614 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Corchorus aestuans L. Syst. ed. 10, 2 : 1079. 1759. 

 Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I. 97. 

 WEST INDIES, SOUTH AMERICA. 



ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile, September, 1894. Annual. 

 Type locality not originally given. In L. Sp. PI. ed. 2 : "Hab. in America calidiore." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



MALVACEAE. Mallow Family. 

 ABUTILON Gaertn. Fruct. 2 : 251, t. 135. 1791. 



Seventy species, warmer regions of both hemispheres. 

 Abutilou abutilon (L.) Rushy, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 222. 1893-94. VELVET LKAF. 



Sida abutilon L. Sp. PL 2 : 685. 1753. 



Abutilon ancennae Gaertn. Fruct. 2 : 251, t. 1S5. 1791. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 162. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 99. Chap. Fl. 55. 



INDIA, widely spread in the warmer countries. 



Carolinian and Louisianiaii areas. Naturalized throughout the Atlantic States. 



ALABAMA: All over the State in cultivated grounds and on roadsides. Flowers 

 yellow, June to September; not common. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Indiis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



MODIOLA Moench, Meth. 619. 1794. 



About half a dozen species, warmer regions South America to Brazil. North 

 America, 1. 



Modiola caroliniana (L.) Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 1: 466. 1831. CAROLINA MALLOW. 



Malva caroliniana L. Sp. PI. 2 : 688. 1753. 



Modiola multifida Moench, Meth. 619. 1794. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 163. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 100. Chap. Fl. 56. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.lnd. 72. 



WEST INDIES, SOUTHERN MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA, JUAN FERNANDEZ. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia and North Carolina to Flor- 

 ida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Light sandy soil, roadsides, waste 

 places. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Mobile County. Flowers scarlet, May 

 to July. A common weed. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



MALVA L.Sp.PL2:6X7. 1753. 



Thirty species, temperate regions, Europe. 

 Malva rotundifolia L. Sp. PL 2 : 688. 1753. COMMON MALLOW. 



Adventive from Europe, naturalized in the Eastern United States. 



ALABAMA: Over the State, near dwellings. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers 

 in June, July. Not frequent. Annual. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Europae ruderatis, viis, plateis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Malva brasiliensis Desr. in Lam. Encycl. 3 : 744. 1789. BRAZILIAN MALLOW. 



Fugitive on ballast from the tropics. Mobile, first collected June, 1893. 



Type locality: "Au Bresil, ou elle fnt trouv^e, par Commerson, :\ 1'lleanx Chats, 

 dans la rade de Rio-Janeiro." 



CALLIRRHOE Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 2 : 181. 1821. 



Seven species. Perennial herbs, North American. 



Callirrhoe papaver (Cav.) Gray, PL Fendl. 17. 1849. POPPYLIKE MALLOW. 



Malva papaver Cav. Diss. 2 : 64, /. 15, f, 3. 1790. 

 M. nuttalloides Croom, Am. Journ. Sci. 26 : 313, 328. 1834. 

 Chap. Fl. 53. 

 Louisianiaii area. Georgia and Florida, west to Louisiana and Arkansas. 



