592 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Exposed calcareous bills. August to October; 

 frequent. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hal>. in Tennassoe. iuxta Nashville. 1 ' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Croton capitatus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 214. 1803. WOOLLY CROTON. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 458. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 648 : ed. 3, 430. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb 

 2:399. 



NORTHERN MEXICO. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Illinois, Missouri, and eastern Kansas .south to 

 Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, and western Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Widely scattered, chieily a wayside 

 plant. Morgan County, cedar plain, bordrr fields and roads. Shelby County. Calera, 

 about the railroad station. Talladega County, Syllacauga (E. A. Smith). Mobile, 

 borders Birmingham and Mobile Railroad track. August to October. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in regione Illinoensi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Croton texensis (Klotzsch) Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15, pt. 2 : 692. 1862. 



TEXAS CROTON. 



Hendecandra texensis Klotzsch in Wiegiu. Archiv. 7:252. 1841. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 458. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 648 ; ed. 3, 430. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:400. 



Carolinian area. Western Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Waste places. Roadsides. Talla'poosa County, Dadeville. 

 Jefferson County, Birmingham, copiously about railroad yards. Adventive from the 

 Southwest. Flowers July, August. Annual. 



Type locality: "In Arkansas , in Texas * , et magis septen- 



trionem versus sub latitud. 41 * * , in Mexico oriental!/' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Croton glandulosus L. Amoen. Acad. 5 : 409. 1760. GLANDULAR CROTON. 



Ell. Sk. 2:647. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 458. Chap. Fl. 408. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:399. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA TO BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. Southern Illinois, Missouri, southern Kansas, 

 Arkansas; from eastern Virginia south to the Gulf, and from Florida to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to the Coast plain. Dry sandy fields, waste places. 

 Autauga County. Clay County, Elders, 1 ,000 feet. Montgomery, Clarke, and Mobile 

 counties. August to October. A common weed. Annual. 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CROTONOPSIS Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 185, t. 46. 1803. 



Single species, Atlantic North America. 

 Crotonopsis linearis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 186. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 583. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 459. Chap. Fl. 408. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New England west to Kansas, south to Florida 

 and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Central Pine belt, dry places. Etowah County, 

 Black Creek Falls. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). August; not frequent. 

 Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in maritimis Carolinae, juxta Long-bay, et in regione 

 Illinoensi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CROZOPHORA Neck.Elem. 2:337. 1:90. LITMUS HERB. 



Crozophora tinctoria Juss. Tent. Euphor. 28, t. 7. 1824. 



Croton tinctorius L . Sp. PI. 2 : 1004. 1753. 



SPAIN, NORTH AFRICA. 



ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast, Mobile. September, 1891. Not observed 

 lately. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. Monspelii." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



