502 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Paronychia baldwinii (Torr. & Gray) Chap. Fl. 46. 1860. 



BALDWIN'S WHITLOW-WORT. 



Anychia baldwinii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1 : 172. 1838. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. ; ed. 3, 397. 



Louisianian area. Western Florida. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Sandy soil. Baldwin County, Fish River Bay. 

 Flowers in September and October; rare. Annual to biennial/ 



Type locality: "Florida, Baldwin! West Florida. Mr. Ware! Middle Florida, Dr. 

 Chapman!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SIPHONYCHIA Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1 : 172. 1838. 



Four species, seacoast of southern Atlantic America. 

 Siphonychia erecta Chap. Fl. 47. 1860. LARGER WHITLOW-WORT. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. ; ed. 3, 397. 



Louisianian area. Coast of western Florida to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands of the seashore. Baldwin County. 

 Mobile County, Dauphin Island. Flowers white. July, August ; not rare. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Sands along the west coast of Florida.''* 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Siphonychia diffusa Chap. Fl. 47. 1860. Low WHITLOW^WORT. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. ; ed. 3, 398. 



Louisianian area. Florida. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Dry sandy shores. Baldwin County, Bayou La Launch. 

 Flowers white. Kare. Annual. 



Type locality: "Dry sandy pine barrens, Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ANYCHIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 112. 1803. FORKED CHICK-VEED. 



Two species, Atlantic America. 

 Anychia dichotoma Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 112. 1803. 



Anychia canadensis Ell. Sk. 1 : 307. 1817. Not Queria canadensis L. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 426. Chap. Fl. 46. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England west to Missouri, south to 

 Tennessee and tipper districts of North Carolina, thence to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region and Lower hills. Exposed sandy or gravelly hill- 

 sides. Clay County, shaded shelves of rocks; abundant. Chehawhaw Mountain, 

 2,400 feet. Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 2,000 feet. Calhoun County, near 

 Anniston, 700 feet. September; not infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in collibus calcariis Pensylvaniae superioris et Kentucky." 



Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HERNIARIA L. 



About 15 species, perennials, of the Mediterranean region. 

 Herniaria incana Lam. Encycl. 3 : 124. 1789. 

 SOUTHERN EUROPE. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile County. June; rarely observed. Per- 

 ennial, 

 'ype 

 [erb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Type locality : "Dauphin^ * * * proche le Bourg-d'Oisans." 

 He:" 



POLYCARPAEA Lam. Journ. Hist. Nat. Par. 2 : 8, t. 25. 1792. 



(MOLLIA Willd. Hort. Berol. 11, 1. 11. 1806.) 

 About 30 species; shrubby; warmer regions of the Old World. 

 Polycarpaea alsinefolia (Spreng.). 

 Mollia alsinefolia Spreng. Syst. 1 : 795. 1825. 

 SOUTHERN EUROPE. 



ALABAMA : Fugitive on ballast. Mobile County. June. Perennial. 

 Type locality : "Sicilia." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



