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PHLOX AMehaltictasch 
Shining-leaved Phlox. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
PHLOX. Cal. 5-fidus aut 5-partitus connivens. Cor. hypogyna, 
hypocrateriformis, tubo longo, limbo plano 5-partito. Stam. inequalia, 
non exserta, filamentis imo tubo insertis & eidem ultra adnatis, antheris 
sagittatis. Stylus 1. Stigma 3-plex. Caps. $-loc., 3-valv., valvis 
medio septiferis. Sem. solitaria. Herbe; folia opposita simplicia, 
floralia interdiim alterna; flores subcorymbosi terminales. Habitus Sa- 
ponaria, sed flos monopetalus.. Jussieu. gen. 136. 
P. suffruticosa, erecta, glaberrima; caule tereti maculato levigato, foliis 
ovato-oblongis subcarnosis supra nitidis atrovirentibus, subtis pallidis, 
corymbis fastigiatis, ramis inferioribus elongatis nudiusculis, corolla 
laciniis lato-obovatis subretusis, dentibus calycinis lanceolatis mucro- 
natis. (Pursh, ubi infrd, sub P. nitida). 
Phlox suffruticosa. MWalld. enum. 200. 
Phlox nitida. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 730. in suppl. 
Caulis bzpedalis et ultra, strictissimus, teres, maculatus, corymboso-ramo= 
sus, suffruticosus, sempervirens ; rami summitate numerosé confertéque flori- 
Seri, cymoso-fastigiantes, ad lentem superné subpubescentes. Folia distantia, 
longé acuminata, firma, atroviridia. Cor. limbo saturate vivideque violaceo- 
purpurascente, stella centrali ex radits 5 saturatioribus picto, laciniis lato-ob- 
cordatis, retusis, subimbricato-contiguis. 
_ Nearly akin to Putox carolina, but in that the stem and 
foliage are pubescent ; in this entirely smooth, except as to 
a very minute loose pile upon the stalks of the corymb. 
The flowers are here of a more brilliant violet-purple than 
in that, the foliage of a far darker and more shining green, 
and of a considerably firmer thicker substance: but the 
more remarkable distinction is the suffrutescent stem, 
which continues undecayed, and in leaf at the lower part 
‘the winter through. coe 
Willdenow, in his account of the plants cultivated in 
the Berlin garden, has been the first to establish the 
species, and by the above name. Mr. Pursh, unacquainted 
with this circumstance, has inserted it in the supplement 
to his North American Flora by another. 
Native of South Carolina. Blooms with us from the 
end of July to the end of October. Seldom exceeds two 
