634 PLANT LIKE OF ALABAMA. 



Rhexia ciliosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 221. 1803. FRINGED MEADOW BEAUTY. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 439. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 183. Chap. Fl. 132. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. North Carolina to Florida and west to 

 Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Boggy borders of pine-barren streams. 

 Autanga County, Prattville. Clarke County (Dr. Denny}. Monroe, Washington, and 

 Mobile counties. Flowers rose-pink, June, July. Frequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina inferiore." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Rhexia lutea Walt. Fl. Car. 130. 1788. YELLOW MEADOW BEAUTY. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 440. Chap. Fl. 133. 



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



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Miry borders of ponds and ditches, low damp pine bar- 

 rens. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers golden yellow; May, June. Frequent. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ONAGRACEAE. Evening Primrose Family. 



JUSSIAE A L. Sp. PI. 1 : 388. 1753. 



Thirty-six species, aquatic and paludial perennial herbe, chiefly of warmer tem- 

 perate and tropical America to Brazil. North America, 5. 



Jussiaea diffusa Forsk. Fl. Aegypt. 2 : 10. 1775. CREEPING JUSSIAEA. 



Jussiaea repens Sw. Obs. 172. 1892. Not L. 



J. swartziana DC. Prodr. 3 : 54. 1828. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 187. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 620 ed. 3, 163. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 272, 

 in part. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 113. 



WEST INDIES, SOUTH AMERICA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York and Illinois, south to Florida, and 

 west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Central Prairie region. Shallow ponds, ditches. Montgomery County. 

 Flowers yellow; June to September. Abundant in the Coast plain. Floating and 

 rooting. 



Type locality: "Rosettae ad ripam Nili, in marginibus agrorum." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Jussiaea decurrens( Walt.) DC. Prodr. 3:56. 1828. DECURRENT-LEAF JUSSIAEA. 



Ludwigia decurrens Walt. Fl. Car. 89. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 217. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 187. Chap. Fl. 140. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 272. 



WEST INDIES TO BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia south to Florida, and west to Loui- 

 siana, Arkansas, and southern Illinois. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. Tennessee Valley. Franklin County, Russellville, low 

 thickets. Cullman County, 600 feet. Blount, Montgomery, and Mobile counties. 

 Flowers yellow, July, August. Frequent ; abundant in the coast region. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Jussiaea pilosa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6 : 801, t. 532. 1818. 



Jussiaea leptocarpa Nutt. Gen. 1 : 279. 1818. 



J. variaUlis G. F. W. Meyer, Prim. Fl. Esseq. 174. 1818. 



Chap. Fl. 140. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 272. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Florida to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Coast plain. Wet places, ditches, borders 

 swamps. Autauga County (E. A. Smith). Montgomery, Baldwin, and Mobile 

 counties. Flowers yellow, August to October. Frequent; abounding on the mud 

 flats at the mouth of Mobile River. 



Type locality: " Caracas, on the banks of the river Apures." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Jussiaea suffruticosa L. Sp. PI. 1 : 388. 1753. 

 WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL, EAST INDIES. 

 Louisianian area. 



