680 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
PASSIFLORACEAE. Passion Flower Family. 
PASSIFLORA L. Sp. P1.2:959. 1753. 
About 130 species, chiefly of tropical America from West Indies to Brazil. North 
America 9, 
Passiflora incarnata L. Sp. Pl. 2:959. 1753. Mayror. ComMMON Passion FLOWER, 
Ell. Sk. 2:153, Gray, Man. ed. 6, 194. Chap. Fl. 17. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:121. 
CUBA, BRAZIL, PERU. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia west to Kentucky; Missouri and 
Arkansas, south to Florida, and throughout the Gulf States to western Texas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Dry, waste, and cultivated 
ground, Cullman County, 800 feet. Mobile County. Flowers purple amd white; 
April, May. Fruit ripe June, July, greenish yellow, the pulp edible. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Virginia, Brasilia, Peru.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Passiflora lutea L. Sp. P1l.2:958. 17538. . YELLOW Passton FLOWER. 
El. Sk.2:154, Gray, Man. ed.6,194. Chap. FI. 147. 
Carolinian and Louisianianareas, Virginia and Ohio to Missouri, south to Ilorida, 
west to Louisiana and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Damp thickets. Morgan County, 
Decatur, Cullman County, 800 feet. Tusealoosa County. Jefferson County (HH. l. 
Smith), Clarke County (Dr. Denny), Mobile County. Flowers dull yellow; June. 
Not rare. Climbing over bushes, Perennial. 
Type locality: “ Hab.in Virginiae, Jamaicae glareosis, saxosis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
CACTACEAE. Cactus Family. 
OPUNTIA Mill. Gard. Dict.ed.7, 1759. PrickLy pear, 
About 150 species, of subtropical and tropical America. North America, mostly 
western (Sonoran areas) and adjacent parts of Mexico 101. 
RAFINESQUE’S PRICKLY PEAR, 
Opuntia humifusa Raf. Med. Bot. 2: 247, 1830. 
Cactus humifusus Raf. Ann. Nat. 15, 1820, 
Opuntia mesacantha Raf.; Seringe, Bull. Bot. Gen. 216. 1830, 
Opuntia rafinesquit Engelm, Syn. Cact. 295. 1856. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,197. Chap. Fl. ed.3,171. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 135, 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Ontario, southern New England, Minnesota, 
Wisconsin and Missouri to Texas and Louisiana, 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Flowers sulphur-yellow, April, May. 
Fruit ripe June, July; pulp purple. Abundant in the limestone hills of the Ten- 
nessee Valley and common in the dry sandy pine barrens of the Lower Pine region 
and Coast plain. Perennial. 
Type locality unknown. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Opuntia opuntia (L.) Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:432, 1896, 
COMMON PRICKLY PEAR, 
Cactus opuntia L. Sp. Pl. 1: 468, 1758. 
Opuntia vulgaris Mill. Dict. ed. 8, no. 1. 1768, 
Gray, Man, ed. 6,197. Chap. FI. 144, ed. 3, 171, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, Southeastern Massachusetts alone the coast 
to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Shell banks. MobileCounty, Dauphin Island. Perennial, 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in America, Peru, Virginia, nune in Hispania, Lusitania.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. 
Opuntia pes-corvi Le Conte; Chap. Fl. 145. 1860, CROWFOOT CACTUS. 
Chap. FI. 145. 
Louisianian area, Georgia and Florida, west to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands on the seashore. Mobile County, 
Dauphin Island, Navy Cove. Flowers rose purplish; April, May. Not frequent. 
Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Barren sandy places alone the coast, Florida and Georgia.” 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb, Mohr, 
