452 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



BURMANNIACEAE. Burmannia Family. 



BURMANNIA L. Sp. PL 1 : 287. 1753. 



Twenty species, mostly in tropical regions of both hemispheres. Southeastern 

 North America, 2. Tiny, almost leafless, saprophytic annuals. 



Burmannia biflora L. Sp. PI. 1 : 287. 1753. TWO-FLOWERED BURMANNIA. 



Tripterella caerulea Nutt. Gen. 1 : 22. 1818. 



Ell. Sk. 1:43. Gray, Man. eel. 6,497. Chap. Fl. 451. Coulter, Contr. Nat. llerl. 

 2:422. 



WEST INDIES. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia to Florida, west to eastern 

 Texas. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Peaty soil of pine barrens. Mobile 

 County, Spriughill. Flowers lavender blue. October, November. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginiae palndosis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Burmannia capitata Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1 : 12. 1824. CAPITATE BURMANNIA. 



Vogelia capitata Gmelin, Syst. 107. 1791. 



Tripterella capitata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am 1 : 19, t. 3. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 43. Chap. Fl. 452. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 606. 



WEST INDIES, CAYENNE, BRAZIL. 



Louisianian area. From Florida to North Carolina, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Boggy pine barrens. Mobile and Baldwin counties. 

 Flowers lavender blue. October, November ; frequent. 



Type locality: " Hab. in udis Carolinae etiamque Cayeunae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



APTERIA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 64, t. 0. 1834. 



Three species, saprophytes, of tropical and subtropical America. 



Apteria setacea Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 64, t. 9. 1834. LILAC APTKRIA. 



Apteria Ulacina Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. 18 : 144. 1841. 



Chap. Fl. 452. 



WEST INDIES TO TROPICAL BRAZIL. 



Louisianian area. Florida to Georgia, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Nhaded banks among decayed leaves. Mobile County, 

 Bayou La Batre. Baldwin County, Stockton. Flowers, like the whole plant, tinged 

 with lilac. July to September; not frequent. Perennial. 



Clearly subsisting on decomposing vegetable matter. The rootlets of the numerous 

 contorted stems have never been found in organic connection with the roots of the 

 surrounding herbaceous or woody plants. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ORCHIDACEAE. Orchis Family. 



CYPRIPEDIUM L. Sp. PI. 2 : 951. 1753. 



About 50 species, perennials, Europe, Asia, temperate Mexico, Central America. 

 North America, 12. 



Cypripedium hirsutum Mill. Diet. ed. 8, no. 3. 1768. LAR<;K LADY'S SMIM-KK. 



Cypripedium calceolus ft L. Sp. PI. 2 : 951. 1753. 



C. pubescens Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 143. 1805. 



Ell. Sk. 2:508. Gray, Man ed.6,511 Chap. Fl. 464. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and 

 Ontario to the Rocky Mountains; New England, west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and 

 Colorado; throughout the Eastern States, south along the mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Upper division of Coast Pine belt. Rich woods. 

 Madison County, Montesano. Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Flowers dingy yel- 

 low. April; infrequent. 



