498 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



VACCARIA Medic. Phil. Bot. 1 : 96. 1789. 



Vaccaria vaccaria (L.) Britton in Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 2 : 18. 1897. COWHERB. 



Saponaria raccaria L. Sp. PI. 1 : 409. 1753. 



Vaccaria vulgaris Host. Fl. Aust. 1 : 518. 1827. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 83. 



Adventive from Europe. Occasionally met with in Canada and throughout the 

 Atlantic States, and in Colorado. 



ALABAMA: Mobile County, cultivated ground. Flowers May, June; pink. Rare. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. inter segetes Galliae, Gerinaniae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SAG-INA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 128. 1753. PEARLWOKT. 



About 12 species, temperate regions of Europe and North America. 

 Sagina decumbens (Ell.) Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 177. 1838. 



Spergula decumbens Ell. Sk. 1 : 523. 1817. 



Gray, Man . ed. 6, 89. Chap. Fl. 48 ; ed. 3, 41. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York west to southern Illinois and Mis- 

 souri, south to North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and southern Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Central Pine belt. Pastures, roadsides. Cullman 

 County. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers April ; rare. Annual. 



Type locality: " Grows in fields and pastures [South Carolina and Georgia]." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sagina decumbens smithii (Gray) Wats. Bibl. Index, 105. 1878. 



Sagina subulata smitkii Gray, Man. ed. 5, 95. 1867. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 89. 1890. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of New Jersey to Florida, west to 

 Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. In dry sandy soil. Barren 

 fields, roadsides. Montgomery and Mobile counties. Flowers March, April; very 

 common. Annual. 



The plants examined from the lower countries of Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi 

 belong to this variety. From the remark of Elliott, " Seeds roughish under a 

 strong microscope," it appears that some of the plants under his type belong to this 

 variety. 



Type locality: "Near Philadelphia, in waste ground, and sandy fields, &c., Soiners 

 Point, N.J." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CERASTIUM L. Sp. PL 1 : 437. 1753. 



Fifty to 60 species of the temperate regions Northern Hemisphere. North Amer- 

 ica, 9. 



Cerastium longipedunculatum Muhl. Cat. 46. 1813. NODDING CHICKWKKD. 



Cerastium nutans Raf. Prec. Decouv. 36. 1814. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 88. Chap. Fl. 50. 



MEXICO. 



! 1 1 idsni i i a n zone to Carolinian area. Nova Scotia and Ontario to Hudsous Bay, Brit- 

 ish Columbia, and Vancouver; New England west to Minnesota, Nebraska, the 

 Rocky Mountains, and Washington, south to Ohio, Tennessee, and North Carolina. 



ALABAMA : Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers white. May; 

 rare. Annual. 



Type locality : " Pensylvania." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Herb. Mohr. 

 Cerastium viscosum L. Sp. PL 1 : 437. 1753. MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED. 



Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. FL Paris, ed. 2, 226. 1796. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 88. Chap. FL 50. 



EUROPE. 



Widely spread over North America from Canada to the Gulf. Most probably 

 introduced. 



