FLAX FAMILY. 585 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Lower Pine belt. Dry open copses. Cullman 

 County, 800 feet. Lee County, Auburn (Baker <jr Earle, 97). Tuscaloosa County, 

 300 feet. Mobile County, Citronelle, 200 feet. Flowers yellow; March, April; fre- 

 quent in the rolling pine barrens of the Lower Pine belt. 



Type locality: " Grows in cultivated land. Very common near Charleston, inter- 

 mingled with Oxalis stricta, with which it has been confounded." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Oxalis cymosa Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 267. 1896. YELLOW PRAIRIE SORREL. 



Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 2 : 347. 



Typically erect, slender, 10 to 15 inches high, stem wiry, somewhat woody at the 

 base, branched above, snioothish, the luxuriant foliage of a bright green. Leaves 

 from to 1 inches in diameter on slender wiry petioles, 1 jio 3 inches long; 

 leaflets broader than long, acutely notched at the 'apex; peduncles wiry, slender, 

 3 to 4 inches long; pedicels ^ to -^g- inch long, erect, subtended by small 

 linear-lanceolate bractlets, and like the pedicels villous-pubescent; flowers pale 

 yellow, small, sepals lanceolate, rather obtuse; petals double the length of the 

 sepals, many-nerved, capsule columnar, ^ to fa inch long, the seeds marked with 

 continuous ridges. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario to Lake Superior and Nebraska, south 

 to the Gulf of Mexico. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Central prairies. Borders of fields and woods. 

 Lee County, Auburn (Earle j- Underwood). Tuscaloosa County. Dallas County, 

 Uniontown. Flowers lemon-yellow ; end of April to June. Frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: Ontario to the Lake Superior region and Nebraska, south to the 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Oxalis grandis Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 475. 1894. 



GREAT YELLOW WOOD SORREL. 



Oxalis recun-a Trelease, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 4 : 89. 1888. Not Ell. 



Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 65. Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 2 : 347. 



Annual or biennial by a slender rootstock. Stem, rather stout, erect, simple or 

 sparingly branched, grooved, sparsely villous by scattered hairs, leafy above; leaves 

 large 1 to If inches wide; leaflets unequal, broader than long, with a shallow but 

 acute sinus, acute at the base, slightly ciliate, hairy on the veins, the revolute mar- 

 gin purplish brown; inflorescence subcymose orcymose; peduncles 3 to 4^ inches 

 long, as long as or longer than the leaves; pedicels inch long, erect, not reflexed in 

 fruit ; flowers large, petals inch long, three times longer than the linear-oblong seg- 

 ments of the calyx, pod narrowly oblong, acute, seeds oblong, acute with interrupted 

 transverse ridges and 2 longitudinal crests on the back. 



Carolinian area. Pennsylvania to Ohio and Illinois; south to Virginia and North 

 Carolina, altitude 2,500 feet; through the Cumberland mountains of Kentucky and 

 Tennessee. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rich woods. Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 

 near Meutone, 1,600 feet, May 31. Talladega County, Kenfroe, 1 ,000 feet. Lee County, 

 Auburn (Earle fy Under icood). 



Type locality : Many stations are cited within the above range. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Oxalis violacea L. Sp. PL 1 : 434. 1753. PURPLE WOOD SORREL. 



Ell. Sk. 1:525. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 105. Chap. Fl. 63. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:52. 



CUBA. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern New England to Colorado, south to 

 Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Lauderdale and Montgomery coun- 

 ties. Mobile. Flowers rose-purple; April. Not infrequent. Perennial. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LINACEAE. Flax Family. 

 LINUM L. Sp. PL 1 : 277. 1753. 



Ninety species, temperate and warmer regions, cosmopolitan. 



Linum virginiaiium L. Sp. PI. 1 : 279. 1753. WILD YELLOW FLAX. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 375. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 102. Chap. Fl. 62. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:46. 



