614 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Corchorus aestuans LL. Syst. ed. 10, 2: L079. 1759. 
Griseb, Fl. Brit. WT. 97, 
Wrst INDIES, SOUTH AMERICA, . 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile, September, 1894. Annual. 
Type locality not originally given. In L, Sp. Pl. ed. 2: “Mab, in America calidiore.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. 
MALVACEAE. Mallow Family. 
ABUTILON Gaertn. Fruct. 2:251, ¢. 755, 1791. 
Seventy species, warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
Abutilon abutilon (L.) Rusby, Mem, Torr Club, 5:222. 1895-94. VELVET Liar, 
Sida abutilon L, Sp. Pl. 2: 685. 1753. 
Abutilon avicennae Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 251, ¢. 185, 1791. 
Ell. Sk. 2:162. Gray, Man. ed.6,99. Chap, F155, 
INp1A, widely spread in the warmer countries. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Naturalized throughout the Atlantic States. 
ALABAMA: All over the State in cultivated grounds and on roadsides. Flowers 
yellow, June to September; not common, Annual. 
Type locality: ‘* Hab. in Indiis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
MODIOLA Moench, Meth. 619. 1794. 
About half a dozen species, warmer regions South America to Brazil. North 
America, 1. 
Modiola caroliniana (L.) Don, Hist. Dich]. Pl. 1:466. 18381. 0 CAROLINA MALLOW. 
Malva caroliniana L. Sp. Pl. 2: 688. 1753. 
Modiola multifida Moench, Meth. 619. 174. 
Ell. Sk. 2:163. Gray, Man. ed. 6,100. Chap. F156. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 72. 
WEsT INDIES, SOUTHERN MEXICO, SourTH AMERICA, JUAN FERNANDEZ. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia and North Carolina to Flor- 
ida, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Light sandy soil, roadsides, waste 
places. Tuscaloosa County (2.4. Smith), Mobile County. Flowers scarlet, May 
to July. A common weed. Perennial. 
Type locality: “Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
MALVA L.Sp. Pl2:687, 1755, 
Thirty species, temperate regions, Europe. 
Malva rotundifolia L. Sp. Pl. 2: 688. 1753. ComMMON MALLOW, 
Adventive from Europe, naturalized in the Eastern United States. 
ALABAMA: Over the State, neardwellings. Mobileand Baldwin counties. Flowers 
in June, July. Not frequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Europae ruderatis, viis, plateis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
Malva brasiliensis Desr. in Lam. Eneycl. 3: 744. 1789. BRAZILIAN MALLOW. 
Fugitive on ballast from the tropics. Mobile, tirst collected June, 1895, 
Type locality: “Au Bresil, ot elle fut trouvée, par Commerson, & Vile aux Chats, 
dans la rade de Rio-Janeiro.”’ 
CALLIRRHOE Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 2:181. 1821. 
Seven species, Perennial herbs, North American. 
Callirrhoe papaver (Cav.) Gray, Pl. Pend]. 17. 1849. PorpyLikE MALLOW. 
Malva papaver Cav. Diss. 2: 64, t, 25, f.3,. 1790. 
M, nuttalloides Croom, Aim. Journ. Sci. 26:318, 328. 1834, 
Chap. F 1.53. 
Louisianian area, Ceorgia and Florida, west to Louisiana and Arkansas, 
