58 ' POLEMONIACEAE. Vou. III. 
14. Phlox Britténii Small. Britton’s Phlox. 
Fig. 3467. 
Phiox Brittonitti Small, Bull. Torr. Club 27: 279. 1900. 
Glandular-pilose, deep green; stems copiously 
branched, forming wide mats. Leaves numerous, 
with small ones often clustered in the axils of the 
larger, subulate or narrowly linear-subulate, 23’’-5” 
long, ciliate, especially near the base; calyx glandu- 
lar-pubescent like the branches, the lobes subulate, 
about as long as the tube; corolla mainly white, the 
limb 12-13 mm. broad, its lobes cuneate, much shorter 
than the tube, with 2 pale magenta spots at the base, 
cleft by a V-shaped sinus, a minute tooth in each 
sinus; capsule oblong, 2” high. 
On dry mountain slopes, Virginia, West Virginia and 
North Carolina, May. 
15. Phlox bryoides Nutt. Moss Phlox. 
Fig. 3468. 
Phlox bryoides Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila, (II.) 1: 153. 
1848, 
Depressed, shrubby, moss-like, densely branched 
from a deep woody root, forming compact tufts 2’-3’ 
high. Leaves minute (about 1” long), closely im- 
bricated in 4 ranks, copiously white-woolly, triangu- 
lar-lanceolate, pale, acute, the margins infolded; 
flowers solitary and sessile at the ends of the 
branches, about 23” long; tube of the corolla longer 
than the calyx, its lobes broadly cuneate, entire. 
On dry hills, western Nebraska, Colorado and Wyo- 
ming. May-July. 
16. Phlox Hoddii Richards. Hood’s Phlox. 
Fig. 3460. 
Phlox Hoodii Richards, App. Frank. Journ. 733. pl. 28. 
1823. 
Densely tufted and branched from a woody root, 
2'-4' high. Leaves imbricated, erect, rigid, subulate, 
mucronate, somewhat woolly or ciliate, becoming 
glabrate, 2-6” long; flowers solitary and sessile at 
the ends of the branches, about 5” long; calyx-teeth 
lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, longer than the tube; 
tube of the corolla shorter than or equalling the 
WZ , calyx, its lobes obovate, entire. 
2 
2 / aE In dry sandy or rocky soil, North Dakota to Mani- 
Ye rane Alberta, western Nebraska and Wyoming. May- 
uly. 
