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PHLOX COLD RYAN A. 
(mr. coldry's phlox.) 
class. order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
FOLEMONIACE^. 
Generic Character. — Vide vol. ii. p. 221. 
Specific Character. — P/aw^ an herbaceous perennial, about two feet in height. Stems erect, moderately 
strong, triflingly and almost imperceptibly downy, profusely spotted with purplish brown. Leaves 
sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, inclining to cordate at the base, partially scabrous on the upper 
side and on the midrib, deep green above, smooth and very pale beneath. Flowers particularly 
large, purplish lilac, with the bright orange stamens conspicuous in their centres. 
Many years ago, tliis most ornamental Phlox was generated in the Bristol 
nursery by Mr. Coldry, late foreman of that establishment, between two species 
whose names we have not succeeded in learning ; but of which P. cordata is pretty 
evidently one. According to our informant, a botanist residing in that district 
thought it proper that the plant thus raised should bear the name of the individual 
to whose instrumentality it owed its existence : and the title of P. Coldryana was 
henceforth adopted in nursery gardens. "We now transfer it to our pages, satisfied 
that any alteration would be an objectionable innovation on established usage ; and 
simply causative of perplexity and annoyance. Moreover, it is but just that if the 
hybridist is fortunate enough, by the cleverness of his contrivance for the inter- 
mixture of two plants with diverse properties, or the appropriateness of his 
management during the process, to give birth to a kind meriting permanent 
attention, that his ability and assiduity should be enduringly commemorated, by 
the association of his name with the product of his ingenuity. 
From the Bristol nursery this plant was transported, at a more recent date, to 
that of Epsom ; where, having admired its beauty in the summer of 1839, and 
sought in vain through the fine collection there existing for a Phlox of an equally 
showy description, we determined that our readers should have the benefit of the 
acquaintance with it we had acquired, by having a coloured delineation presented 
