0)04 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Sonthfrn Illinois, Houtlieru Missouri, south to 

 Texas and cast to Florida and youth Carolina. 



.Vi.aiiama: Prairie re;fion. Ilry prairies. Wilcox County {S. />'. liiickUy). Tus- 

 caloosa County (A'. .). Smith). Flowers rose-purple, showy; March, April. K'are; 

 tVeciucntly culti\ ated. I'ercunial. 



Type locality : '' Hal), in Virjjiuia." 



Herb. Geol. iSurv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbena rigida Si)renL'. Syst. Ve>:. 4, pt. 2: 230. 1827. Kicii) ^■EI:l!l•:NA. 



Wrhena venom (lill tV Hook, in Hook. Hot. Misc. 1: 167. 1830. 



Introduced tioni Hrazil and escaped from cultivation. Naturalized on the Gulf 

 coast and iu southern Texas. 



Alabama: Mobile County, roadsides, waste places near dwellings. Flowers 

 carmine; April, May. Not infrequent. Perennial. 



Tyjie locality : "Kio Grande. Sello." (Brazil.) 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbena bonariensis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 28. 1762. 



Adventive from southern Brazil, Argentina. 



Ai-ahama: Mobile County, fugitive on ballast. Flowers purplish; July. A coarse 

 branching plant, 2 to 3 feet high. Observed lirst July, 1S!)3, and subsecjuent seasons; 

 s])reading to roadsides. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in agro Bonariensi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbena tenera Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2 : 750. 1827. 



Adventive from southern Brazil, Argentina. 



Alabama: Mobile County, fugitive on ballast (Hunter's Wharf). Flower deep 

 blue; August, September. 1893-1895. Low creeping, the sunVuticosestem 1 to 2 feet 

 long. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Montevideo. Sello." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbena canescens H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2 : 274, 1. 136. 1814. 



Adventive from Mexico. 



Mobile County, on ballast heaps. June to November, 1892-1891. Flowers lilac. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality : "Crescit in montlbus Mexicanorum, prope Guanaxuato, Marlil et 

 fodinam Belgrado, alt. 1000-1250 hex." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



ABENA Xec.ker, Elem. Bot. 1. 1790. 

 (Stachytarpheta Vahl, Ennm. 1 : 205. 1805.) 



About 10 species, tropical America. 

 Abena janiaicen.sis (L.) A. S. Hitchcock in Trelease, Rep. Mo. Bot. (iard. 1893. 



Verbena javiaicennis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 19. 1753. 



Stachytarpheta jamaicensiH Vahl, Enum. 1 : 206. 1805. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 334. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 494. 



West Indies, South Amkrica. 



Louisianian area. Southern Florida. 



Alabama: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile County, September, 1893. Not observed 

 since. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Jamaica et Caribaeis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BOUCHEA Cham. Liunaea, 7 : 253. 1832. 



Tropical regions of Africa, India, America. 

 Bouchea prismatica (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 502. 1891. 

 Verbena prismatica L. Sp. PI. 1 : 19. 1753. 

 Stachi/tarplirla jn-ismaliia Xsihl, Enum. 1 : 205. 1805. 

 Bouchea ehrcnhcrtjii Cham. Linuaea, 7:253. 1832. 

 Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 334. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 493. 



