NAT. ORDER. 
PolemoniacecB. 
PHLOX DEUMMONDI. MR. DRUMMOND'S PHLOX. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen.. Char. Calyx, deeply five-cleft. Segments, acute. Corolla, 
salver-shaped, with a sub-cylindrical tube, a little curved. SlOr- 
mens, five, unequal, inserted in the tube above the middle. Fil- 
aments, filiform. Anthers, sag-itate. Capsule, roundish. 
Spe. Cliar. Stems, erect, simple at the bottom. Leanes, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, lower ones opposite, upper ones alternate. Panicle, 
corymbose. 
Phlox Drummondi has a small and decidedly annual root. 
Stem a foot or more high, simple or branched, clothed with long pa- 
tent hairs ; leaves below opposite and oblong, spathulate above, alter- 
nate, oblong, acute, aristate, somewhat cordate at the base, sometimes 
even auriculated and semiamplexicaul, ciliated at the margin, and 
slightly hairy, but chiefly so beneath, all of them of a pale green color; 
corymbs terminal, of several large and very showy flowers ; ijedicels 
short, and as well as the calyx and subulate segments, but united by 
a pellucid membrane for one-half of their length into a tube ; the limb 
reflexed corolla, hypocrateriform with the tube, about thrice as long as 
the tube of the calyx, and very hairy, with the hairs patent ; the limh 
of five spreading, obovate, approaching to rhomboidal ; lobes pale, pur- 
ple without, within, or on the upper side, of a brilliant rose-red or pur- 
ple, varying exceedingly on different individuals in intensity, and in 
tlieir more or less red or puiple tinge ; the eye generally of an exceed- 
ingly deep crimson ; stamens completely within the tube, but at differ- 
VoL. IV. — 7. 
