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RUBIACEAE. Madder Family. 



OLDENLANDIA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 119. 1753. 



About 175 species, auimal and pereiiuial herbs, subtropical aud tropical regions. 

 West ludies, South America. North America. 3. 



Oldenlandia boscii (DC.) Chap. Fl. 181. 1860. 



Hediiofis boscii DC. Prodr. 4 : 420. 1830. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. Gray, Syn. Fl.N.A.l,pt.2:27. 1878. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:160. 



Louisianian area. Soiith Carolina to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Border ponds, ditches. Mobile County. Flowera pale 

 pink, July; not rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : "In Carolina legit cl. Bosc." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohi-. 



Oldenlandia uniflora L. Sp. PI. 1 : Hit. 1753. 



Oldenlandia qlomerala Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 83. 1803. 



Ifediiotis (/lomerata Ell. Sk. 1 : 188. 1817. 



Ell.Sk. I.e. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 224. Chap. Fl. 101, in part. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 27, in part. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 160, in part. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Long Island, New York to Florida, west to 

 Louisiana 



Alabama: Coast plain. Springy sandy places. Mobile County, Chastang's Bluff. 



This pl.int agrees in its essential charactei's with the plant described by Linnaeus 

 and Micliaux, ami subsequently by Pursh and Elliott. A low perennial, the stem 

 prostrate, 6 to 8 inches long, profusely branched from the base; the slender grooved 

 stems hirsute on the angles; the leaves membranaceous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 attenuate toward the base into a winged, ciliate, distinct petiole; the flowers in 

 close axillary and terminal clusters, the calyx lobes foliaceous, longer than the glo- 

 bose, hirsute capsule. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Oldenlandia littoralis Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 27. 1897. 



iZerf^oiis .^/onie/'ato Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 42. 1841. In part. 



Oldenlandia ijlomerata Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 27. 1878. In part. 



0. glomerata Chap. 184, in part. 



Confounded with the last, from which it is, however, clearly distinct. A more 

 robust plant, the stem mostly erect or with a slightly decumbent Ijase, simple or 

 with erect-spreading branches, terete, smooth; the leaves thickish, lanceolate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, sessile, glabrous, only slightly hirsute on the midrib and 

 the margin, i to |^ inch wide, | to f inch long; the flowers mostly in sessile axil- 

 lary clusters, the calyx lobes as long as or shorter than the smoothish capsules. 

 Flowers pearl-blue; September, October. Annual. Plate VIII. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, and west to Mississippi. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Muddy l)anks in the tide-water region, borders of brack- 

 ish and saline swamps. Fre((nently covering large patches on the salty Hats flooded 

 only by the highest tides. Mobile and Baldwin counties. 



Type locality : "Mobile." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HOUSTONIA L. Sp. Pl. 1 : 105. 1753. 



About 25 species, Mexican and North American. Eastern United States and 

 Texas, 17. 



Houstonia caerulea L. Sp. PI. 1 : 105. 1753. Bluets. 



Hediiofis caerulea Hook. Fl. Am. Bor. 1 : 286. 1833. 

 Ell. Sk. 1:192. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 223. Chap. Fl. 180. Gray, Syn. Fl.N. A. 1, pt. 2:24. 



Mexico. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, New 

 England, west to Michigan; Ohio Valley south to upper Georgia. 



Alabama : Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Upper division Coast Pine belt. 

 Open woods, pastures. I^auderdale County,. Florence. Cullman County, 800 feet. 

 Jefferson County, near Birmingham. Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Flowers 



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