ST. JOHNS- WORT FAMILY. 619 



MELOCHIA L. Sp. PL 2 : i«2. 1753. 



About 35 species, mostly of tropical America. 

 Melochia corchorifolia L. Sp. PL 2: 675. 1753. IIirsttte Mklochia. 



Mdochia hirsutu Chap. Fl. Siippl. 610. 1883. Not Cav. 



Chap. H. SuppL 610; ed. 3, 54. 



Wkst Indies to Brazil. 



Louisianian aiea. Southern Georgia, naturalized. 



Alahama: Coast plain. Adventive on ballast. Mobile. Flowers purplish, July 

 to September; fruit ripe October. A perennial weed, first observed on newly broken 

 ground in the suburbs of Mobile, October, 1874. Subsequeutly seen on ballast, and 

 since 1882 spreading abundantly in cultivated ground, where it has become a per- 

 nicious weed, very injurious to the hay crop. 



Type locality: "Hab. in India." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



"WALTHERIA L. Sp. PL 2 : 673. 1753. 



Sixteen species, tropical America. Perennials. 

 "Waltheria americana 1^. Sp. PI. 2 : 673. 1753. American Waltiieria. 



Chap. Fl. 59. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 95. 



West Indies, Mexico to Brazil. 



Tropical Florida. 



Alabama: Adventive with ballast. Mobile, September, 1892-93. Not observed 

 lately. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Bahama, Barbiches, Suriuamo." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HYPERICACEAE. St. Johns-wort Family.' 



ASCYRUM L. Sp. PI. 2 : 788. 1753. 



Five species, undershrubs, warmer temperate regions. West Indies, Mexico, Atlan- 

 tic North America. 

 Ascyrum multicaule Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 77. 1803. St. Andrew's Cross. 



Jscyntm crux-andreae L. Sp. PL 2: 788. 1753. In part, and of most American 

 authors. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 22, in part. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 92, in part. Chap. FL 38, in part ; ed. 3, 56. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England west to southern 

 Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska, south to the Gulf, from Florida to Louisiana and 

 Arkansas. 



Alabama : Damp and dry borders of woods, open copses. Lauderdale County. 

 Morgan County, Falkville. Cullman County. Tuscaloosa County {E. A. Smith). 

 Clarke, Monroe, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers July to October. Shrubby 

 at the base, 2 to 3 feet high. A low form with compact branches, and smaller 

 glaucous leaves occurs on dry hills in the mountainous region. Clay County, 

 Delta, 1,700 feet. 



Considering the confusion existing between .Jsci/ritmcrxx-onrf/eae and./. /(//^jejicoWes 

 L., the first of these names has been reidaced by Hypericum mnlticauh' Michx. This 

 species embraces all the northern forms described under J. crux-andreae and those of 

 the same specific characters occurring southward. 



Type locality: "Hab iu Virginia, Carolina." 



Herl). Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 



Ascyrum hypericoides L. Sp. PL ed. 2 : 1107. 1763. Southern St. Pktek's-wort. 

 Ascyrum crux-andreae var. anf/ustifolium Nutt. Gen. 2 : 16. 1818 ( f ) 

 A. crux-andreae of most Southern authors. 

 Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 34. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 112. 



West Indies, Mexico. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and southern Arkansas. 



Alabama : Lower Pine region. Sandy pine barrens in dry and damp soil, 

 Escambia, Washington, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers July to Septem- 

 ber; frequent. Densely branched shrub 1^ to 2 feet high. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia, .Jamaica." 



Herb. Geol, Surv, Herb. Mohr, 



