PHLOX CRASSIFOLIA. 
THICK-LEAVED PHLOX. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
POLYMONIACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. Introduced 
N. America 
4 inches. 
April. 
Perennial, j in 1827. 
No. 319. 
As the word flaming is sometimes used to signify 
fine, so the Greek word, phlox, which is synony- 
mous with flame, was probably intended to mark the 
fine or gay character of the plant which it distin- 
guished. Crassifolia, from the Latin crassus, thick ; 
and folium, a leaf; a character by which this species 
is peculiarly distinguished. 
This plant was first, we believe, received into the 
garden of the Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, at 
Alton Towers, from Philadelphia; together with an- 
other, called longiflora, a late flowering species, some- 
what resembling suaveolens. 
It is a most desirable addition to the many species 
of Phlox already introduced ; its flowers equal, or 
perhaps surpass, any one of them in beauty ; it is 
completely hardy, and increases most rapidly. Its 
shoots, which are young and small, when the flowers 
appear, shortly afterwards spread luxuriantly on the 
surface of the ground, increase in the size of their 
foliage, and only require confinement to the soil, to 
induce their striking root immediately ; after which, 
they may be separated from the parent plant. As 
cuttings, also, they strike root very quickly. 
