. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 9. Botany; Botany. Fig. 1. Phlox ovnia. West of White Sulpliur Springs, Greenl)rier ('oiinty, West Fig. 2. Pltlox ovafa. In cultivation; originally from Virginia. 10. Phlox ovata Linne. Mountain Phlox. Plate G. History.—In Plukenet's^ Mantissa of 1700 there was in- eluded a plant characterized as ''Lychnidea fistulosa Mari- landica, Clinopodii vulgaris folio, flore amplo singulari.'' The figure shows this as a Phlox with remote, ovate, petioled leaves and a single flower subtended by a large bract. Linne^ named it Phlox ovata, basi
. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 9. Botany; Botany. Fig. 1. Phlox ovnia. West of White Sulpliur Springs, Greenl)rier ('oiinty, West Fig. 2. Pltlox ovafa. In cultivation; originally from Virginia. 10. Phlox ovata Linne. Mountain Phlox. Plate G. History.—In Plukenet's^ Mantissa of 1700 there was in- eluded a plant characterized as ''Lychnidea fistulosa Mari- landica, Clinopodii vulgaris folio, flore amplo singulari.'' The figure shows this as a Phlox with remote, ovate, petioled leaves and a single flower subtended by a large bract. Linne^ named it Phlox ovata, basing his diagnosis on the Plukenet figure, although Jackson^ records that the specimen in his herbarium (which has several flow^ers in a corymb) was already there in 1753. Sir Josepli Banks, according to Sims,* recognized that Plukenet's figure and Linnets diagnosis referred to an ab- normal individual, and extended the name P. ovata to cover plants with corymbose flowers. Michaux,^ on the other hand, proposed P. latifolia for the many-flowered plants he collected in North Carolina. Pursh^ listed both ovata and latifoliay not realizing that they are identical. In the second edition of his Species Plantarum, Linne^ described another Phlox with broad leaves as P. Carolina. Bentham^ considered this to be conspecific with P. ovata, but separated three varieties, applying to one of them the com- bination P. Carolina a ovata. In 1870 Gray® pointed out objections to this procedure, proposing instead P. ovata elatior; and later^^ discarded the name Carolina entirely, as a synonym of P. ovata. In this he has been followed by most botanists, but a study of photographs^^ of the Linnean speci- mens of the two shows that they actually represent distinct species, and P. Carolina will be discussed at length on a sub- sequent page. 1 Mantissa 122, pi. 348, tig. 122-pl. 4. 1700. 2 Species Plantarum (1): 152. 1753. sSuppl. Proc. Linn. Sec. 124: 116. 1912. * Curtis's Botanical Magazine 15: pi. 5
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