616 PLANT LIFE *OF ALABAMA. 



Sida acuta carpinifolia Schumann, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 12, pt. 3 : 326. 1891. 



Sida carpinifolia L. f. Suppl. 307. 1781. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1: 324. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 73. 



TROPICAL REGIONS, AMERICA, AFRICA, EAST INDIES. 



Louisianiau area. Florida. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Sparingly naturalized; more fre- 

 quently adventive on ballast heaps. Mobile County, Springhill, waste places near 

 the hotel (F. W. Bush). Flowers August. 



Type locality : Many provinces of Brazil are cited with Paraguay and English and 

 French Guiana, "preterea inter tropicos utriusque orbis Lerba ruderalis vulgaris." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sida rhombifolia L. Sp. PL 2 : 684. 1753. RHOMBLEAF SIDA. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 160. Chap. Fl. 55. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 74. 



COSMOPOLITAN IN WARMER REGIONS. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Dry pastures, waste and cultivated 

 places. Mobile County, a common roadside weed, most probably naturalized from 

 the adjacent tropics; never met with distant from dwellings. Flowers yellow, May 

 to October. 



Type locality: "Hab. in India utraque. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sida elliottii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 231. 1838. ELLIOTT'S SIDA. 



Sida gracilis Ell. Sk. 2 : 159. 1824. Not Richard. 



SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO. 



Carolinian and Lonisianian areas. South Carolina to Florida, west to Tennessee 

 and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Central Pine belt to Lower Pine region. In light dry soil, open copses. 

 Montgomery, Autauga, and Washington counties. Flowers pale yellow; June, 

 August. Not infrequent. 



Type locality : "Sandy soil; South Carolina, Elliott; Georgia, Dr. Boykin! Florida, 

 Croom! Dr. Chapman!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sida linifolia Cav. Diss. 1 : 14, t. 2J. 1. 1790. 



Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 76. 



TROPICAL AMERICA AND AFRICA. 



ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile. September. Ripened seeds perfectly in 

 1892 and 1893. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Insula Caienae et in Peru, ubi earn observavit D. Jos. de 

 Jussieu." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



MALVASTRUM Gray, PI. Fendl. 21. 1849. 



Malvastrum aiigustum Gray, PI. Fendl. 22. 1849. FALSE MALLOW. 



Sida Uspida Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 452. 1814. (?) 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 159. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 99. Chap. Fl. 54. 



Carolinian and Louisiaiiian areas. Western Tennessee, southern Missouri, and 

 Kansas. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt. Tallapoosa County (E. A. Smith). August, 1873. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : "This is probably Pursh's plant ; but I have not seen it from Geor- 



fla. Drnmmond gathered it at St. Louis, whence I have also received it from Dr. 

 ngelmann; and Nuttall found depauperate specimens on the plains of Red River." 

 Herb. Mohr. 



Malvastrum spicatum (L.) Gray, PI. Fendl. 22. 1849. 



Malta spicata L. Syst. ed. 10, 2 : 1146. 1759. 



Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 72. 



ALABAMA : Fugitive from the tropics on ballast. Mobile, August, 1892. Not met 

 with since. 



Type locality uot originally given. In L. Sp. PI. ed. 2: "Hab. in Jamaica." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



