578 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



CICER L. Sp. PL 2 : 738. 1753. 



Cicer arietiuum L.Sp. PI. 2 : 738. 1753. COMMON CHICK PEA. 



SOUTH EUROPK. 



Adventive on ballast. Mobile, June, 1888. Animal. 

 Economic uses: The seeds are used for food. 

 Type locality: "Hab. inter Hispauiae, Italiae segetes." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



LATHYRUS L. Sp. PI. 2 : 729. 1753. EVERLASTING PEA. 



About 100 species, chiefly perennials, Northern Hemisphere. Europe, northern Asia. 

 North America, 15. 

 Lathyrus venosus Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 1092. 1803. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 143. Chap. Fl. 99. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area. British North America, Lake Superior region 

 to latitude 50, ami across the continent to Washington ; New York, west to Minne- 

 sota, Kansas, and Colorado ; New Jersey to the Ohio Valley, and along the mountains 

 to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain regiou. Dry woods. Cullman County. Flowers purple; 

 June. Not frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Pensylvania." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BRADBURYA Raf. Fl. Lud. 104. 1817. 

 (CENTROSEMA Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2 : 117. 1838. ) 

 Thirty species, tropical America. Southeastern North America, 1. 



Bradburya virginiana (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1 : 164. 1891. 



VIRGINIAN BUTTERFLY PEA. 



Clitoria rirginiana L. Sp. PL 2 : 753. 1753. 



Centrosema virginiana Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. 2: 120. 1838. 



Ell. Sk.2:240.' Gray, Man. ed. 6, 145. Chap. Fl. 107. Coulter, Contr. Nat, Herb. 

 2:87. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. Maryland, through the low country to Florida, 

 west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Dry copses, borders of woods and 

 fields. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith), Autauga County. Washington Comity, 

 Yellowpine. Mobile County. Flowers purplish; June, August. Not infrequent, 

 particularly in the pine barrens. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CLITORIA L. Sp. PL 2 : 753. 1753. BUTTERFLY PEA. 



About thirty species, warmer regions of both hemispheres exclusive of En rope. 

 North America, 1. 



Clitoria mariaiia L. Sp. PI. 2 : 753. 1753. MARYLAND BUTTERFLY PEA. 



Ell. Sk. 2 :241. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 146. Chap. Fl. 107. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 88. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York and Xew Jersey to Florida, west to 

 Texas, Arkansas, and southern Missouri. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Open woods, dry copses. Lander- 

 dale County. Clay County, Shinboue Valley, 1,000 feet. Cullman County. Shelby 

 County. Clarke and Mobile counties. Flowers azure; May to July. Frequent, 

 most HO in central and lower districts. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Hab. in America septentriouali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PALCATA Gmel.Syst.2:1131. 1796. 

 AMPHICARPA Ell. Jonrn. Acad. Phila. 1 : 372. 1817. 



Fifteen species, Japan, Himalayan India, North and South America. 

 Falcata comosa (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 1:182. 1891. Hoc; PKANUT. 



G lycine comosa L. Sp. PI. 2 : 754. 1753. 

 Gl'ycine monoica L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 2 : 1023. 1763. 



