PINK FAMILY. 499 



Alabama: Over the State. Roadsides, pastures, in dry ground. Mobile County. 

 Flowers February, March; common. Annual. 



Type locality: " Hab. iu Europae pratis macileutis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Europe. 

 Cerastium vulgatum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : (i27. 1762. LargkrMousk-ear Chickweed. 



Cerastinm iriviaU Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 1 : 433. 1821. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 88. Chap. Fl. 50. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 29. 



Naturalized from Europe. Distribution of the last, less fre(|uent. 



Alabama : All over the State. In gardens, borders of fields, grass plots. Flowers 

 white. March, April; less common than the above. Annual. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Scaniae et Europae australioris pratis, areis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Her)>. Mohr. 



ALSINE L. Sp. PI. 1:272. 1753. 

 (Stellaria L. Sp. PI. 1:421. 1753.) 



About 75 species, temperate regions Northern Hemisphere. 

 Alsine media L. Sp. PI. 1:272. 17.53. Common Chickweed, 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 86. Chap. Fl. 50. 



Europe. 



Throughout the continent ; introduced. 



Alabama: Abundant on cultivated ground and in damp waste places. One of the 

 most common of our winter annuals. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Europae cultis.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Alsine pubera (Michx.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club. 4: 107. 1893. 



Soft Hairy Starwort. 



Stellaria puheraMXchs.. Fl. Hor. Am. 1:273. 1803. 

 Ell. Sk. 1:517. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 87. Chap. Fl. 50. 

 Carolinian area. 



Alabama: Rich woods, in the hills. Tuscaloosa County. May, .June; not fre- 

 quent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in montibns sylvaticis Carolinae st-ptentrionalis." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Alsine pubera tennesseensis var. nov. 



Perennial, from a slender, creeping rootstock, stem ascending, 6 to 8 inches high, 

 snioothish; leaves broadly ovate \ inch wide, sessile or i)etiolulate, calyx lobes more 

 or lessobtuse or acutish, almost as long as the petals. 



Readily distinguished from the type by the foliage of rich dark green, broader 

 leaves, and stouter habit of growth. 



Carolinian area. Kentucky. 



Alabama: Rich shaded banks. Tuscumbia County, shaded rocky shelves, bluffs 

 of the Tennessee River near Sheffield. Madison County, Montesano ( lUtker .y- Earle). 



Dr. J. Small finds our plant identical with specimens collected in Kentucky by 

 Dr. Short. 



Intermediate forms from the knobs in Southern Indiana connect it with the type. 

 (Mohr.) 



Type locality: The stations mentioned above. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ARENARIA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 423. 17.53. 

 (Alsine Wahl. Fl. Suppl. 127. 1812. Not L.) 



About 150 species, widely distributed over the globe, mostly in cool temperate, 

 alpine, and arctic regions. North America, 30. Southern United States, 5. 



Arenaria stricta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 274. 1803. • Michaux's Sandwort. 



Arenaria michaaxii Hook. f. Trans. Linn. Soc. 23 : 287. 1867. 



EU.Sk. 1:521. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 85. Chap. Fl. 49. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:30. 



Canadian zone to (Jarolinian area. 



Ontario to Lake Superior and Saskatchewan; New England west to Michigan, 



