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Title: Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 12
Identifier: contributionsfro12univ (find matches)
Year: 1934 (1930s)
Authors: University of Pennsylvania. Botanical Laboratory; University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum
Subjects: Botany; Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s. n. )
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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210 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE July, 1935
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Phlox subulata although there may be exceptions in both regions. On December 10, 1745, John Bar- tram wrote to Peter Collinson in Eng- land that he was sending him *'one sod of the fine creeping spring Lychnis," by which he meant the plant subse- quently named by Linnaeus Phlox subulata. This is the earliest record we have of the introduction of the species into horticulture, a date which Farrer suggested "ought in- deed be kept as a horticultural fes- tival." It persisted in Collinson's garden, and was catalogued by him as "Lychnidea ser^pervirens flore rubro"—the evergreen false-lychnis with red flowers. From there it found its way into other gardens, but apparently received no particular at- tention for over a hundred years. The first color-form to be picked out from its numerous variants and specially propagated was white with rose-purple eye-striae, the leaves be- ing unusually broad; this was orig- inated by J. G. Nelson in 1852 and was duly named horticultural variety nelsoni. Many others have since been developed, the most popular in the United States being hort. var. grandi- flora. This has a rather raucous ma- genta corolla-color, but is valued be- cause of the relatively large size and abundance of its flowers. Hort var. atropiirpurea has a more intense and redder color, but is less widely used. Some of the horticultural varieties produce viable seed, but others are sterile clones which must be propa- gated vegetatively. No attempt will be made to list them here, but a brief discussion may be given of the status of certain "specific" names often used in connection with this Phlox. australis. A geographic variety, ranging from western North Caro- lina to southern Ohio, characterized by glandular hairs on the inflores- cence-foliage. brittonii. Originally described as a distinct species, but scarcely more than a variety, occurring in the Ap- palachians of Virginia and West Vir- July, 1935 THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 211 4-ki il^ •-Ay W. 1%*- r*.i

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