PHLOX DIVARICA'TA. 
EARLY BLUE-FLOWERED PHLOX. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
• POLEMONIACEA5. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
9 inches 
May. 
Perennial 
in 1746. 
No. 182. 
Phlox, from the Greek phlox, signifying flame. 
Lychnidea was formerly the name in general use 
for this tribe of plants, and is of the same import 
as Phlox ; but it is not evident why either of them 
have been thus applied. Divaricata, from its di- 
varicate stems. 
The original plants of this genus were all intro- 
duced from America, but the zeal of the European 
florists has added to our collections many varieties 
of this showy family. New sorts having been raised 
from seeds, and upwards of forty species and va- 
rieties are now in cultivation. 
The Phlox divaricata is a very distinct species, 
unlike any other that has hitherto been introduced 
into the English gardens. 
We have kept this plant, very successfully, in a 
rather cool and shady, and not particularly dry, 
situation. The soil, a mixture of peat and light 
loam. If it be left more than three or four years 
without a removal, the roots will become closely 
matted on the surface of the soil, and ultimately de- 
cline in luxuriance. It may be divided for increase, 
in the autumn, or early in the spring. 
Hurt. Kcw. 2, v. 1, 326. 
