530 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



RESEDACEAE. Mignonette Family. 

 RESEDA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 449. 1753. MIGNONKTTK. 

 Sixty species, Mediterranean Europe, Africa. 



Reseda lutea L. Sp. PI. 1 : 448. 1753. YELLOW CUT-LEAVED MIGNONETTE. 



EUROPE. 



Carolinian area. Adventive ou ballast on the coast of southern New England and 

 southward. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile, July, 1885. Annual. 



Type locality: %< Hab. in Europae australioris montibus cretaceis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SAERACENIACEAE. Pitcher Plant Family. 



SARRACENIA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 510. 1753. 

 Six species, perennials, chiefly south Atlantic North America. 



Sarracenia purpurea L. Sp. PI. 1:510. 1753. SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 9. Gray, Man . ed. 6, 57. Chap. Fl. 20. 



Boreal zone to Louisianian area. From Labrador, Newfoundland, and Nova 

 Scotia through Canada to the Rocky Mountains; New England to Florida and 

 Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Throughout the Coast Pine belt. Coast plain. Sphagnous bogs. Clarke, 

 Geneva, Escambia, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers pale purple; March. 

 April. Not infrequent. 



Type locality : '' Hab. in Americae septentrionalis udis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sarracenia psittacina Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 311. 1803. 



PARROT BKAK. PITCHER PLANT. 



Chap. Fl. 20. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 80, 



Louisianian area. Coast of Georgia and Florida to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Damp and boggy pine barrens. 

 Mobile, Baldwin, and Washington counties. Flowers pomegranate-purple; April. 

 Not rare. 



Type locality: "Hab. ab urbe Augusta Georgiae ad Floridaui." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sarracenia rubra Walt. Fl. Car. 152. 1788. 



RED-FLOWERED TRUMPET-LEAF OH PITCHER PLANT. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 10. Chap. Fl. 21. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1:80. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina and Florida to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Damp sandy pine barrens, piue- 

 iiieadows. Mobile County, Bayou LaBatre. Washington County, Vinegar Bend. 

 Flowers reddish purple (wine- purple) ; April. Not rare. 



Economic uses: The rootstocks of S. rubra, S. driimmondii, and S. purpurea are 

 reputed to possess therapeutical properties. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sarracenia drummondii Croom, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4 : 100, t. 6. 1848. 



DRUMMOND TRUMPET-LEAF. 



Chap. Fl. 21. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 80. 



Louisianian area. Southwestern Georgia and western Florida, west to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Boggy pine barrens from Geneva, to 

 Washington County. Baldwin and Mobile counties. Flowers maroon purple. 

 April; frequent. 



Type locality : " Near the town of Appalachicola in Florida. Abundant on the 

 western borders of the Appalachicola River below Ocheesee. Dr. A. W. Chapman, 

 in Jit," 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sarracenia flava L. Sp. PI. 1 : 510. 1753. YELLOW THUM PKT-LEAF. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 10. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 57. Chap. Fl. 21. Gray, Syn. VI. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 81. 

 Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



