PINK FAMILY. 501 



TISSA Adans. Farn. PI. 2 : 507. 1763. 



(Spergularia Pers. Syn. 1 : 504. 1805. ) 



Altoiit 20 species. Seacoast and saline inland stations of temjierate regions, 

 Northern Hemisphere. North America, 6. 



Tissa marina (L.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 16 : 127. 1889. Sand Spurrv. 



Arenaria rubra var. marina L. Sp. PI. 1 : 423. 1753. 



Spergularia salina PresI, Fl. Cech. 95. 1819. 



Buda marina Dumort. Fl. Belg. 110. 1827. 



Gray, Mau. ed. 6, 89. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 71. 1876. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 30. 

 1891. 



Europe, Mexico to Brazil. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, seashore ; saline 

 plains west to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, and California ; New England 

 along the seashore to I'loridii, west to Texas. 



Alabama : Littoral region. Brackish sands. Mobile County, West Fowl River. 

 Fruit purplish. May. Seeds with rough projections, scarcely margined. Rare. 

 Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in litoribus marinis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Tissa rubra (L.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 16 : 127. 1889. Pink Sand Spukry. 



Arenaria rubra L. Sp. PI. 1 : 423. 1753. 



Spergularia rubra Presl, Fl. Cech. 93. 1819. 



Buda rubra Dumort. Fl. Belg. 110. 1827. 



Chap. Fl. 48. Gray, Mau. ed. 6, 89. 



Europe. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scoti.^, New Brunswick; New England 

 south to Virginia and Florida. 



Alabama: Adventive on ballast. Mobile County, found once. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europae arenosis collibus." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



STIPULICIDA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 26. 1803. 



A single species, southern United States. 

 Stipulicida setacea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 26, f. 6. 1803. Tiny Stipulicida. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 51. Chap. Fl. 47. 



Louisianian area. North Cai'olina, Florida, west to Mississippi. 



Alabama: Littoral region, Central Pine belt. Baldwin County, drifting sands. 

 Eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Autauga County, Prattville, gravelly banks of streams. 

 April to .Tune; not rare. Annual. 



Type locality: ''Hab. in sabulosis aridis Carolinae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



POLYCARPON L. Syst. ed. 10, 881. 1759. 



Sis species, warmer and temperate regions of both hemisjiheres. 

 Polycarpoii tetraphylluni L. f. Suppl. 116. 1781. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 182. Chap. Fl. 48. 



Southern Europe. 



Louisianian area. Cosmopolitan in warmei- regions. Introduced into South Caro- 

 lina and Georgia. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Sandy exposed soil. Mobile County, on ballast ground, 

 and iu waste places along the river front. Annual. 



Type locality (Willd. Sp. PI.) : " Hab. in Italiae, Istriae, G. Narbonensis vineis. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PARONYCHIA Adans. Fam. PI. 2 : 272. 1763. Wiiitlow-wort. 



About 40 species, iu warmer regions of the Northern Hemisphere. North America, 

 9 or 10. Southern States, 5. 



