596 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Euphorbia garberi Engehu. ; Chap. Fl. Suppl. b'46. 1860. (IARHKR'S SI-URGE. 



Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 425. 



Louisianian area. Southern Florida. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. Waste places, dry sandy or gravelly soil. Mobile County, 

 on the banks of the Mobile River near Oiie-inile Creek. Flowers July to September. 

 Annual. 



Perhaps adventive with ballast. Abundant in this locality. 



Type locality: "Sandy coast, South Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euphorbia maculata L. Sp. PL 1 : 455. 1753. SPOTTED SPURGE. 



Euphorbia thymifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 606. 1X14. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 654. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 453. Chap. Fl. 403. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:389. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New England west to the Dakotas, Nebraska, 

 Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas, and southward to the Gulf from Florida to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Roadsides, waste places, fields. July to November; 

 common everywhere. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in America septentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euphorbia nutans Lag. Gen. & Sp. 17. 1816. FIELD SPURGE. 



Euphorbia preslii Guss. Fl. Sice. Prodr. 539. 1827. 



E. hypcricifolia many American authors. Not L. 



E. hypericifolia var. communis Engelm. Bot. Alex. Bound. 188. 1853. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 654. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 453. Chap. Fl. 403 ; ed. 3, 425. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 387. 



CENTRAL AMERICA, ECUADOR. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario; New England west to Dakotas, 

 Nebraska, Arkansas, and Texas, and throughout the States east of the Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. Fields, cultivated ground. Common. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in N. H." (i. e. Nova Hispania). 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 

 Euphorbia pilulifera discolor Engelm. in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 188. 1859. 



VARIEGATED SPURGE. 



Diffuse, leaves very oblique at the base, subrhomboidal, sharply serrate, purplish- 

 spotted; stipules subulate; capsule small, pilose; seeds minute, ovate, acute, un- 

 dulate-tuberculate. Stems i to 1 foot long, leaves from 1 to 1 inches long. Differs 

 in shape and color of leaves from the usual forms of Euphorbia piluUJ 'era; involucre 

 only i line long, heads 3 to 4 lines in diameter ; seeds scarcely more than line 

 long. 



Our plant differs slightly in its assurgent to erect stem, and its seeds with a few 

 faint rugae and faintly punctate. The densely flowered cymules are on peduncles 2 

 to 3 lines long; the appendages of the pilose involucre are small, red. 



SONORA (Tkurber). 



Louisianian area. Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. In cultivated and waste grounds. Flowers throughout 

 the summer and fall. Annual. 



During the past ten years extensively spreading and becoming a troublesome gar- 

 den weed. 



Type locality: "Souora; Thurber, Wright, No. 1842, in part. Mr. Itlotlgett found it 

 in Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euphorbia marginata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 607. 1814. 



LARGK FLOWERING SPURGE. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 454. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ohio to Minnesota and Colorado. 



ALABAMA: Escaped from cultivation. Autauga County, Prattville (E. A. Smith). 

 Annual. 



Type locality : " On the Yellowstone River. M. Lewis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Euphorbia coroUata L. Sp. PI. 1:459. 1753. FLOWERING SPURGE. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 659. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 454. Chap. Fl. 400. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 391. 



Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisiaiiian ureas. New York west to Nebraska, 

 south to Texas and Florida, 



