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MEXICO, BRAZIL, PERU. 



Alleghenian to Louisiauian area. Massachusetts and New York west to Iowa and 

 Nebraska, south to Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Upper division of Coast Pino belt. Dry sandy 

 banks. Culluian, Choctaw, Lee, and Tuscaloosa counties. Flowers yellow ; July, 

 August. Nowhere common. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Brasilia, Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Crotalaria purshii DC. Prodr. 2 : 124. 1825. PURSH'S RATTLE Box. 



Crotalaria laevigata Pursh, Fl. Ain. Sept 2 : 469. 1814. Not Lam. 



C. parvi flora Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 469. 1814. Not Roth. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 193. Chap. Fl. 89. 



Louisianiau area. Florida to South Carolina, west to eastern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Damp pine barrens on sandy loam. 

 Baldwin and Mobile counties. Flowers April, May. Not rare. Perennial. 



Typo locality: "In Virginia et Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Crotalaria browiiei Bertero, DC. Prodr. 2 : 130. 1825. BROWN'S CROTALARIA. 



Crotalaria striata DC. Prodr. 2 : 131. 1825. 

 Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 180. 

 Tropical countries of the New and Old World. 

 Louisianian area. 



ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Observed 1890 to 1895. Annual. 

 Type locality : " In Jamaica ad rivulos frequens/' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LUPINUS Sp. PI. 2: 721. 1753. LUPINE. 



About 100 species, warmer temperate regions Mediterranean Europe, Mexico, South 

 America. Northwestern America, 60. Eastern United States, 4 or 5. 



Liipinus gracilis Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 115. 1834. Not Agardh. 1835. 



NUTTALL'S LUPINE. 



Lupinus nuttallii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 8 : 526. 1873. 



L. perennis var. f/racilis Chap. Fl. 89. 1860. 



Chap. Fl. 89. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina and Florida. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry sandy pine barrens. Mobile County, Spring- 

 hill. Flowers pale blue; April. Frequent in dry sandy pine barrens near the 

 coast. Easily distinguished from Ltipiniis perennis by the slender decumbent stem 

 with stiff spreading hairs, bearing scarcely more than one slender drooping raceme 



Type locality : " Georgia, Florida, and westward to Mississippi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lupinus diffusus Nutt. Gen. 2 : 93. 1818. SPREADING LUPINE. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 192. Chap. Fl. 90. 



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



ALABAMA : Lower Pine region. Arid sandy pine ridges. Mobile and Baldwin 

 counties. Flowers pale blue, March, April; fruit ripe May, June. Frequent. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality : "Around Wilmington, and in many other parts of North and South 

 Carolina, in the barren forests of the Quercus catesbaei and Q. niyra." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lupinus villosus Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 1029. 1805. HAIRY LUPINE. 



Lupinus pilosus Walt. Fl. Car. 180. 1788. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 191. Chap. Fl. 89. 



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



ALABAMA : Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Grassy damp pine barrens. Flowers 

 "reddish purple Avith a dark spot in the center of the vexilluiu." Flowers a couple 

 of weeks later than the last, and affects situations of a heavier soil, retentive of 

 moisture. Not infrequent. Biennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Carolina et in iusula Trinitatis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



