GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 487 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 458. Chap. Fl. 386. 



Loulsianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



Alabama: Littoral region. Loose sands. Baldwin County, Fish River Bay, shore 

 of Perdido Bay. Flowers white to pink. October, November; not frequent. 

 Shrubby. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. 8urv. Herl>. Mohr. 



Polygonella gracilis (Nutt.) Meiss. iu DC. Prodr. 14 : 80. 1856. 



Slender Jointweed. 



Polygonum qracile Nutt. Gen. 1 : 255. 1818. 



Chap. Fl. 387. 



Louisianian area. On the coast of South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



Alabama: Littoral region. Drifting saatts. Baldwin County, Point Clear. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : "In Georgia? Dr. Baldwyn." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Polygonella americana (Fisch. & Mey.) Small, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 141. 1894. 



AMEKICAN .lOINTWEED. 



(ionopyrum americanum Fisch. & Mey., Mem. Acad. St. Petersl). ser. 6, 4 : 144. 1840. 



Polygonella ericoides Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Joui-n. Nat. Hist. 5 : 230. 1845. 



P. meiosiieriaua Schuttlew. ; Meiss. in DC. Prodr. 14 : 81. 1856. 



Chap. Fi. 387. 



Carolinian area. Georgia, southwestern Texas (Riddell), Arkansas. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Limestone hills. Blount County, Warnock Moun- 

 tain, about 1,000 feet altitude {Miss Mary Mohr). Jackson County, Pisgah. Flowers 

 rose color. August; rare. Perennial. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BRUNNICHIA Banks ; Gaertn. Fruct. 1 : 213, t. 45, f. 2. 1788. 



One species, perennial climber, southern Atlantic North America. 



Brunnichia cirrhosa Banks ; Gaertn. Fruct. 1 : 214, t. 45. 1788. 



Ladies' Ear Drops. 



Itajania ovata Walt. Fl. Car. 247. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1:521. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 444. Chap. Fl. 392. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Gulf coast and southern Atlantic slope to cen- 

 tral Tennessee, southern Illinois, and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley to the coast! banks of streams^ common. Central 

 Prairie region. Lauderdale County, Florence, banks of Tennessee River. Hale, 

 Dallas, Montgomery, and Mobile counties. Flowers greenish white. July, August. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Bahama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CHENOPODIACEAE. Goosefoot Family. 



CHENOPODIUM L. Sp. PI. 1 : 218. 1753. Goosefoot. Pigweed. 



About 50 species, almost cosmopolitan, including some of the most common weeds, 

 numbers of them naturalized in America. About 8 species native in North America. 



Chenopodium album L. Sp. Pl. 1 : 219. 17.53. Lamb's Quarters. 



Ell. Sk. 1:330. Grav, Man. ed. 6, 432. Chap. FL 376. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 367. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 46. 



Common weed, introduced from Europe, naturalized over the continent. 



Alabama : Throughout the State. In cultivated and waste places. Mobile County, 

 frequent on the sea beach. July. August. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in agris Europae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chenopodium glaucum L. Sp. PI. 1:220. 1753. Oak-lea vkd Goosefoot. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 432. 



Introduced from Europe. Naturalized in New York and New Jersey. 

 Alabama; Near dwellings. Baldwin County, Blakely. Annual. 

 Type locality: " Hab. ad Europae fimeta."' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



