PURSLANE FAMILY. 495 



ASIA, AFRICA, WEST INDIES TO ARGENTINA. 



Lonisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and California. 



ALABAMA : Sandy sea beaches exposed to the waves. Mobile County, Sand Island. 

 Flowers red. December; not common. Perennial. 



The prostrate and ascending stems, many from the same rootstock, and from 8 to 

 12 inches long, cover large patches. 



Type locality (L. Sp. PI. ed. 2) : " Hab. in Indiae maritimis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sesuvium revolutifolium Ortega, Hort. Matrit. 19. 1800. 



Sesuvium sessile Pers. Syn. 2 : 39. 1805. 



S. portulacastrum DC. Hist. PL Grass, t. 9. 



S. portulacastrum var. subsessile Gray, PI. Wright. 1 : 13. 1853. 



South America; North America, alkali plains of western Texas to southeastern 

 California. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast, Mobile County, September, 1892. Annual. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sesuvium maritimum (Walt.) B. S. P. Prel. Cat. Fl. N. Y. 20. 1888. SEA PURSLANE. 



Pharnaceum maritimum Walt. Fl. Car. 117. 1788. 



Sesuvium pentandrum Ell. Sk. 1 : 556. 1817. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 198. Chap. Fl. 44. 



Carolinian and Lonisianian areas. Seacoast from Long Island to Florida, west 

 to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Saline pools on sandy beaches. Mobile County, Dau- 

 phin Island. Flowers greenish white. August ; not frequent. Annual? 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PORTULACACEAE. Purslane Family. 



PORTULACA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 445. 1753. 



About 16 species, of warmer temperate and tropical regions, chiefly American. 

 North America, 10; west of the Mississippi, 5; Eastern Atlantic States, 2. 



Portulaca oleracea L. Sp. PL 1 : 445. 1753. COMMON PURSLANE. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 534. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 90. Chap. Fl. 44. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 74. 



Cosmopolitan. Widely and abundantly diffused in temperate regions. Doubt- 

 fully indigenous in the Atlantic region of North America. Naturalized from southern 

 Ontario to the Gulf and across the continent. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. In cultivated ground. Flowers yellow; May to Sep- 

 tember. Ripens its seeds to the close of the season. Common everywhere. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Europa australi, India, Insula Ascensionis, America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Portulaca pilosa L. Sp. PL 1 : 445. 1753. RED-FLOWERING PURSLANE. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 91. Chap. Fl. 44. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 32. Wats. Bot. 

 Calif. 1 : 74. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 57. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO PERU, BRAZIL. 



Louisianian area. From Texas to Florida and North Carolina; also California. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region to Central Pine belt. Dry sandy places. Mobile 

 County, Grand Bay, about dwellings. Autauga County, Prattville (E. A. Smith) 

 Flowers July, August. Annual. 



Apparently introduced from the tropics. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America meridional!." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



TALINTJM Adans. Fam. PL 2 : 245. 1763. 



Fifteen species, warmer parts America, West Indies to Brazil. United States, 8 ; 

 Southern States, 1. 



Talinum teretifolium Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 365. 1814. PURPLE TALINUM. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 535. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 91. Chap. Fl. 44. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Southeastern New York; Pennsylvania south 

 to North Carolina and Georgia, northwest from Indiana to Minnesota, Nebraska, 

 Arkansas, and Colorado. 



