616 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Sida acuta carpinifolia Schumann, in Mart. FL. Bras. 12, pt.3: 326. 1801. 
Sida carpinifolia L. f. Suppl. 307. 1781. 
Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1: 324. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 73. 
TROPICAL REGIONS, AMERICA, AFRICA, East INDIES. 
Louisianian area. Florida. 
ALABAMA; Lower Pine region, Coast plain. Sparingly naturalized; more fre- 
quently adventive on ballast heaps. Mobile County, Springhill, waste places near 
the hotel (1. W. Bush). Flowers August. 
Type locality: Many provinces of Brazil are cited with Paraguay and English and 
French Guiana, “ preterea inter tropicos utriusque orbis herba ruderalis vulgaris.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sida rhombifolia L. Sp. Pl. 2: 684. 1753. RHOMBLEAF SIDA. 
EM. Sk. 2:160. Chap. 1.55, Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 74. 
COSMOPOLITAN IN WARMER REGIONS, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Dry pastures, waste and cultivated 
places, Mobile County, a common roadside weed, most probably naturalized from 
the adjacent tropics; never met with distant trom dwellings, Flowers yellow, May 
to October, . 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in India utraque. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sida elliottii Torr. & Gray, F1.N.A.1:231. 1838. ELLIOTT’s Sipa, 
Sida gracilis Ell. 8k. 2:159, 1824. Not Richard. 
SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, South Carolina to Florida, west to Tennessee 
and Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Lower Pine region. In light dry soil, open copses, 
Montgomery, Autauga, and Washington counties. Flowers pale yellow; June, 
August. Not infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Sandy soil; South Carolina, Litt; Georgia, Dr. Boykin! Florida, 
Croom! Dr. Chapman!” . 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
Sida linifolia Cav. Diss. 1:14, t..2,f. 7. 1790. 
Griseb. F 1]. Brit. W. Ind. 76. 
TROPICAL AMERICA AND AFRICA, 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile. September. Ripened seeds perfeetly in 
1892 and 1893. 
Type locality: “ Hab.in Insula Caienae ct in Peru, ubi eam observavit D. Jos. de 
Jussieu.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
MALVASTRUM Gray, P1. Fendl. 21. 1849, 
Malvastrum angustum Gray, Pl. Fendl. 22. 1849, FALSE MALLOW, 
Sida hispida Pursh, Fl, Am, Sept. 2:452. 1814. (?) 
EN. Sk. 2:159, Gray, Man. ed. 6,99. Chap. FI. 54. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Western Tennessee, southern Missouri, and 
Kansas. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt. Tallapoosa County (4. A. Smith), August, 1873. 
Annual. 
Type locality: “This is probably Pursh’s plant; but I have not seen it from Geor- 
gia. Drummond gathered it at St. Louis, whence I have also received it from Dr. 
Engelmann; and Nuttall found depauperate specimens on the plains of Red River.” 
Herb, Mohr. 
Malvastrum spicatum (L.) Gray, Pl. Fendl. 22. 1849. 
Matva spicata L., Syst. ed. 10,2: 1146. 1759, 
Griseb, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 72. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive from the tropics on ballast. Mobile, August, 1892. Not met 
with since. 
Type locality not originally given. In L.Sp. Pled.2: “Hab. in Jamaica.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
