GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 487 



ISil. Sk. i : 458. Chap. Fl. 386. 



Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Littoral region. Loose sands. Baldwin County, Fish River Bay, shore 

 of Perdido Bay. Flowers white to pink. October, November; not frequent. 

 Shrubby. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Polygonella gracilis (Nutt.) Meiss. in DC. Prodr. 14 : 80. 1856. 



SLENDER JOINTWEED. 

 Polygonum gratile Nutt. Gen. 1 : 255. 1818. 

 Chap. Fl. 387. 

 Louisianian area. On the coast of South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands. Baldwin County, Point Clear. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : " In Georgia? Dr. Baldwyn." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Polygonella americana (Fisch. & Mey.) Small, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 141. 1894. 



AMERICAN JOINTWEED. 



Gonopyrnm americanum Fisch. & Mey., Mem. Acacl. St. Petersb. ser. 6, 4 : 144. 1840. 



Polygonella ericoides Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 5 : 230. 1845. 



P. meissneriana Schuttlew. ; Meiss. in DC. Prodr. 14 : 81. 1856. 



Chap. Fl. 387. 



Carolinian area. Georgia, southwestern Texas (Riddell), Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Limestone hills. Blount County, Warnock Moun- 

 tain, about 1,000 feet altitude (Miss Mary Mohr}. Jackson County, Pisgah. Flowers 

 rose color. August; rare. Perennial. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BRUNNICHIA Banks ; Gaertn. Fruct. 1 : 213, *. 45, f. 2. 1788. 



One species, perennial climber, southern Atlantic North America. 



Brunmchia cirrhosa Banks ; Gaertn. Fruct. 1 : 214, t. 45. 1788. 



LADIES' EAR DROPS. 



Eajania ovata Walt. Fl. Car. 247. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 521. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 444. Chap. Fl. 392. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Gulf coast and southern Atlantic slope to cen- 

 tral Tennessee, southern Illinois; and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the coast, banks of streams, common. Central 

 Prairie region. Lauderdale County, Florence, banks of Tennessee River. Hale, 

 Dallas, Montgomery, and Mobile counties. Flowers greenish white. July, August. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Bahama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CHENOPODIACEAE. Gopsefoot Family. 

 CHENOPODIUM L. Sp. PL 1:218. 1753. GOOSEFOOT. PIGWEED. 



About 50 species, almost cosmopolitan, including some of the most common weeds, 

 numbers of them naturalized in America. About 8 species native in North America. 



Chenopodium album L. Sp. PL 1 : 219. 1753. LAMB'S QUARTERS. 



Ell. Sk. 1:330. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 432. Chap. Fl. 376. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 367. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 46. 



Common weed, introduced from Europe, naturalized over the continent. 



ALABAMA : Throughout the State. In cultivated and waste places. Mobile County, 

 frequent on the sea beach. July. August. Annual. 



Type locality: " Hab. in agris Europae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chenopodium glaucum L. Sp. PI. 1:220. 1753. OAK-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 432. 



Introduced from Europe. Naturalized in New York and New Jersey. 

 ALABAMA : Near dwellings. Baldwin County, Blakely. Annual. 

 Type locality: " Hab. ad Europae n'meta." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



