phl ; 
cornered branches covered with a woolly down, and 
garnifhed with leaves which on the lov/er part of the 
ftalks are heart-fhaped, but upward they are of an 
oval fpear-iliape, and woolly on their under fide ; they 
Hand cppolite upon fliort foot-ftalks. I he flowers 
come out in whorls round the ftalks ; they have awl- 
fliaped involucrums ending in acute points, and co- 
vered with down ; the flowers are of a bright pur- 
ple colour, and appear in June, but are not fucceeded 
by feeds in this country. This fort is propagated by 
cuttings in the fame way as the three flrft forts, and 
the plants fliould be treated in the like manner as hath 
been before directed for the tenth fort. 
The fourteenth fort was difcovered by Dr. Tourne- 
fort in the Levant, from whence he lent the feeds to 
the Royal Garden at Paris, where they fucceeded. 
This fort hath a perennial root and an annual ftalk 
which decays in the autumn, but the lower leaves 
continue all the year •, thefe are alternately winged, 
and the fmall lobes are cut on their edges. The ftalks 
■ rife a foot and a half high, garniftied with leaves of 
the fame ftiape with the lower, but are fmaller. The 
flowers come out in whorls round the ftalks, like 
thofe of the other forts, whofe empalementsare downy ; 
they are of a worn-out purple colour, and appear in 
June, but the feeds do not ripen here. 
It is propagated by offsets from the root in the fame 
way as the eighth fort, but thefe are font outfparingly 
alfo, and the plants require the fame treatment as 
thofe of the eighth fort. It is at prefent very rare in 
England, for the fevere froft in the year 1740 de- 
ftroyed all the plants in England, many of which had 
furvived all the winters for twenty years before in the 
open air. 
All the .fpecies of this genus are ornamental plants 
when properly difpofed in gardens, fc deferve a place 
there, for there is generally a fuccefiion of flowers on 
them for two or three months, and their hoary downy 
leaves, when intermixed with plants whofe leaves are 
green, make a pretty contraft. 
The leaves of the two flrft forts have been greatly re- 
commended by fome perfons to be ufed as tea for fore 
throats. 
PHLOX. Lin. Gen. Plant. 197. Lychnidea. Dill. 
Hort. Elth. 166. Lychnidea, or Baftard Lychnis. 
The Characters are. 
The flower has a cylindrical empalement of one leaf . j 
which is permanent, and hath five acute indentures at 
the top. It has one funnel-floaped petal , with a cylindrical 
tube narrow at the bafle, where it is incurved , and plain 
at the top , and is cut into five equal romdijh fegments 
which fipread open. It hath five jhort ftamina fituated 
within the tube , two of which are longer than the tube , 
terminated by fummits in the chaps of the flower. It hath 
a conical germen, fupporting a fender ftyle the length of 
the ftamina , crowned by an acute trifid ftigma. T he ger- 
men afterward turns to an oval capfule with three cells 
fitting in the empalement , each cell containing a fingle feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the flrft fedtion of 
Linnaeus’s fifth clafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have five ftamina and one ftyle ; but 
were it not for the number of ftamina, it would be 
better placed among the ringent plants in the fecond 
feriion of his fourteenth clafs, the ftrudture of the 
flower being the fame with thofe there ranged. 
The Species are, 
1. Phlox ( Glaberrima ) foliis lineari-lanceolatis glabris 
acuminatis, caule eredto ramofo, corymbo terminali. 
Lin. Sp. 217. Phlox with fmooth, narrow , fpear-fhaped 
leaves ending in acute points, and upright branching 
ftalks terminated by flowers , which grow in a corymbus, 
Lychnidea Virginiana, holoftei ampliore folio, fiori- 
bus umbellatis purpureis. Rand. Phil. Tranf. vol. 34. 
Virginia Bafldrd Lychnis with a larger Stitch-wort leaf, 
and purple flowers growing in umbels. 
2. Phlox ( Carolina ) foliis lanceolatis laevibus, caule 
fcabro corymbus, fubfaftigiatis. Lin. Sp. 216. Phlox 
with fmooth fpear-fhaped leaves , and upright ftalks ter- 
minated by flowers growing in a corymbus. Lychnidea 
Carolinians, floribus quafl umbeliatim difpofitis, fo- J 
P H L 
His lucidls craiiis acutis. Martyn. Dec. 1. Baftard 
Lychnis of Carolina , with flowers difpofed as it were in an 
umbel , and thick, flowing, acute leaves. 
