VETCH FAMILY. 559 
MExIco, BRAZIL, PERU. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Massachusetts and New York west to Iowa and 
Nebraska, south to Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Upper division of Coast Pine belt. Dry sandy 
banks. Cullman, Choctaw, Lee, and Tuscaloosa counties. Flowers yellow; July, 
August. Nowhere common. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Brasilia, Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Crotalaria purshii DC. Prodr. 2:124. 1825. Pursu’s RATTLE Box, 
Crotalaria laevigata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept 2: 469. 1814. Not Lam, 
C. parviflora Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 469. 1814. Not Roth. 
EI. Sk. 2:193. Chap. F1. 89. 
Louisianian area. Florida to South Carolina, west to eastern Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Damp pine barrens on sandy loam. 
Baldwin and Mobile counties. Flowers April, May. Notrare. Perennial, 
Type locality: “In Virginia et Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
Crotalaria brownei Bertero, DC. Prodr. 2: 180. 1825, BROWN’S CROTALARIA. 
Crotalaria striata DC. Prodr. 2: 131. 1825. 
Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 180. 
Tropical countries of the New and Old World. 
Louisianian area, 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Observed 1890 to 1895. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘(In Jamaica ad rivulos frequens.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
LUPINUS Sp. P1l.2:721. 1753. Lupine. 
About 100 species, warmer temperate regions Mediterranean Hurope, Mexico, South 
America, Northwestern America, 60, Eastern United States, £ or 5, 
Luvinus gracilis Nutt. Journ. Acad, Phila. 7:115, 1834. Not Agardh. 1835. 
NUTTALL’S LUPINE. 
Lupinus nuttallii Wats. Proc, Am. Acad. 82526, 1873. 
L. perennis var. gracilis Chap. F1. 89. 1860, 
Chap. FI. 89. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina and Florida. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry sandy pine barrens. Mobile County, Spring- 
hill. Flowers pale blue; April. Frequent in dry sandy pine barrens near the 
coast. Easily distinguished from Lupinus perennis by the slender decumbent stem 
with stiff spreading hairs, bearing scarcely more than one slender drooping raceme 
Type locality: ‘Georgia, Florida, and westward to Mississippi.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
Lupinus diffusus Nutt. Gen. 2:93, 1818, SPREADING LUPINE. 
Ell. Sk. 2:192. Chap. F1. 00. 
Louisianian area, llorida to North Carolina, west to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Arid sandy pine ridges. Mobile and Baldwin 
counties, Flowers pale blue, March, April; fruit ripe May, June. Frequent. 
Perennial. 
Type locality: “Around Wilmington, and in many other parts of North and South 
Carolina, in the barren forests of the Quercus catesbaei and (. nigra.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Lupinus villosus Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1029, 1805. Harry Luvine, 
Lupinus pilosus Walt. Fl. Car. 180, 1788. Not L. 
Ell. Sk. 2:191, Chap. FI. 89. 
Louisianian area. Florida to North Carolina, west to Louisiana, 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Grassy damp pine barrens. Flowers 
“reddish purple with a dark spot in the center of the vexillum.” Flowers a couple 
of weeks later than the last, and affects situations of a heavier soil, retentive of 
moisture, Not infrequent. Biennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Carolina et in insula Trinitatis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
