base, entire. 



Flowers.— In ample panicles, somewhat pyramidal, pink-purple, 

 varying to white. 



Calyx. — Tubular, angular, five-lobed. 



Corolla. — Salver-shaped with a long tube and a spreading five-lobed 

 border. 



Stamens. — Five, included, and unequally inserted in the corolla-tube. 



Ovary. — Three-celled; style slender; stigma three-cleft. 



Capsule. — Three-celled, several-seeded. 



The race of Garden Phloxes has been developed from the wild 

 species of our own fields and constitutes one of the most bril- 

 liant flower groups in cultivation. 



Phlox paniculata has undoubtedly been the basic form, modi- 

 fied more or less by Phlox maculhta, and Phlox Drummdndii, 

 both native to the United States. In some forms the terminal 

 panicles have become a foot long and densely filled with flowers. 

 The colors range the chord of red, from carmine to crimson, from 

 purple to pink, from coral to salmon; light-eyed, dark-eyed, or no- 

 eyed at all; and a plantation in full bloom is a dazzling sight. 



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