496 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion. Onexposedrocks. Clay County, Baldrock, 2,200 feet. 
Cullman County, 800 feet (Misses Emily and Mary Mohr). Blount County, Warnock 
Mountains, 1,000 feet. WalkerCounty, Clear Creek Falls. Flowers rose purple, July ; 
not frequent, local. Perennial. 
Type locality: On sunny rocks: Delaware and Virginia.” 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CLAYTONIA L. Sp. P1.1:204, 1753. 
About 20 species, perennials, boreal and temperate regions, chietly western North 
America, Atlantic United States, 2. 
Claytonia virginica L. Sp. PI]. 1:204. 1753. VIRGINIAN SPRING BEAUTY. 
Ell. Sk. 1:306. Gray, Man.ed.6,91. Chap. FI. 44. 
Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario to 
Saskatchewan and Alaska; New England west to Minnesota and Nebraska, south 
throughout the Ohio Valley, west to Missouri and Arkansas,and from Virginia along 
the mountains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Tennessee basin. In rich copses and open woods, 
Lawrence County, Moulton, Jackson County, Scottsboro. Flowers white or pale 
rose. April, May; rare. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Virginia,” 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ALSINACEAE. Pink Family. 
AGROSTEMMA L.. Sp. Pl. 1:485. 1753. 
Agrostemma githago L. Sp. P1l.1:435. 1753, CORN-COCKLE. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,85. Chap. F152. 
Introduced from Kurope with grain. Canada throughont the Eastern Atlantic and 
Gulf States, sparingly diffused southward, 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Roadsides, borders of fields. Tuscaloosa County. 
Mobile County, ballast ground. Flowers purple. June, July; not frequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. inter Europae segetes.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SILENE L. Sp. Pl. 1:416. 1753. 
Three hundred and more species, temperate regions Northern Hemisphere; most 
frequent in the Old World, Europe, 150 species, North America, about 30; of these 
nearly one-third adventive from Europe. Western North America 16, Atlantic 
States about 15, indigenous 9. 
Silene stellata (L.) Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2,3: 84. 1811. STARRY CAMPION, 
Cucubalus stellatus L. Sp. Pl. 1:414. 1753. 
Ell. Sk, 1-514. Gray, Man. ed. 6,84. Chap. F151. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Rhode Island west to Minnesota, Colorado, and 
Utah, south to the Ohio Valley and Arkansas, and along the mountains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Central Pine belt. Rich shaded banks. Clay 
County, Emory’s Gap, 1,600 feet. Cullman County, 800 feet. Bibb County. Tusea- 
loosa County, 400 feet (£2. A. Smith), Flowers white. July, August; not common, 
Perennial. 
Type locality: “‘Hab. in Virginia, Canada.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Silene ovata Pursh, I'l. Am. Sept. 1: 316. 1816. SOUTHERN CAMPION, 
KUL Sk.1:517. Chap. F151. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1: 190. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Mountains of North Carolina to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Central Prairie region. Dry sandy banks. Mont- 
gomery County, ravines on Chinquapin Hill. Cullman County (Miss M. Mohr). 
Flowers white. August; rare, Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘In the western part of Georgia and Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Silene rotundifolia Nutt. Gen. 1: 288. 1818. ROUND-LEAVED CAMPION, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,84, Chap. FI. 51. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Kentucky; Tennessee, Cumberland Mountains, 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion. Shady rocks. Winston County, Colliers Creek, 1,500 
