PAESLEY FAMILY. 649 



Alabama: Coosa Valley to Coast plain. Dampsandyor gravelly places. Etowah 

 County, IJallplay, open damp pine tlats. Henry. Franklin, and Mobile counties. 

 Flowers white, .July, August; fruit ripe October. Infrequent; met with more fre- 

 quently in the interior. Annual. 



Type hjcality : " In North America at Red River." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



AMMI L. Sp. PI. 1 : 243. 1753. 



Seven species. Warmer temperate Europe, Asia. 

 Ammi visnaga Lam. Fl. Fr. 3 : 462. 1778. Toothpick Bishop's Weed. 



Meditekraxean Europe, Western Asia, Northern Africa. 



Alabama: Adventive on ballast, Mobile. Flowers white, May, June; fruit ripe 

 August, September. Constant on the same locality for the past ten years without 

 spreading. Biennial. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Type locality: " Cette plante croit dans les Provinces mt^ridionales de la France 

 et dans le Levant." 



Ammi majus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 243. 1753. Greater Bishop's Weed. 



From the same region as the last ; introduced at Mobile, and here and there escaped 

 from gardens. A showy annual 4 or 5 feet high, unfolding its numerous large umbels 

 of white llowers in May and .Tune. Biennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Europa australi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



HYDROCOT YIiE L. Sp. PI. 1 : 234. 1753. 



About 75 species, perennials, widely distributed over warmer regions, chiefly in 

 the Southern Hemisphere. Nortli America, 9. 



Hydrocotyle umbellata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 234. 1753. Water Pennywort. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 346. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211. Chap. Fl. 159. Coulter. Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 149. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. lud. 307. 



West Indies, Mexico, South America, Galapagos Islands. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southeastern New England ; west to Michigan, 

 south along the coast to Florida; west to Texas. 



Alabama : Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Stagnating water, deep ditches, 

 miry pools, often floating. Autauga, Montgomery, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. 

 Flowers in May. Abundant on the wet borders of the river swamps in the coast 

 plain. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hydrocotyle canbyi Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 12 : 103. 1887. 



Canby's Pennywort. 



Hydrocotyle umheUata ambigiia Graj, Man. ed. 5,190. 1867. Not if. amfti^/wa Pursh. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New .Jersey and Maryland. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Muddy borders of ponds. Mobile County ; rare. 



Type locality : "New Jersey to Maryland." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hydrocotyle verticillata Tliunb. Diss. 2 : 415. 1798. Whorled Pennywort. 



Jli/drocotijle interrirpia Muhl. Cat. 30. 1813. 



Eil. Sk. i : 345. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211. Chap. Fl. 159. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:149. 



Mexico, Brazil. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast southern Massachusetts to Florida, west 

 to Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, ami southern California. 



Alabama: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Damp and wet places. Mont- 

 gomery County. Barljour County. Eufaula County {E. A. Smith). Baldwin and 

 Mobile counties; abundant. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. .Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hydrocotyle ranunculoides L. f. Suppl. 177. 1781. Crowfoot-like Pennywort. 

 Ell. Sk. 1 : 346. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211, Chap. Fl. 1.59, Coulter, C(mtr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 149. 



