SPURGE FAMILY. 595 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Shady banks of streams. Mont- 
gomery County, Pintlala, Choctaw County. Clarke County (Dr. Denny). Mobile 
County. Four to & feet high. Frequent, particularly in the upper division of the 
Coast Pine belt. 
Type locality: ‘Hab, in sylvarum umbrosis, ad ripas amniun Carolinae et 
Georgiae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SAPIUM ?. Br. Mist. Jam. 838. 1756. 
About 25 species, tropics of both hemispheres. 
Sapium sebiferum Roxb. FI. Ind. 3:693. 1824. TALLOW TREE. 
Croton sebiferum L. Sp. Pl. 2:1004. 1753. 
Stillingia sebifera Michx. F 1]. Bor, Am. 2:213. 1803, 
wi. Sk. 2:651. Chap. FI. 405. 
CHINA, JAPAN, 
Louisianian area, Georgia, Louisiana. Introduced and cultivated for a shade tree. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain, Mobile. Rarely escaped to waste grounds. 
Type Jocality: ‘ Hab.in Chinae humidis. Osbeck.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
EUPHORBIA L. Sp. P1.1:450. 1753.) Srpurer. 
About 700 species, temperate and tropical regions. Europe, Asia, America. North 
America, 55 to 60. Largely Southern, South Atlantic States, 35. 
Buphorbia polygonifolia L. Sp. V1.1:455, 1753. SEASIDE SPURGE, 
Ell. Sk. 2:656. Gray, Man. ed.6,452.. Chap. Fl. 404. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2: 387, 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, Ontario, Illinois (shores of the 
Great Lakes); New York south to Florida, west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands of the seashore, Baldwin and Mobile 
counties and adjacent islands, Flowers July to October; frequent. Annual, 
Type locality: ‘ Hab.in Canada, Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Buphorbia cordifolia Ell. Sk. 2: 656. 1821-24. HEARTLEAF SEASIDE SPURGE, 
Ell. Sk.loc. Chap. F 1.404. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 388. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida and west to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sand. Eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Lald- 
win County. Mobile County, Dauphin Island. June to August; rare. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘In cultivated land, common around Beaufort,” 8. C. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Euphorbia serpens H.B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2:52. 1817. CREEPING SPURGE. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,453. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 646; ed. 3,425. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2: 388. 
MEXICO, SOUTIT AMERICA. 
Carolinian to Louisianian area. Tennessee, [linois, southern Kansas, and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Waste places, roadsides. Mobile County. Most probably 
adventive from the Southwest. August, September. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘“Crescit in umbrosis Cumanae prope Bordones et Punta Araya.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Euphorbia humistrata Engelm. in Gray, Man. ed, 2, 386. 1856. 
LOW SPREADING SPURGE. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 453, Chap. Fl. Suppl. 646; ed.3, 426. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2: 389, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, Shaded sandy ground, grassy banks. New 
Jersey, Ohio, southern Missouri, ‘Tennessee, Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region, Coast plain. Baldwin County. Eastern shore 
Mobile Bay. Mobile County, Springhill. Flowers August to October. Not infre- 
quent with the following, and of the same habit of growth. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Banks of the Mississippi and lower Ohio, in rich alluvial soil, 
and southwestward.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Tlerb. Mohr. 
'J. B.S. Norton, North American species of Euphorbia section Tithymalus, Elev- 
enth Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pp. 85 to 144, 1899, 
