PLANTAIN FAMILY. 735 



Alabama: Tenueasee Valley to Coast plain. Gently-flowing water. Cullman 

 County, 800 feet altitude. Mobile County. Flowers azure; June. Frequent. 

 Type locality : "Hab. in Virsiinia." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Diauthera ovata Walt. Fl. Car. 63. 1788. Low Water Willow. 



Jiistkia hiunUis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 8. 1803. 



IHanthera humilis Engelm. & Gray; Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, \)t. 1 : 329. 



Chap. Fl. 304. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1. c. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb 2 : 324. 



Louisianian area. Lower South Carolina to Florida, Avest to Texas and Arkansas. 



Alaha.ma: Coast plain. Wet muddy banks of streams, shaded ditches, shallow 

 ]»ool8. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers blue; July to September. Not in- 

 frefjuent. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Dianthera ovata lanceolata Chaj). Fl. 304. 1860. 



Louisianian area. Florida. 



Alabama: Upper division Coast Pine belt. Muddy banks. Wilcox County. Allen- 

 ton, June 27, 1893. 



Type locality: "River banks, Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



YEATBSIA Small. Bull. Torr. Club. 23 : 410. 1896. 



(Gatesia Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 13 : 365. 1878. Not Bertol. 1848.) 



Perennial monotype, south Atlantic America. 

 Yeatesia laetevirens (Buckley) Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 410. 1896. 



Rhytujlosm viridiflora Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 9 : 346. 1840. 



Justicia laetevirens Buckley, Am. Journ. Sci. 45 : 176. 1843. 



DicUptera halei Riddell, N. Orl. Med. Journ. 1852. (Cat. Fl. Lu<l.) Chap. Fl. 305. 

 1860. 



Gatesia laetevirens Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 13 : 365. 1878. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 330. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 325. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Louisiana to western Texas. 



Alabama: Lower hills. Central Prairie region. Rich copses, Itorders of woods. 

 Bibb County, Pratt's Ferry. Montgomery County, banks of Pintlalla Creek. Flow- 

 ers pale purple; June, July. Said to open in the night, the corolla dropping early 

 next day {Dr. Cahell) 



Type locality: "Near rivers in shady woods, Wilcox Co., Alabama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PL ANT AGIN ACE AE, Plantain FamUy. 



PLANTAGO L.Sp. PI. 1:112. 1753. Plantain. 



About 200 species, mostly temperate regions. 

 Plantago major L. Sp. PI. 1 : 112. Common Wayside Plantain. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 423. Chap. Fl. 277. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 389. 



Europe, North Africa, Northekn and Western Asia. 



Naturalized from Europe. Almost throughout the continent. 



Alabama : Over the State. Low waste places near d wellings, waysides, borders of 

 ditches. Flowers May to August; common. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europa ad vias." 



Herb. (ieol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Plantago cordata Lam. Tabl. 1 : 338. 1796. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 389. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 423. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana. 



Alabama: Fide Gray. 



Tyi)e locality : "E Canada." 



Plantago rugelii Decsne. in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1:700. 1852. 



I'lantat/o major Ell. Sk. 1 :201. 1817. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. ' Gray, Man. ed. 6, 423. Chap. Fl. 277. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 389. 

 Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 :344. 



