SPURGE FAMILY. 595 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Shady banks of streams. Mont- 

 gomery County, Pintlala. Choctaw County. Clarke County (Dr. Denny"). Mobile 

 County. Four to 8 feet high. Frequent, particularly in the upper division of the 

 Coast Pine belt. 



Type locality: "Hab. in sylvaruin umbrosis, ad ripas ainnimu Carolinae et 

 Georgiae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SAPIUM P. Br. Hist. Jam. 338. 1756. 

 About 25 species, tropics of both hemispheres. 



Sapium sebiferum Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 : 693. 1824. TALLOW TREE. 



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

 Stillingia sebifera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 213. 1803. 

 Ell. Sk. 2 : 651. Chap. Fl. 405. 

 CHINA, JAPAN. 



Louisianian area. Georgia, Louisiana. Introduced and cultivated for a shade tree. 

 ALABAMA: Coast plain. Mobile. Rarely escaped to waste grounds. 

 Type locality : " Hab. in Chinae humidis. Osbeck." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



EUPHORBIA L. Sp. PL 1 : 450. 1753. 1 SPURGE. 



About 700 species, temperate and tropical regions. Europe, Asia, America. North 

 America, 55 to 60. Largely Southern. South Atlantic States, 35. 



Euphorbia polygonifolia L. Sp. PL 1 : 455. 1753. SEASIDE SPURGE. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 656. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 452. Chap. Fl. 404. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 387. 



Alleghenian to Louisianiau area. Nova Scotia, Ontario, Illinois (shores of the 

 Great Lakes) ; New York south to Florida, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA : Littoral region. Drifting sands of the seashore. Baldwin and Mobile 

 counties and adjacent islands. Flowers July to October; frequent. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Canada, Virginia. 77 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euphorbia cordifolia Ell. Sk. 2 : 656. 1821-24. HEARTLEAF SEASIDE SPURGE. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 404. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 388. 



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



ALABAMA : Littoral region. Drifting sand. Eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Bald- 

 win County. Mobile County, Dauphin Island. June to August ; rare. Annual. 



Type locality: "In cultivated land, common around Beaufort," S. C. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euphorbia serpens H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2 : 52. 1817. CREEPING SPURGE. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 453. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 646 : ed. 3, 425. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:388. 



MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA. 



Carolinian to Louisianian area. Tennessee, Illinois, southern Kansas, and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Waste places, roadsides. Mobile County. Most probably 

 adventive from the Southwest. August, September. Annual. 



Type locality: "Crescit in umbrosis Cumanae prope Bordones et Punta Araya." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euphorbia humistrata Engelm. in Gray, Man. ed. 2, 386. 1856. 



Low SPREADING SPURGE. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 453. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 646 ; ed. 3. 426. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 389. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Shaded sandy ground, grassy banks. New 

 Jersey, Ohio, southern Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Baldwin County. Eastern shore 

 Mobile Bay. Mobile County, Springhill. Flowers August to October. Not infre- 

 quent with the following, and of the same habit of growth. Annual. 



Type locality: "Banks of the Mississippi and lower Ohio, in rich alluvial soil, 

 and south west ward." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



1 J. B. S. Norton, North American species of Euphorbia section Tithymalus, Elev- 

 enth Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pp. 85 to 144. 1899. 



