CAPER FAMILY. 529 



Alabama: Lower hills. Coast plain. Waste jilaces. Shelby County, Cahaha 

 {E. A. Smith). Mobile, a frequent ballast weed. Flowers pale purple; June, July. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America meridionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cleome aculeata L. Syst. ed. 12, 3 : 232. 17(57. Prickly Cleome. 



Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 16. 

 West Indies, Guiana. 



Alabama: Fugitive with ballast. Mobile. Collected once only, at Hunter's Wharf, 

 June 4, 1893, with seeds perfectly mature. Annual. 

 Type locality : " Hab. ii America. D. Zaega," 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cleome peutaphylla L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 938. 1762. Five-leavkd Gynanbkopsis. 



Gynandropnix pentaphyHa DC. Prodr. 1 : 238. 1821. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 150. Chap. Fl. 32. Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 183. 



Asia, E(;ypt. 



Warmer ])arts of America. Mo.st probably introduced from the Old World. 



Escaped from cultivation, Georgia to Louisiana. 



Alabama: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. An escape from gardens, and intro- 

 duced with ballast; fairly naturalized. Tuscaloosa County. Autauga County, 

 Prattville. Mobile County. Flowers rose-color; June, July. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Iildiis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cleome viscosa L. Sp. PI. 2 : 672. 1753. Clammy Cleome. 



Ceylon, Malabak, West Aeiuca, introduced in warmer America. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 183. 



Alabama: Adventive with ballast. Mobile. Observed from 1878 to 1895. Flowers 

 yellow; August, September. Annual. Also reported on ballast from Philadelphia. 

 Annual. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Zeylona, Malabaria." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



POLANISIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 : 98. 1819. 



Thirty species, warmer regions of the Old and New World, Northern Hemisphere. 

 Annuals. 



Polanisia trachysperma Torr. & Gray, Fi. N. A. 1: 669. 1840. 



Rough-seeded Polanisia. 



Polanisia iiniglandnlosa Tort. Pac.R. Rep. ^-.67. 1857. Not DC. 



Grav, Man. ed. 6. 75. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 606; ed. 3, 32. Coulter. Contr. Nat. Herb 

 2 : 23.' Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 182. 



Mexico. 



Sporadically diffused over the western part of the continent. Manitoba to Colo 

 rado, Oregon, Arizona, and r< xas. 



Alabama: Metamorphic hills. Waste places. Tallapoosa County, Dadeville, 550 

 feet; only station. Most probably adventive from the southwest. Flowers pink; 

 July. Rare and local. Auniial. 



Type locality : " Taxiis, Dnimmond!'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Polanisia tenuifolia Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 123. 1838. Narrow-leaf Polanisia . 

 Chap. Fl. 31. Graj-, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 182. 1895. 

 Louisianiau area. Coast of Georgia and Florida. 

 Alabama: Sandy hills. Dale County {E. A, Smitk). Annual, 

 Type locality : "Georgia, LeConte!" 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



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