492 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO ARGENTINA. 



Louisianian area. Coast of South Carolina to southern Florida. 

 ALABAMA : Adventive on ballast. Mobile County, September, 1886 to 1895. Peren- 

 nial. 



Type locality : " In America littoribus maris." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Alternanthera pungens H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2 : 206. 1817. 



Telanthera pungens Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 2 : 371. 1849. 



Alternanthera achyrantha var. leianlha Mart. Fl. Bras. 5, pt. 1 : 183, t. 55. 1855. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive from the West Indies on ballast heaps. Mobile County. 

 August to October. Flowers white; perennial. Observed for a series of years until 

 destroyed. 



Type locality : " Crescit in ripa Orinoci prope nobilem cataractam Maypurensium." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Alternanthera repens (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 536. 1891. FOHTY KNOT. 



Achyranthes repens L. Sp. PI. 1 : 225. 1753. 



Alternanthera achyrantha R. Br. Fl. Nov. Holl. 413. 1810. 



lllecebrum achyrantha Walt. Fl. Car. 103. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1:309. Chap. Fl. 382. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 67. Coulter, Contr. Nat, 

 Herb. 2: 361. 



In most of the warmer regions of the globe. 



WEST INDIES TO ARGENTINA, SOUTHERN EUROPE, ASIA. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry exposed places near dwellings. Mobile, pavements 

 and sidewalks, streets of the city. Flowers white. August to November. Peren- 

 nial. 



Economic uses : The herb is used domestically as a medicine. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Turcomannia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



TEL ANTHER A R. Br. in Tuckey, Congo Exp. 477. 1818. 



About 56 species, littoral plants; perennials. West Indies to Brazil. 

 Telanthera philoxeroides 'acutifolia Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 2 : 363. 1849. 



Mart. Fl. Bras. 5, pt. 1 : t. 51, f. 11. 



Stem slender, 2 or 3 feet long, decumbent, rooting iu the mud; lower part sub- 

 mersed, upper part ascending; round, hollow, fleshy, pubescent in lines and at the 

 internodes, else smooth like the opposite, oblong-lanceolate, slightly acuminate 

 leaves which are attenuated at the base into :i> short, broad, pubescent petiole. 

 Flowers white in roundish heads, borne near the apex of the stems on a stout pedun- 

 cle shorter than the leaves. The scarious bracts ovate, cuspidate, shorter than the 

 5-carinate, 3-nerved, acute, glabrous sepals. 



WEST INDIES, BRAZIL. 



ALABAMA: Stagnating tide-water streams. Mobile County. One-mile Creek, near 

 its mouth, filling completely the bed of the creek. Flowers white. September, 1S1>7. 

 Adventive. 



Type locality: "In Brasilia^ prope S. Paul civitatem, *, circa Buhiaiu 



% prope Buenos- Ayres." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ACHYRANTHES L. Sp. PL 1 : 204. 1753. 



Tropical and subtropical regions. 

 Achyranthes aspera obtusifolia (Lam.) Griseb. PL Brit. W. Ind. 62. 1864. 



AchyrantJtes obtusifolia Lam. Encycl. 1 : 545. 1783. 



WEST INDIES, UNITED STATES, EAST INDIES. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive from the neighboring tropics. Mobile County, ballast 

 grounds. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Cette plante crott naturellement dans 1'Inde." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CELOSIA L. Sp. PL 1:205. 1753. 

 About 35 species, tropical zone. 

 Celosia margaritacea L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 1 : 297. 1762. 

 Fugitive from the tropics, on ballast. Mobile County. Annual. 

 Type locality : " Hab. in America. " 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