3. Phlox ( Maculata ) foliis lanceolatis ke.vibus, race** 
mofo oppoike coryrnbofp.- Lin. Sp. Plant. 216. Phlox 
with fpear-fhaped leaves which are fmooth , and branching 
oppofite flowers. Lychnoides Marylandica, foliis bi- 
nis oppofitis bail & auriculis cauiem utrinque amplexi- 
caulibus. Rail Supp. 459. Maryland Baftard Lychnis 
with leaves growing oppofite, whofe bafe embraces the 
ftalks on both ftdes. 
4. Phlox ( Divaricaia ) foliis lato-lanceolatis, fqperiori- 
bus alternis, caule bifido pedunculis geminis. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 217. Phlox with broad fpear-fhaped leaves 
placed alternately at the top, and a branching ftalk . 
Lychnidea Virginiana, alfines aquatics foliis, flori- 
bus in ramulis diva'ricatis. Pluk. Mant. 12 1. Baftard 
Lychnis of Virginia with Water Chickweed leaves , and 
flower-branches diverging from each other. 
5. Phlox (. Paniculatis ) foliis lanceolatis margine fca.bris, 
corymbis paniculatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 216. Phlox, with 
fpear-fhaped leaves having rough borders , and flowers dife 
pofed in a compound corymbus. Lychnidea Virginiana, 
umbellata maxima, Lyiimachise lutese foliis amplio- 
ribus, binis ex adverfo pofltis. Pluk. Mant. 12 1. Baf- 
tard Lychnis of Virginia with the largeft umbel, and large 
yellow Looftrife leaves placed oppofite by pairs. 
6 . Phlox {Pilofa) foliis lanceolatis villofls, caule eredlo, 
corymbo terminali. Lin. Sp. Plant. 2 1 6. Phlox with 
hairy fpear-fhaped leaves , and an upright ftalk terminat- 
ed by a corymbus of flowers. Lychnoides Marylandica, 
calycibus lanuginofis, foliis anguftis acutis. Rail 
Supp. 490. Baftard Lychnis, of Maryland, with woolly 
empalement s to the flowers, and narrow acute-pointed leaves. 
7. Phlox ( Ovata ) foliis ovatis, floribus foiitariis. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 152. Phlox with oval leaves and folitary 
flowers, Lychnidea fiftulofa Marylandica, clinopodii 
vulgaris folio, flore amplo fmgulari. Pluk. Mant. 122. 
Fiftulous Baftard Lychnis of Maryland . , with a Field Bafil 
. leaf. \ and large flowers growing fingly. 
The flrft fort grows naturally in Virginia, and in 
fome other parts of North America, but has been fe- 
veral years pretty common in the Englifti gardens. 
This hath a perennial root, which fends up feveral 
ftalks, in number proportionable to the fize of the 
roots ; thefe rife near a foot and a half high, and di- 
vide into three or four fmall branches toward the top, 
which are terminated by a corymbus of flowers. The 
leaves on the lower part of the ftalks are placed op- 
pofite, and are about three inches long, and near 
half an inch broad at their bafe, ending in long acute 
points ; they are fmooth, and fet clofe to the ftalks ; 
the leaves on the upper part of the ftalks are placed 
alternate. The flowers grow on the top of the ftalks 
in a fort of corymbus, or rather in form of an um- 
bel, many of them arifing from the fame point, {land- 
ing on {hort foot-ftalks •, their empalements are tubu- 
lous, and have ten angles or furrows, and are cut at 
the top into five acute fegments; the tube of the 
flower is twice the length. of the empalement, and is 
divided at the top into five roundilh fegments which 
fpreadopen; thefe, are of a light purple colour, and 
appear in June, but unlefs the feafon proves warm, 
they are not fucceeded by feeds in England. 
The fecond fort grows naturally in Carolina ; this hath 
a perennial root, from which arife feveral rough, ftalks 
near two feet high, garniftied with ftiff Alining leaves 
placed oppofite, fitting clofe to the ftalks ; they are 
fpear-fliaped, entire, and their edges are refiexed j 
the upper part of the ftalk has generally two flender 
fide branches, and is terminated by a head of flow- 
ers, which grow in v/ho.rls round the ftalks ; but the 
whorls are fo nearly placed, as to appear one corym- 
bus at fome ddiance. The empalement of the flow- 
er is Ihort, and deeply cut into five acute fegments \ 
the tube ot the flower is long, and at the top is cut 
into five „ roundilh figments, which fpread open, 
Thefe flowers are of a deeper purple colour than 
thole of the former, and are a fortnight later before 
they appear. 
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