. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. Fig. 1. Phlox ampUfoUa. One mile iioitlieast of Willets, Jackson County, North Caiolinn,. PHILADELPHIA BOTANICAL CLUB 15 III >• [> Fig. 2. Phlox ampUfolia. In cultivation; originally from Indiana. 14. Phlox amplifolia Britton. Broad-leaf Phlox. Plate 2. History.—Among the names regarded as synonyms of P. paniciilata Linne by Gray^ in his revision of the Polemonia- ceae was included '^P. glandulosa, Shuttleworth, coll. Kugel, pubescent form.'' So little description was thus given that the name lacks validity, but it m


. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. Fig. 1. Phlox ampUfoUa. One mile iioitlieast of Willets, Jackson County, North Caiolinn,. PHILADELPHIA BOTANICAL CLUB 15 III >• [> Fig. 2. Phlox ampUfolia. In cultivation; originally from Indiana. 14. Phlox amplifolia Britton. Broad-leaf Phlox. Plate 2. History.—Among the names regarded as synonyms of P. paniciilata Linne by Gray^ in his revision of the Polemonia- ceae was included '^P. glandulosa, Shuttleworth, coll. Kugel, pubescent form.'' So little description was thus given that the name lacks validity, but it may have represented a mem- ber of the Paniculatae which differs from the typical species of this section in several important respects. Mohr^ collected the same Phlox in Alabama, considering it a ^ Svell-marked variety,'' and identifying it with P. panicitlata var. aciimi- nata (Pursli) Chapman. His specimens, preserved in the U. S. National Herbarium, do not, however, agree with Pursh's original description. Britton,^ on the other hand, recognized it to be an independent species, and gave it the appropriate name P. amplifolia. Not considering the publication of a description necessary to validate a name. Brand* adopted that ascribed b}' Gray to Shuttleworth, and gave the date of its original use as 1842, presumably on the basis of an annotated sheet bearing a Rugel specimen. Finally, Robinson and Fernald^ returned to Gray's view that the Phlox under discussion is identical with P. paniculata. Here the two are regarded as sufficiently differ- ent to deserve independent status, and Britton's name as the only acceptable one. Geography.—Although herbaria do not contain many speci- mens of this Phlox, enough have been seen to show its range to center about the Interior Low Plateau province in Tennes- see, and to extend from east-central Alabama to eastern Mis- souri, southern Indiana, and western North Carolina. The Fall Line has formed a barrier to its migration southward, a


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