PHLOX FAMILY. Polemoniaceae. 
Charming little flowers, exceedingly 
pint delicate and gay. The stem is usually 
Fringed Gilia : 
Linénthus dian. OXly a few inches tall, the leaves are very 
thiflorus (Gilia) | Narrow, and the flowers are three-quarters 
Pink of an inch across, with bright pink petals, 
Serine prettily toothed at the tips, shading to 
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white and yellow in the center and often 
with a purple ring in the throat. This is common in 
southern California and often grows in quantities, sprink- 
ling the ground with its bright little flowers. 
ts bes This is a few inches tall, with purplish 
Linénthus lini- . a 
fldrus (Gilia) stems, which are so very slender and wiry 
White that they look hardly thicker than hairs 
Spring, summer and the flowers seem to be hovering in the 
cies air, giving an exceedingly pretty and deli- 
cate effect. The leaves are stiff and dark green and the 
flowers are half an inch or more across, with a yellowish 
tube and white petals, delicately veined with blue, with a 
pale yellow pistil and orange anthers. This grows on the 
dry tops of mesas, in southern California. 
There are many kinds of Phlox, natives of North 
America and Asia, usually perennials, the leaves toothless, 
mostly opposite, at least the lower ones; the calyx five- 
ribbed; the corolla salver-form; the stamens inserted very 
unequally in the tube and not protruding; the seeds not 
mucilaginous. The salver-form corolla and the seeds not — 
being mucilaginous distinguishes Phlox from Gilia. The 
name is from the Greek, meaning ‘‘flame.”’ 
A charming little plant, with woody 
Alpine Phlox : : 
Sa Douglésii Stemsa few inches tall and partly creeping 
White, lilac - along the ground, densely crowded with 
Summer numerous needle-like leaves, forming dull 
Northwest, etc. 5 reen, cushion-like mats, sometimes over a 
foot across and suggesting some sort of prickly moss. 
These prickly cushions are sprinkled thickly all over with 
pretty lilac flowers and the effect is most attractive. The 
flowers vary in tint from white to pink and purple and are 
nearly three-quarters of an inch across and slightly sweet- 
scented. The tube is longer than the hairy calyx, and the 
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