BROOM RAPE FAMILY. 731 



Alabama : Lower Pine region anil Coast plain. Low, wet, grasay pine barrens. 

 Escamliia County, Wilson's Station. Mobile County, Bayou Labatre. Flowers deeji 

 yellow; September. Frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Cajenna. liichard; Portorico. IVest." 



Herb. Geol. Sur\\ Herb. Mohr. 



Utricularia subulata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 18. 1753. Setaceous Blaodkrwort. 



rtricularia setacea Miclix. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 12. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 23. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 397. Chap. Fl. 283. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 

 316. Coulter, Contr. iSTat. Herb. 2 : 317. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 391. 



West Indiks, Mexico to Brazil. 



Carolinian and Lonisianian areas. From New Jersey to Florida and Texas near 

 the coast. 



Alabama : Throughout the Coast Pine belt and Coast plain. In sandy wet places. 

 Borders of springs, very common. Flowers from April throughout the summer. 

 The leaf and bladder-bearing radical shoots form, before the development of the 

 scapes, dense green tufts which disappear before the spring season is over. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



OROBANCHACEAE. Broom Rape Family. 



THALESIA Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 2 : 267. 1818. 



(Apiiyllon Gray, Man. 290. 1848.) 



About 3 species, root parasites. Atlantic North America, 2. 



Thalesia uniflora (L.) Brittou, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:298. 1894. 



One-1'lowerrd Cancer Root. 



Orohmiche miiiiora L. Sp. PL 2 : 633. 1753. 



AphiiUon uniflorum Torr. & liray; Gray, Man. 290. 1848. 



ElLSk. 2:135. (kav, Man. ed. 6, 394. Chap. Fl. 287. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 2, pt. 1: 

 312. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 316. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 584. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Newfountlland and Ontario to Lake Superior, 

 and through British Columbia to Vancouver Island, Oregon, and California. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Dry gravelly hillsides. Cullman Countj' (Miss M. 

 Mohr) ; rare. Parasitic on roots of various i^iants. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CONOPHOLIS Wallr. Orob. 78. 1825. Root Parasite. 



Single species. United States. Mexico. 

 Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr. Orob. 78. 1825. Squaw Root. 



Orohanche americana L. Mant. 1 : 88. 1767. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 135. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 394. Chaj). Fl. 286. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. ?, 

 pt. 1 : 313. 



Alleghenian to Carolinian area. Ontario and New England west to central Mich- 

 igan, south to the Ohio Valley, North Carolina, and Florida {Chapman). 



Alabama: Mountain region. Lower hills. Shady rich woods, auiong decaying 

 leaves. Madison County, Huntsvilli', 1,000 feet. Cullman County. Flowers in 

 April. Rootstocks forming dense clusters, undoubtedly parasitic on rootlets of 

 slirubs, etc. Never observed in the low country. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina ad radices arborum et fruticum. Garden." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LEPTAMNIUM Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 2 : 267. February, 1818. 

 (Epifagus Nutt. Gen. 2 : 60. 1818.) 

 Single species, root parasite, Eastern North America. 



Leptamnium virginianum (L.; Raf.; Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1:314. 1878. As 

 synonym. Beech-drop.s. 



Orobanche rirginiana L. Sp. PI. 2:633. 1753. 

 Epifagus americana Nutt. Gen. 2 : 60. 1818. 



