PINK FAMILY. 501 



TISSA Adans. Fam. PI. 2 : 507. 1763. 

 (SPERGULARIA Pers. Syn. 1 : 504. 1805. ) 



About 20 species. Seacoast and saline inland stations of temperate regions, 

 Northern Hemisphere. North America, 6. 



Tissa marina (L.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 16 : 127. 1889. SAND SPURRY. 



Arenaria rubra var. marina L. Sp. PI. 1 : 423. 1753. 



Spergularia salina Presl, Fl. Cech. 95. 1819. 



Buda marina Dumort. Fl. Belg. 110. 1827. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 89. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 71. 1876. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 30. 

 1891. 



EUROPE, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, seashore ; saline 

 plains west to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, and California; New England 

 along the seashore to Florida, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Brackish sands. Mobile County, West Fowl River. 

 Fruit purplish. May. Seeds with rough projections, scarcely margined. Rare. 

 Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in litoribus marinis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Tissa rubra (L.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 16: 127. 1889. PINK SAND SPURRY. 



Arenaria rubra L. Sp. PI. 1 : 423. 1753. 



Spergularia rubra Presl, Fl. Cech. 93. 1819. 



Buda rubra Dumort. Fl. Belg. 110. 1827. 



Chap. Fl. 48. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 89. 



EUROPE. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; New England 

 south to Virginia and Florida. 



ALABAMA : Adventive on ballast. Mobile County, found once. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europae arenosis collibus." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



STIPULICIDA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 26. 1803. 



A single species, southern United States. 

 Stipulicida setacea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 26, t. 6. 1803. TINY STIPULICIDA. 



Ell. Sk. 1:51. Chap. Fl. 47. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina, Florida, west to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region, Central Pine belt. Baldwin County, drifting eands. 

 Eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Autauga County, Pratt ville, gravelly banks of streams. 

 April to June; not rare. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in sabulosis aridis Cnrolinae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



POLYCARFON L. Syst. ed. 10, 881. 1759. 



Six species, warmer and temperate regions of both hemispht 

 Polycarpon tetraphyllum L. f. Suppl. 116. 1781. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 182. Chap. Fl. 48. 



SOUTHERN EUROPE. 



Louisianian area. Cosmopolitan in warmer regions. Introduced into South Caro- 

 lina and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Sandy exposed soil. Mobile County, on ballast ground, 

 and in waste places along the river front. Annual. 



Type locality (Willd. Sp. PI.) : "Hab. in Italiae, Istriae, G. Narbonensis vineis. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PARONYCHIA Adans. Fam. PI. 2 : 272. 1763. WHITLOW-WORT. 



About 40 species, in warmer regions of the Northern Hemisphere. North America, 

 9 or 10. Southern States, 5. 



