128 PENTAXDRIA MONOGYMA 



<wrved. Stamens very unequal, inserted in the tube of the corolla 

 above the middle. Stigma 3-cleft, (/<//> wfr roundish-ovoid, 9-ceUed| 

 cells i -seeded. 



fferb*ceou$: leaves mostly opposite and sessile, simple; flowers terminal, more 

 or less corymbose-paniculate j calyx-segments nearly subulate. AW. Ord. 200. 



LhtdL POLIiMOMACK.K. 



1. P. tfAcrr.ATi, /,. Stera erect, roughish, spotted ; leaves ovate-Ian* 

 ceolate, acute or acuminate, smooth; panicle oblong, matiy-flowcred ; 

 calyx-segments lanceolate, a litle recurved. JSeck, Hot* p. 246. Ice>, 

 Bart. . hi. 2. fad, 69. 

 Spotted Phlox. Fi/fyc) — Wild Sweet William, 



Root perennial. Stem ab»ut 2 feet high, mostly simple, roughish-puljesceut 

 above, sp M ed with dark purple. Leaves 1 to 5 inclu s Ion :. and one f >urth of an 

 inch to an inch wide ; t ho upper ones short, lance-ovate, acuminate, bet ominj Ion- 

 jer and more lanceolate below, and tapering to a lung nan | nt;th( I 

 ones narrow, and nearly or quite linear; generally all of them opj 

 in Verticils of three). Flowers clustered in pedunculate axillary corymb 

 noar the summit, forming altogether a b n . f oblong panicle ; bracts subulut* -liu- 

 oar, near an inch long. Calyx aualed by 5 promiueni y\\ s, or keels, i rana* 



ccous l . '. ween the ribs ; segments laaceolate, acuminate, the points sprea 

 q i ■;• ht purple ; 1 »besa little rounded; lube nearly an Inch loiij , curved^ 



smooth. Style Glif rm 1 »ng, soin< what persistent. Capsule oboviid, inucronat^ 

 minutely pitted, or rugose-punctate. Seeds lance-oblong. 



Slab. Low swampy grounds, and margins of rivulets ; frequent. Fl. June. FY. Av 



Ols. A sh>wy, beautiful species,— worthy the attention of the Florist; us, in- 

 deed, arc most of the genus. 



2. P, ahistata, JUx. Stem erect, weak, viscid-; rent: leaves 



lance-linear, pubescent ; panicle lax, subfastigiate ; calyx-segments long, 

 slender, acuminate, awnlike; lobes of the corolla entire. JJcck, 

 not. p. 247. 



P. pilosa ! Willd. S/>. I. p. 840. Ait. Kev>. I. p. 325. Jfutt. Gen. 1. 

 />. 125. Bart. Phil. I. p. 107. Floral. Cestr. p. 26. Alsol Mr. Am. 

 1. p. 145. Pers. Syn. I. p. 18G. Muhl. CataL p. 21. Purth, Am. 1. 

 p. 150. Ell Sk. 1. p. 247. Eat. .Man. p. 261. 



Awn'Ed Phlox. 



Root perennial. Stem 12 to IS inches highj simple or not unfroquently branch- 

 ed, slender, v ill. pe-pubescent ami ftomev* hal \ Isold, especially at summit. Leaves 

 •1 to 2 inches lorn;, and one eighth t » one fourth of an inch wide, lance-linear, acut , 

 (sometimes those atave wider at Utse, and ovate-lanceolate). Flowers terminal 

 loosely corymbose, often on spreading branches; peduncles villous, one fourth U 

 one third of an inch long; bracts subulate, or lanceolate, ;i! out half an inch Ion 

 Calyx vill se ; segments suUul ue, very slender, the p >Iatfl a li 1 .tie spreading. Co- 

 rolla pale red, sometimes nearly while ; tube three fourths of an inch b>ng, nearly 

 Straight, pubescent. Style short; stigma 3-cleft ; segments linear, longer than the 

 style. 



■Hob. Borders of woodlands and thickets : frequent. Fl. May. Ft. July. 



Obs. This is P. pilosa, of FloruL Cestrica; and also, I apprehend, t.f the au- 

 thors above cited. Dr. Aikin (fide Eaton) is of opinion it is synonymous with V, 

 ijlvaricala; but it is surely, I think, distinct from our plant of that name. 



