. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 9. Botany; Botany. 20 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13. Phlox maculata Linn4. Meadow Phlox. Plate 3. pre-Linnean references to this species are known. Plukenet^ listed it in 1700 as "Lychnidea Manarui elatior, Alsines aquaticae foliis, floribuB in longam spicam dense stipatis," and published a crude but unm^takable fig- ure of it five years later.^ It was termed by Ray^ Lych- noides ManUndica Jasmini flore quinquepartito, foliis binis oppositis, basi & auriculis caulem utrinque amplexantibus. In the correspondence between
. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 9. Botany; Botany. 20 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13. Phlox maculata Linn4. Meadow Phlox. Plate 3. pre-Linnean references to this species are known. Plukenet^ listed it in 1700 as "Lychnidea Manarui elatior, Alsines aquaticae foliis, floribuB in longam spicam dense stipatis," and published a crude but unm^takable fig- ure of it five years later.^ It was termed by Ray^ Lych- noides ManUndica Jasmini flore quinquepartito, foliis binis oppositis, basi & auriculis caulem utrinque amplexantibus. In the correspondence between Bartram and Colhnson pub- lished by Darlington,^ two references to it occur--Collinson to Bartram, June 16, 1742: "... but I have a Lychms, from Doctor Witt, different from any yet that I have seen, it seems to be the king of that tribe. ... It is now about two feet high, and yet no flowers appear. The stalk is most finely spotted,-which is very distinguishing from all the rest that I have seen. "-Bartram to Collinson, June 11, 1743: ihe Doctor's famous Lychnis, which thee has dignified so highly, is I think, unworthy of that character. Our swamps and low grounds are full of them. I had so contemptible an opinion of it, as not to think it worth sending ..." In the account of his travels in North America, Kalm= recorded finding it in New Jersey on June 2, 1749, and according to Juel and Harshberger," a specimen is preserved in his herbarium at Upsala. Finally, it was included in the 1752 edition of Mil- ler's Gardeners' Dictionary,' as Phlox No. 4. In assigning the species name, Linne« noted that he had received the plant from Kalm, but stated its source as Vir- ginia. As a photograph" of his specimen shows it to represent a variety common only north of that state, and as Kalm did not travel to any extent south of New Jersey, the latter should be regarded as its type locality. 1 Mantissa 122. 1700. 2 Amaltheum Botanicum pi. 425, fig. 6. 17U5. 3 Suppleme
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