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PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL, 187 
WILD PHLOX. 
Phlox divaricata. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Polemontum. Pate lilac or Slightly fragrant New York west- April, May. 
blue. ward and southward. 
Flowers: large, over an inch broad; terminal, in loose cymose clusters. 
Calyx: of five pointed sepals. Corolla: salver-form; of five round lobes 
that extend into aslender tube, and have an eye of a darker colour. Stamens: 
five; unequal, in the tube of the corolla, with deep orange anthers. Pysti/ : 
one; stigma, three-lobed. Leaves: lanceolate; opposite; entire. Stem: a 
toot to eighteen inches high; erect; spreading. 
There is so great a similarity between the wild phlox and 
the cultivated forms of the plant that when we meet it in the 
moist woods we are just a little surprised, and feel inclined to 
ask if it is enjoying its stroll away from the garden. It has 
such a complacent expression, however, that we hesitate and 
pursue our own way feeling sure that if it has strayed away 
from home it will find its way back again, unaided. 
P. maculata, or wild sweet william, as it is commonly known, 
is a purplish-pink variety. Its flowers grow in panicles and the 
leaves are rather heart-shaped at the base. The stem is con- 
spicuously dotted with purple. It grows in rocky ground and 
blooms a little later in the season than the above species. 
GROUND OR MOSS PINK. (Plate XCVI/T) 
Phlox subuldta. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Polemonium, Pink, purple or white. Scentless. New England south- April-June. 
ward and westward. 
Flowers : on pedicels: growing in terminal racemes. Calyx: of five narrow 
lobes. Covol/a: with five obovate lobes, notched at the apex. Stamens : five, 
unequal, in the throat of the corolla. /vst/: one; stigma, three-lobed. 
Leaves : scattered ; lanceolate ; pubescent. Svem: creeping; rising slightly 
from the ground. 
It may be imagined how lovely is the hillside where this 
little plant spreads a carpet of its soft bloom. The mingling of 
the many colours and the dark eyes that peep out coquettishly 
seem as though they were coaxing one to stop and play with 
them awhile. 
The plant requires little moisture, and in a time of a 
