378 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



purplish. Leaves, round, fleshy, opposite, wedge-shaped, the 

 lower degenerating into scales. Sepals, 2, leaf-like. Corolla, 

 tubular, 4-cleft, bell-shaped. Stamens, 4, alternate with the 

 lobes of the corolla. Style, short, with a 2-divided stigma. 



A low, 3 to 8 inches high, generally simple stem, purplish 

 green in color, with nearly sessile flowers in groups of threes, 

 or single in the leaf-axils, or terminating the stem. 



A rather curious plant, with thick, roundish leaves, found in 

 New Jersey, southward to Georgia, and westward. 



51. Creeping Phlox 



Phlox ripians. — Family, Polemonium. Color, deep crim- 

 son. Leaves, evergreen, opposite, sessile, ovate, t)lunt at apex, 

 I inch long or less. Time, May, June. 



Calyx teeth, 5, long, narrow. Corolla, salver-form, the tube 

 long, the border 5-divided. Stamens, 5. Style, 3-lobed. Cap- 

 sule, 3-ceIled. Stem, 4 to 8 inches tall, from a rootstock. The 

 terminal bud of this ascends and forms a cyme of few flowers, 

 followed by another shoot bearing only leaves. 



Among the Alleghanies, from Pennsylvania to Georgia. 



52. Wild Sweet William 



P. maculata is found in rich woods, beside streams, from 

 New Jersey and southward. Flowers, a deep purplish pink, in 

 slender, leafy panicles. Leaves, those above, heart-shaped at 

 base ; those below, lance - shaped. Stems, smooth, purple- 

 spotted. 



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P. divaricdta bears a cymose cluster of pale-lilac or bluish, 

 delicate flowers. Leaves, oblong to long and slender, the 

 lower 1^ inches long. 



Plant, I foot to 18 inches high, found in woods from New York 

 southward to Florida and Arkansas. 



