580 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Type locality (Jacq. llort. Vind.): "Semiua hujus plantae niecuni ex Americes 

 zona torrida attuli. 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vigna catjang (L.) Walp. Linnaea, 13 : 533. 1839. Cow PEA. 



Dolichos catjang L. Mant. 2 : 269. 1771. 



Introduced from eastern Asia and extensively cultivated. In many varieties per- 

 haps hybridized with Dolichos siuensis L. (Cent. PI. 2 : 28). 



Sparsely escaped from cultivation. 



Type locality : " Hab. in India oriental!." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



DIOCLE A H. B. K. Nov. Gen. &. Sp. 6 : 437. 1823. 



About 16 species, of warmer America. 

 Dioclea multiflora (/i'orr. & Gray). BOYKIN'S DIOCLEA. 



Dolichus multiflorus Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1:281. 1838. 

 ^Dioclea loijkinii Gray; Wats. Bibl, lud. 2i9. 1878. 



Chap. Fl. 110. 



Louisianiaii area. Southern Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Rich bottoms. Hale County, Galliou, Prairie 

 Creek. Flowers purple. June. So far only locally observed. 'Perennial from a 

 slender running rootstock several fe.-t in length, climbing over bushes. It has been 

 observed in abundance throughout the Mississippi bottom and along the Lochapa- 

 hila in Mississippi, and there can be no doubt that the plant is also frequent in the 

 river bottoms in the western parts of the State, which so far have been but slightly 

 explored. 



Type locality: "Alluvial banks of the Oconee River, Georgia, Dr. Hoi/kin ! 

 Arkansas, Dr. Leavenworth ! " 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



GALACTIA P. Browne, Hist. Jam. 298. 1756.' 



About 50 species, perennials, of warmer America, West Indies, Mexico. Eastern 

 North America, 14. 



Galactia regularis (L.) B. S. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 14. 1888. MILK PEA. 



Dolichos regularis L. Sp. PI. 2:726. 1753. 



Galactia glabella Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 62. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 239. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 146. Chap. Fl. 109. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New York and New Jersey, south to 

 Florida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Lower Pine region. Dry sandy woods. Autauga 

 County, Prattville. Clarke County. Monroe County, Claiborne. Mobile and Bald- 

 win counties. Flowers purplish. June, July. Frequent in the rolling pine bar- 

 rens. The form with oblong-ovate, acute leaves, var. ft Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 

 1:287, from Prattville. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Galactia volubilis (L.) Britton, Mem. Ton-. Club, 5 : 208. 1894. 



TWINING MILK PEA. 



Hedysarum volubile L. Sp. PI. 2 : 750. 1753. 



Galactia mollis Nutt. Gen. 2 : 117. 1818. Not Michx. 1803. 



G.pilosa Ell. Sk. 2 :238. 1824. Not Nutt. 



G. macrei M. A. Curtis, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1 : 120. 1837. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 238. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 146. Chap. Fl. 108. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 

 Tennessee; North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the coast. The type chiefly in upper districts to 

 Central Pine belt. Flowers purple. July to September; frequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in America septentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Galactia volubilis mississippiensis Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 22 : 508. 18!!.",. 

 Louisianian area. North Carolina. 



'Anna M. Vail, A study of the genus Galactia in North America, Bull. Torr. Club, 

 vol. 22, pp. 500 to 511. 1895. 



