. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 9. Botany; Botany. 20 PEOCEEDINGS OP THE I 8. Phlox stolonifera Sims. Creeping Phlox. Plate 4. History.âSo far as recorded this Phlox was first observed, in Georgia, by the horticultural collector John Eraser in 1786, and living material sent by him to England in 1801 formed the basis of the specific description by Sims.^ It was also found about the same time by Michaux^ and named P. reptansj this has been widely used, but since Sims's name has a year's priority, Michaux's must be relegated to synonymy. Subse- quent names for the same species
. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 9. Botany; Botany. 20 PEOCEEDINGS OP THE I 8. Phlox stolonifera Sims. Creeping Phlox. Plate 4. History.âSo far as recorded this Phlox was first observed, in Georgia, by the horticultural collector John Eraser in 1786, and living material sent by him to England in 1801 formed the basis of the specific description by Sims.^ It was also found about the same time by Michaux^ and named P. reptansj this has been widely used, but since Sims's name has a year's priority, Michaux's must be relegated to synonymy. Subse- quent names for the same species were P. ohovata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow,^ P. prostrata Alton,* and P. crassifolia Lod- diges.^ The last, as well as the combination P. stolonifera crassifolia Don,^ represented the purple color-form, which is the more frequent and wide-spread; the original collection by Fraser, however, was of a form with violet corolla which occurs locally in the Blue Eidge, and the name P. stolonifera forma violacea has recently been applied to this by Peattie.^ As pointed out under P. amoena in the preceding article in this series,^ a showy-flowered Phlox which has long been in cultivation combines the characters of P. sululata sjid P. stolonifera in such a striking way as to clearly indicate its origin as a hybrid between these species. This has been named successively P. procumhens Lehmann,^ P. suhulata 3 latifolia Bentham,^^ *'P. verna'' Hort. ex Vilmorin" and '*P. amoena" Hort., not Sims; and these names, either alone or in various combinations, are sometimes mistakenly applied to P. stolon- ifera itself. As an example of the latter procedure, there may be cited the naming of what appears to be a color-form of the species **P. procumbens coerulea'' Hort. ex Crockett.^^ 1 Curtis's Botanical Magazine 16: pi. 563. 1802. 2 Flora Boreali-Americana 1: 145. 1803. 3 Enum. PI. Hort. Reg. Berol. 201. 1809. 4 Hortus Kewensis, ed. 2. 1: 326. 1810. 5 Botanical Cabinet 16: pi. 1596. 1829.
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