494 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Dry hills. Montgomery County. Flowers 

 white or pale pink. July to September; local and rare. Perennial. 

 Type locality : "South Carolina." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Allionia nyctaginea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 100. 1803. 



HEART-LEAF UMHRELLAWC >i; i . 



Oxybaphus nyctagineus Sweet, Hort. Brit. 429. 1&;0. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6,425. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 644; ed. 3, 393. Coulter, Coiitr. Nat. 

 Herb.' 2: 351. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Manitoba to northern Saskatchewan: Min- 

 nesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, aud western Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Tennessee basin. Rocky dry copses, border of 

 woods. Madison County, Montesano, about 1,000 feet. Flowers purplish red. May, 

 June; rare. Perennial. 



Stem simple, 12 to 15 inches high, from a stout cylindrical rootstock. 



Type locality: "Hab. ad ripas fluminis Tennass6e." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BOERHAVIA L. Gen. PL ed. 5, 4. 1753. 



About 20 species, annuals, tropical and subtropical zones. North America, 19; 

 western Texas, 15 ; South Atlantic States, 3. 



Boerhavia erecta L. Sp. PL 1 : 3. 1753. ERECT BOEKHAVI A. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 41. Chap. PL 373. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 356. Griseb. Fl. Brit. 

 W. Ind. 69. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Dry cultivated and war.tc 

 places, about dwellings. Flowers pale red. July to October; common. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Vera Cruce." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Boerhavia hirsuta Willd. Phyt. no. 3. 1794. HAIRY BOERHAVIA. 



Chap. Fl. 373. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 356. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 69. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO GUIANA, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. 



Louisianian area. Southern Florida. Southwestern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive from the tropics. On ballast ground, Mobile County, Sep- 

 tember, 1893. 



Type locality (Willd. Sp. PL) : " Hab. in siccis arenosis Jamaicae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



AIZOACEAE. Figwort Family. 

 MOLLUGO L. Sp. PL 1 : 89. 1753. INDIAN CHICKWEED. 



About 1 dozen species, in warmer parts of the globe. 

 Mollugo verticillata L. Sp. PL 1 : 89. 1753. CARPETWEED. 



Ell. Sk. 1:183. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 198. Chap. FL 48. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 138. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 56. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO ARGENTINA. 



Naturalized and widely diffused through temperate and warmer North America. 

 From Ontario to the Columbia River, south to the Gulf and southern California. 



ALABAMA: All over the State. In cultivated and waste ground. June to October. 

 Common. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Africa, Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SESUVIUM L. Syst. ed. 10, 1058. 1759. 



Four species of the seacoast and inland saline places in warm regions. North 

 America, 2 or 3 species. 



Sesuvium portulacastnim Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1058. 1759. LARGER SEA PUKSLANE. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 555. Chap. Fl. 44. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 137. Wats. Bot. Calif. 

 1 : 251. Griseb. FL Brit. W. Ind. 57. 



Widely distributed on the seacoasts of tropical and subtropical regions. 



