498 PLANT l.IKK OF ALABAMA. 



VACCARIA Mc.lic. Thil. Hot. !:!»«. ITSit. 



Vaccaiia vaccaria (L.) lUittoii in Hritt. A, Hr. III. 1'1.2: IH. 1X!)7. Cowhekb. 



Sdjjonariu lavcaria 1^. Sp. PL 1 : 109. 1753. 



lavcdria vulnaris Host. FL Aust. 1 : 518. 1827. 



Cray. ^Lm. eiL C, 8S. 



Atlvi'utive froiu lOiirope. OccaHioiially nut with in (JaiiiuLi and throughout the 

 Atlantic States, and in Ccdorad*). 



Alak.vma: Mobile County, cultivated ground. !• lowers May, Juno; piuk. Rare. 

 Annual. 



Ty))<' locality : " Hah. inter scgetes Galliae, Gerniauiae." 



Herb, tieol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 



SAGINA L. .Sp. I'l. 1: 1:^8. 1753. I'karlwokt. 



About lli species, temperate regions of Kuropi^ and North America. 

 Sagiiia decumbens (Ell.) Torr. ife Gray, FL N. A. 1 : 177. 1838. 



Spirgida deriimhcns Ell. Sk. 1 : 523. 1817. 



Gray, Man. ed. tJ, 8!t. Chap. FL 48; ed. 3, 41. 



Carolinian and Ijouisianian areas. New York west to southern Illinois .ind Mis- 

 Bouri, south to North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and southern Arkansas. 



Ai.aisama: Mountain region. Central Pine belt. Pastures, roadsides. Cullman 

 County. Tuscaloos;i County (/t'. J. -Smi//!). Flowers Ai>ril; rare. Annual. 



Type locality: " (irows iu ticlds and pastures [South Carolina and Georgia]." 



Herb. (ieol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sagiua decumbens smithii ((Jray) Wats. Bibl. Index, 105. 1878. 



Sai/iiia siihiilata sinitliii (>rav. Man. cd. 5, 95. 18()7. 



Gray, Man. ed. 0, 89. 1890. ' 



Candiniau and Louisiauiau areas. Coast of New Jersey to Florida, west to 

 Mississippi. 



Ai-AHAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. In dry sandy soil. Barren 

 lields, roadsides. Montgomery and Mobile counties. Flowers March, April; very 

 eomnion. Annual. 



The plants exauuned from the lower countries of Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi 

 belong to this variety. From the remark of Elliott, " Seeds roughish under a 

 strong microscope," it appears that some of the plants under his type belong to this 

 variety. 



Type locality: "Near Philadelphia, in waste ground, and sandy fields, &c., Soiners 

 Point, N.J." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CERASTIUM L.Sp. PL 1:437. 17.53. 



Fifty to 60 species of the temperate regions Northern ]lemis))bere. North Amer- 

 ica, 9. 



Cerastium longipedunculatum Muhl.Cat. 46. 1813. Nodding Chickweed. 



(JerastiniH nnlnns KuL Prec. Decouv. 36. 1814. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 88. Chap. FL 50. 



Mexico. 



Hudsonian zone to Carolinian area. Nova Scotia and Ontario to Hudsons Bay. Brit- 

 ish Columbia, and Vancouver; New England west to Minnesota, Nebraska, the 

 Kocky Mountains, and Washington, south to Ohio, Tennessee, and North Carolina. 



Alabama : Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County (i^. ^. jSmi</i). Flowers white. May; 

 rare. Annual. 



Type locality: "Pensylvania." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cerastium viscosum L. Sp. PL 1 : 437. 17.53. Mouse-eau Chickweed. 



Cera»tiiim (jlomeratinn Thuill. FL Paris, ed. 2, 226. 1796. 

 Gray, Man. ed. 6, 88. Chap. FL 50. 



Europe. 



Widely spread over North America from Canada to the Gulf. Most probably 

 introduced. 



