CAPER FAMILY. 529 



ALABAMA: Lower bills. Coast plain. Waste places. Shelby County, Cahaba 

 (E. A. Smith). Mobile, a frequent ballast weed. Flowers pale purple; June, July. 

 Annual. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cleome aculeata L. Syst. ed. 12, 3 : 232. 1767. PRICKLY CLEOME. 



Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 16. 



WEST INDIES, GUIANA. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive with ballast. Mobile. Collected once only, at Hunter's Wharf, 

 June 4, 1893, with seeds perfectly mature. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America. D. Zaega." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cleome peiitaphylla L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 2 : 938. 1762. FIVE-LEAVED GYNANDROPSIS. 



Gynandropsis pentaphylla DC. Prodr. 1 : 238. 1821. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 150. Chap. Fl. 32. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 183. 



ASIA, EGYPT. 



Warmer parts of America. Most probably introduced from the Old World. 



Escaped from cultivation, Georgia to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. An escape from gardens, and intro- 

 duced with ballast; fairly naturalized. Tuscaloosa County. Autauga County, 

 Prattville. Mobile County. Flowers rose-color; June, July. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Indiis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cleome viscosa L. Sp. PI. 2 : 672. 1753. CLAMMY CLEOME. 



CEYLON, MALABAR, WEST AFRICA, introduced in warmer America. 



Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 183. 



ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile. Observed from 1878 to 1895. Flowers 

 yellow; August, September. Annual. Also reported on ballast from Philadelphia. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Zeylona, Malabaria." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



POL ANISIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 : 98. 1819. 



Thirty species, warmer regions of the Old and New World, Northern Hemisphere. 

 Annuals. 



Polanisia trachysperma Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 669. 1840. 



ROUGH-SEEDED POLANISIA. 



Polanisia nniglandulosa Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4 : 67. 1857. Not DC. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 75. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 606; ed. 3, 32. Coulter. Contr. Nat. Herb 

 2 : 23/ Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 182. 



MEXICO. 



Sporadically diffused over the western part of the continent. Manitoba to Colo 

 rado, Oregon, Arizona, and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Waste places. Tallapoosa County, Dadeville, 550 

 feet; only station. Most probably ad ventive from the southwest. Flowers pink; 

 July. Rare and local. Annual. 



Type locality : "Texas, Dnimmond!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Polanisia tenuifolia Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 123. 1838. NARROW-LEAF POLANISIA . 

 Chap. Fl. 31. Gray, Syn. Fl. N.A.I, pt. 1:182. 1895. 

 Louisianian area. Coast of Georgia and Florida. 

 ALABAMA: Sandy hills. Dale County (E. A. Smith). Annual. 

 Type locality: "Georgia, LeConte!" 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



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