r>Or> rr.VNT 7, IKK OK ALAHAMA. 



Euphorbia gaiberi llu^'rlin. ; Cliaii. Kl. Suiipl. illil. IHtiU. C.mjmkh's Si-i'K(iK. 



Chap. Kl.t(l.:{, 12."). 



Loiiisianian uruii. Soiilhern Khiriihi. 



Ai.ai»a.ma: CoaHt phiin. Wasto i)liici',s, dry saixly or j;ravrlly noil. Mohilo County, 

 oil f ho hanks of the Mohilo Hiver near < (uc-niilc Creok. Kh)\ver8 July to September. 

 Annual. 



I'erliapH advenlivo willi hallast. Ahnndiiut in tliis h)cality. 



'iVjio locality: "Sandy coast, South Florida. " 



llorh. <iool. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euphorbia maculata L. Sp. I'l. 1 : 155. 1758. Si-ohkd SiMK<iK. 



Euphorbia tlnimifoliii Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : (iOG. ISIJ. 



Kll.sk. 2: ti.')'!. (iray. Man. id. 6, 453. Chap. Fl. JOS. Ccnilter, Contr. Nat. llerh. 

 2 : 3S!t. 



AIloKhenian to Loni.sianian area. New England west to the Dak otas, Nebraska, 

 Colorailo, Missouri, Arkansas, and southward to the Gnlf from Florida to Texas. 



Ai..\itAMA: Over the Slate. Roadsides, waste places, fields. July to November; 

 common everywhere. Annual. 



Type locality: "flab, in America septentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. lleih. Mohr. 



Euphorbia nutans Lag. Gen. & Sp. 17. 1816. Fiki.d Si'i K(;k. 



K\iphorhia prenlii Gnss. Fl. Sice. Prodr. .539. 1S27. 



IJ. In/jiericifoUa many American authors. Not L. 



JJ. In/pericifolia var. comiuunis 1-ngelm. Hot. .Mex. Hound. ISX. 1853. 



Ell. Sk. 2:6.54. Grav, Man. ed. 6, 453. Chap. Fl. 403; ed. 3, 425. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2:387. 



Ckxtral America, Eciapor. 



AUeghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario; Now England west to Pakotas, 

 Nebraska, Arkansas, and Teyas, and throughout the States east of the Mississippi. 



Alabama: Over the State. Fields, cultivated ground. Common. Annual. 



Type h)cality : "Hab. in N. H." (i. e. NovaHispania). 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Euphorbia pilulifera discolor Engelm. in Torr. Hot. Mex. Pound. 188. 1859. 



Varikgated Spurge. 



Diffuse, loaves very obli([uo at the base, subrhomboidal, sharply serrate, purplish- 

 spotted; stijuiles sul)ul;ite; capsule small, pilose; seeds minute, ovate, acute, uu- 

 dubite-tuberculate. Stems + to 1 foot long, leaves from 1 to 1^ inches long. Differs 

 in shape and color of leaves from the usual forms of Knpliorhia pilnli/eia; involucre 

 only I line long, heads 3 to 4 lines in diameter; seeds scarcely more than ^ line 

 long. 



Our plant differs slightly in its assurgent to erect stem, and its seeds with a few 

 faint rugae and faintly punctate. The densely flowered cymulos are on peduncles 2 

 to 3 lines long; the appendages of the jiilose involucre are small, red. 



SoNoiiA ( 'JTiurber). 



Louisianian area. Florida and Texas. 



Alabama: Coast plain. In cultivated and waste grounds. Flowers throughout 

 the summer and fall. Annual. 



During the past ten years extensively spreading and becoming a troublesome gar- 

 den weed. 



Type locality: "Sonora; Thurher, Jrn«//j<, No. 1842, in part. Mr. BJodgett foxxndi it 

 in Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euphorbia marginata Pursb, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 607. 1814. 



Largk Flowering Spurge. 

 firay, Man. ed. 6, 4.54. 

 AUeghenian and Carolinian areas. Ohio to Minnesota and Colorado. 



Alabama: Escaped from cultivation. Autauga County, Prattville (A'. A. Smith). 

 Annual. 



Type locality: " On the Yellowstone River. M. Lewis." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Euphorbia corollata L. Sp. I'l. 1 : 459. 17.53. Flowering Spurge. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 659. fJray, Man. ed. 6, 454. Chap. Fl. 400. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 391. 



AUeghenian, Carolinian, and Lt)uisiauian areas. New York west to Nebraska, 

 south ti> Texas antl Florida. 



