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PHLOX triflora.
Pubescent-stemmed Lychnidea.
Natural Order. P o l emo n idEjE. Juss. gen. 136.
P H L O X . Calyx 5-fidus aut 5-partitus connivens. Corolla
tubulosa hypocrateriformis, tubo longo, limbo plano 5-partito.
Stamina 5 inmqualia; antheris sagittatis. Stigma trifidum.
Capsula 3-locularis, 1-sperma.
Herb® ; fo lia opposita Simplicia, floralia interdum alterna ;
flores subcorymbosi terminales. Hab itu s S a p o n a ria , sed flo s
1-petalus. Juss. gen. loc. cit.
P . triflora, caulibus erectis subpubescentibus, foliis lanceolatis
glabris, corymborum ramis subtrifloris, calycinis dentibus
linearibus. Michaux. Flor. A m e r .\ .p .\4 3 .
Phlox triflora. Pers. syn. 1. p . 186. Hort. sub. lond. p . 3b.
Colv. catal, ed. 2. p . 40. col. 1.
Phlox carnea. Botan. magaz. 2155.
R o o t perennial. Stems branching, nearly erect, a
little flexuose, from a foot to 18 inches high, thickly
clothed with a dense woolly pubescence, upper part
obsoletely quadrangular; branches spreading, each
crowned with a corymbus of flowers. Leaves short-
petioled, entire, lanceolate, acute, broad at the base,
smooth, and dotted all over with innumerable minute
d o ts; lower ones opposite, those near the flowers
sometimes alternate. Flowers in a loose spreading
corymbus, of a pale lilac colour; branches of the
corymbus mostly 3-flowered. Peduncles smooth,
seldom as long as the calyx. Calyx deeply 5-cleft,
segments linear, keeled, and taper-pointed, all joined
by a thin membrane at the base. Corolla tubular;
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