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MELASTOMACEAE. Melastoma Family. 

 RHEXIA L. Sp. PL 1 : 346. 1753. 



Nine species, perennial. Atlantic North America, chiefly Southern. 

 Rhexia mariaiia L. Sp. PL 1 : 346. 1753. MARYLAND MEADOW BEAUTY. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 437. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 183. Chap. Fl. 132. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. New Jersey to West Virginia, Kentucky, Ten- 

 nessee, and Florida, west to Louisiana. Rare in the Ohio Valley, Missouri, and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower hills to the Coast plain. Damp borders of 

 woods. Lee County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle, 166). Cullman, Autauga, Montgomery, 

 and Mobile counties. Flowers pink; June, August. Common. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Marilandia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Rhexia lanceolata Walt. FL Car. 129. 1788. LANCE-LEAF MEADOW BEAUTY. 



Rhexia mariana exalbida Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 221. 1803. 



Rhexia anc/ustifolia Nutt. Gen. 1 : 244. 1818. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 438. Chap. Fl. 132, in part. 



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



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Damp thickets. Mobile County. 

 Flowers white ; August. Frequent. Branched at the base, from a ligneous spread- 

 ing root. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Rhexia floridana Nash, Bull. Torr. Club 22 : 150. 1895. FLORIDA MEADOW BEAUTY. 



Dark green, branched from the woody base ; leaves sessile, linear, smooth on both 

 sides, 1-nerved ; calyx nearly smooth with a few bristly hairs, calyx lobes broad at 

 the base, petals witii a short mucro, seeds flat, spiral with serrulate edges. 



Louisianian area. Florida to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Low borders of woods. Mobile 

 County, Springhill. Flowers purple; July. Not frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Wet clay soil on east bank of canal leading from Hick's Prairie, 

 near Eustis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Rhexia virginica L. Sp. PI. 1 : 346. 1753. VIRGINIA MEADOW BEAUTY. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 439. Gray, Man. ed, 183. Chap. Fl. 132. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Ontario, southeastern New England, 

 and New York west to Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas, south along the low 

 country to Florida, west to Louisiana and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. Damp shady banks, borders of rivulets. Lee County, 

 Auburn (Earle <$ Underwood). Cullman County, 800 feet. Autauga, Mobile, and 

 Baldwin counties. Flowers pale purple; July. Frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Rhexia stricta Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 258. 1816. SWAMP MEADOW BEAUTY. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 439. Chap. Fl. 132. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. Boggy margins 

 of pine-barren swamps. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Wet borders of pine-barren ponds. Mobile County. 

 Flowers crimson; July. Not infrequent. Perennial. Two to 2 feet high, conspic- 

 uous by the rich clusters of gaily colored flowers. 



Type locality : " In the bogs of Lower Carolina and Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Rhexia glabella Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 222. 1803. DEER GRASS. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 438. Chap. Fl. 132. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to eastern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Grassy pine barrens. Elmore County, 

 Coosada Station (E. A. Smith). Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Baldwin, and Mobile 

 counties. Flowers deep pink, large, June, July. Frequent. Common in the pine 

 barrens of the Coast plain. 



Type locality: "Hab. in sylvis Carolinae et Georgiae." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Herb. Mohr. 



