PHLOX CLARKIOI'DES. 
CT^RKIA-LIKE PHLOX. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
polemoniacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
America. 
18 inches. 
August. 
Perennial 
in 1844. 
No. 10)1. 
The derivation of the present generic name has 
been noticed under No. 065. Its specific name 
was adopted in allusion to the similarity the 
flower hears to the well-known Clarkia pulchella, 
of which a figure has been given at No. 199. 
It is pleasing to obtain any addition to so beau- 
tiful a genus of plants as are the Phloxes. Whe- 
ther dwarf or tall, early-flowering or late, they are 
equally acceptable ; and no genus, perhaps, of the 
same extent, affords so ample a diversity in the 
size of its plants, or the season of their flowering. 
This novelty ranks with the middle sized species, 
as Carolina, camea, maculata, &c. Its Clarlria- 
like appearance arises, it will be seen, not from 
any peculiar fonn of its corolla, variable from the 
generality of the species, but simply from the 
splitting of its tube, which greatly changes its 
appearance. There is a peculiarity connected with 
the dividing of the tube of the Phlox which may 
not have come under the obseix'ation of many of 
our readers. If the corolla of any of the species 
be taken, and divided into five parts, by gently 
tearing it asunder at the divisions of its lobes, the 
