4U2 PLANT LIFE <>K ALABAMA. 



Wkst Inhies. Mkxico to Akc.rntina. 



Lonisiiiiiian area. Coast of Sontli Carolina to soiitluMii Florida. 

 Ai.AUAM.v : A(lvontiv«<oti ballast. Mobile Coiiuty, Soptcrnber, l>iH6 to 18!»."i. I'eroii- 

 ni.-il. 



Tyjio locality : "In .Vmi-ricra littoribiis niari.s.'' 

 Horb. Cieol. .Siirv . Herb. Mohr. 



Alternaiithera pungeiis 1 1. B. K. Nov. Gen. &. Sp. 2 : 206. 1817. 



IVIantliira pinK/ius Mo(|. in DC. Prodr. 13, ]tt. li:;{71. 1H4!). 



Jlliriiiiiitlicra acln/ntnthn \ ar. Iriaiitliii Mart. V\. Bras. 5. jit. 1 : 183, /. .55. ISoo. 



.\i..\iiama: Fu).jitive from the West Indies on ballast luiajja. Mobile County. 

 AuL'nst to < )(tober. F1ow<th white; ptT<'nnial. < ibserved for a series of years nntil 

 destroyed. 



Type locality : " Crescit in ripa ( )rino<i proi)e nohileni cataractaui May)tureu8ium." 



Herb. Geol. .Snrv. Herb. Mobr. 

 Alternanthera repens (L.) Knutze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 :53»!. 1891. Forty K.not. 



Aclnp-dnthrH repens L. Sjt. I'l. 1 : 225. 1753. 



AUernttnthera aehifianthu K. Br. Fl. Nov. Holl. 413. 1810. 



lllecehnun arhyraniha Walt. Fl. Car. 103. 1788. 



Kll. Sk. 1:309. Chap. F1.382. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 07. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 

 Herb. 2: 361. 



In most of the warmer regions of the globe. 



Wkst Imhes to Akokntina, Southeun Etrope, A.sia. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida and Texas. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Dry exposed places near dwellings. Mobile, pavements 

 and sidewalks, streets of the city. Flowers white. August to November. Peren- 

 nial. 



Economic uses : The herb is used domestically as a medicine. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Turcomannia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



TELANTHERA R. Br. in Tuckey, Congo Exp. 177. 1818. 



About .56 species, littoral plants; perennials. West Indies to Brazil. 

 Telauthera pMloxeroides acutifolia Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13, ])t. 2:363. 1849. 



Mart. I'l. Bras. 5, pt. 1 : t. .;/, /. 11. 



Stem slender. 2 or 3 feet long, decumbent, rooting in the mud; lower jiart sub- 

 mersed, upper jiart ascending; round, hollow, ilcshy, pubescent in lines and at the 

 iiiternodes, else smooth like the opposite, oblong-lanceolate, slightly acuminate 

 leaves which are attenuated at the base into a short, broad, pubescent ])etiole. 

 Flowers white in roundish he.ids, borne near the apex of the stems on a stout ])edun- 

 de shorter than the leaves. The scarious bracts ovate, cuspidate, shorter than the 

 5-carinate, 3-nerved, acute, glabrous sepals. 



WK.ST Indies, Brazil. 



Alabama: Stagnating tide-water streams. Mobile County. One-mile Creek, near 

 its month, tilling comidetely the bed of the creek. Flowers white. September, 1897. 

 Ad\ entive. 



Type locality: "In Brasilia prope S. Paul eivitatem, * * *^ circa Bahiam 

 " ', prope Buenos- Ayres." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ACHYRANTHES L. Sp. PI. 1 : 204. 17.53. 

 Tropical .and subtropical regions. 

 Achyraxithes aspera obtusifolia (Lam.) Griseb. Fl. Brit. "W. Ind. 62. 1864. 

 Aehyranthes ohtusi folia Lam. Encycl. 1:545. 1783. 

 West Indies, United States, Ea.st Indies. 



.Alabama: Fugitive from the neighboring tropics. Mobile County, ballast 

 grounds. Ferennial. 



Type locality: "Cette ])lante crolt naturellement dans I'Inde." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CELOSIA L. Sp. PI. 1:205. 1753. 

 About 35 species, tropical zone. 

 Celosia margaritacea L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1:297. 1762. 



Fugitive from the tropics, on ballast. Mol>ile County. Annual. 

 Type locality : "Hab. in America. " 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



