746 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion, Exposed rocky hillsides, Northern Alabama( Buckley). 
Flowers brownish yellow; July. Rare. Low shrub. 
Type locality: ‘‘Mountains of North Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Diervilla rivularis Gattinger, Bot. Gaz.13:191, 1888, 
Shrub 2 to5 feet high. Branchlets terete; leaves subsessile, ovate or oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, whitish below, all parts hirsutely pubescent; cymes often 
numerous, 3 to 6 flowered; corolla slightly bilabiate, the upper three divisions in 
close contact, the lower more spreading; calyx lobes slender, lanceolate-subulate. 
Flowers larger and handsomer than in /), sessilifolia, 
Carolinian area. ‘Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Damp rocks, Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 
Desoto Falls, near Mentone, Flowers July; yellow. 
In our specimens the dowers are smaller than in 1), sessilifolia, the eymes densely 
Howered, and, like the fruit, viseid-pubescent. 
Type locality: ‘On the banks of ‘Lula Falls,’ Lookout Mountain, 2 few miles across 
the Tennessee line in Georgia.” 
VALERIANACEAE. Valerian Family. 
VALERIANELLA Pollich, Hist. Pl. Pal. 1:29. 1776. 
(FEDIA Gaert, Fruet. 2:36, 1788.) 
About 50 species, temperate Europe. North Ameriea, 15. 
Valerianella radiata (L.) Dufr. Hist. Val. 57. 1811. Witp LAMB SALAD. 
Valerianella locusta var. radiata L. Sp. Pl.1:84. 1753. 
Fedia radiata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 18. 1803. 
KIL Sk.1:42. Gray, Man. ed. 6,229. Chap. FI. 184. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 1, pt. 
2:45. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 164. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Pennsylvania te Michigan, south to Florida, 
west to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. In low damp ground, fields, waysides. Cullman 
County, Tuscaloosa County (2. 4. Smith). Lee County, Auburn. Mobile County. 
Flowers white; March, April. Frequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Marilandiae arvis.” 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
DIPSACEAE. Teasel Family. 
DIPSACUS IL... Sp. Pl. 1:97. 1753. 
Twelve species, warmer temperate regions, Europe, chiefly Mediterranean, 
Dipsacus sylvestris Huds. Fl. Ang]. 49. 1762, WILD TEASEL. 
EUROPE, 
Adventive. Sparingly naturalized in the Atlantic States. 
ALABAMA: Coast region, on ballast. Mobile County. June; infrequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in ineultis frequens.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb, Mohr. 
CUCURBITACEAE. Cucumber Family. 
CUCUMIS L.. Sp. Pl. 2:1010. 1753. 
Twenty-six species, warmer regions. 
Cucumis colocynthis L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 2:1435. 1763. COLOCYNTH. 
Adventive from Asia, Africa, sonthern Europe. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Colleeted with seeds fully matured October, 1883 
and 1884, A coarse creeping annual, 
Economic uses: The fruit is the “Colocynthis” of the United States Pharmaco- 
paia. ‘ 
Type locality not given, 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb, Mohr, 
