. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. 18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15. Phlox panlculata Linn6. Veint-leaip Phlox. Plate 3. History.—This species was first recorded by Plukenet' in 1700, with the characterization "Lychnidea Virginiana Blat- tariae accedens, umbellata, maxima, Lysimachiae luteae foliis amphoribus"; the source of his material is unknown. John Bartram sent it to Peter Collinson, and in a letter dated June rhu .^^"^ published by Darlington,=> referred to it thus- The other, which I brought from Virginia, grows with me about five feet hig
. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. 18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15. Phlox panlculata Linn6. Veint-leaip Phlox. Plate 3. History.—This species was first recorded by Plukenet' in 1700, with the characterization "Lychnidea Virginiana Blat- tariae accedens, umbellata, maxima, Lysimachiae luteae foliis amphoribus"; the source of his material is unknown. John Bartram sent it to Peter Collinson, and in a letter dated June rhu .^^"^ published by Darlington,=> referred to it thus- The other, which I brought from Virginia, grows with me about five feet high, bearing large spikes of different coloured flowers, for three or four months in the year, exceeding beau- titul. In the catalog of Collinson's garden edited by Dill- wyn It IS entered as "Lychnidea folio Peraica, floribus in spicam depositis. 1744, a new lychnidea, sent by J. Bartram with a large spike of pale reddish purple flowers with peach- shaped leaves, flowered in July and ; Linne^ listed It as the first species of the genus, and noted that he had ob- tained It from Collinson. A figure published by Dillenius= under the name "Lych- nidea foho salicino" is often regarded as representing Phlox pamculata, but bears a closer resemblance to P. carolim A colored plate showing clearly the characteristic features of the former species appeared, however, in the second volume of the Sfrr- ifir"^ '"" '^' Gardeners' Dictionary issued bv Miller« m 1760, and it has been repeatedly figured during subsequent years. ^ Far more names have been applied to variants of this species than to those of any other Phlox, but only the more important of these from the technical standpoint will be discussed here, ihe earliest, P. undulata, was apparently firet published by Alton though also used by various other writers of the same period. The supposed distinctive feature of undulate leaves ^ often shown by otherwise typical P. paniculata, a species whic
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