496 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. On exposed rocks. Clay County, Baldrock, 2,200 feet. 



Blount County, Warnocl 

 Flowers rose purple, July 



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Cullman County, 800 feet (Misses Emily and Mary Mohr). Blount County, Warnock 

 Mountains, 1,000 feet. Walker County, Clear Creek Falls. Flo 

 not frequent, local. Perennial. 



Type locality : "On sunny rocks: Delaware and Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CLAYTONIA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 204. 1753. 



About 20 species, perennials, boreal and temperate regions, cbiefly western North 

 America. Atlantic United States, 2. 



Claytonia virginica L. Sp. PI. 1 : 204. 1753. VIRGINIAN SPRING BEAUTY. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 306. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 91. Chap. Fl. 44. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario to 

 Saskatchewan and Alaska; New England west to Minnesota and Nebraska, south 

 throughout the Ohio Valley, west to Missouri and Arkansas, and from Virginia along 

 the mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Tennessee basin. In rich copses and open woods. 

 Lawrence County, Moultou. Jackson County, Scottsboro. Flowers white or pale 

 rose. April, May; rare. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ALSINACEAE. Pink Family. 



AGROSTEMMA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 435. 1753. 



Agrostemma githago L. Sp. PI. 1 : 435. 1753. CORN-COCKLE. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 85. Chap. Fl. 52. 



Introduced from Europe with grain. Canada throughout the Eastern Atlantic and 

 Gulf States, sparingly diffused southward. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Roadsides, borders of fields. Tuscaloosa County. 

 Mobile County, ballast ground. Flowers purple. June, July; not frequent. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. inter Europae segetes." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SILENE L.Sp. PI. 1:416. 1753. 



Three hundred and more species, temperate regions Northern Hemisphere; most 

 frequent in the Old World. Europe, 150 species, North America, about 30; of these 

 nearly one-third adventive from Europe. Western North America 16, Atlantic 

 States about 15, indigenous 9. 



Silene stellata (L.) Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 3 : 84. 1811. STARRY CAMPION. 



Cuculalus stellatus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 414. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 1: 514. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 84. Chap. Fl. 51. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Rhode Island west to Minnesota, Colorado, and 

 Utah, south to the Ohio Valley and Arkansas, and along the mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Central Pine belt. Rich shaded banks. Clay 

 County, Emory's Gap, 1,600 feet. Cullman County, 800 feet. Bibb County. Tusca- 

 loosa County/400 feet (E. A. Smith). Flowers white. July, August; not common. 

 Perennial. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Silene ovata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 316. 1816. SOUTHERN CAMPION. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 517. Chap. Fl. 51. Torr. & Gray, PI. N. A. 1 : 190. 



Carolinian and Lomsianian areas. Mountains of North Carolina to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Central Prairie region. Dry sandy banks. Mont- 

 gomery County, ravines on Chinquapin Hill. Cullmau County (Miss M. Mohr). 

 Flowers white. August; rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : "In the western part of Georgia and Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Silene rotundifolia Nutt. Gen. 1 : 288. 1818. ROUND-LEAVED CAMPION. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 84. Chap. Fl. 51. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Kentucky ; Tennessee, Cumberland Mountains. 

 ALABAMA: Mountain region. Shady rocks. Winston County, Colliers Creek, 1,500 



