PHLOX PYRAMIDA'LIS. 
PYRAMIDAL PHLOX. 
Class, Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
POIEMONIACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N.America 
4 feet. 
June, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1800. 
No. 904. 
Phlox, see No. 6. Pyramidalis alludes to the 
pyramidal shape of the inflorescence of the Phlox 
now figured. Our drawing is of a side stem only, 
many of which, arranged round the main stem as 
an axis, form the pyramid. 
This is an exceedingly handsome, rather tall- 
growing, Phlox ; with flowers somewhat smaller and 
rounder than most of the upright species. Although 
the whole of them make a fine display when the 
plants become large, and send up many flowering 
stems, they are, notwithstanding, as regards either 
the size or number of their flowers, in no degree 
comparable with young plants which have only one 
or two stems. Some kinds are also liable to perish, 
when allowed to become large, by remaining long 
undivided. The mass of roots they form, either 
exhaust the soil with which they come in contact, 
of all the properties that are nutritious to the Phlox, 
and thus they are literally starved to death, through 
want of food; or else, according to the more modern 
theory, they deposit so much of an excrementitious 
matter, injurious to the plant, that they are quickly 
poisoned to death, unless removed from its influence. 
