646 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County. Flowers white ; April. Not frequent. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 

 Herb. Mohr. 



Chaerophyllum tainturieri Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1 :47. 1835. 



TAINTURIER'S CHERVIL. 



Chaerophyllum procumbens var. tainturieri Coult. &. Rose, Bot. Gaz. 12 : 160. 1887. 



Chap. Fl. 165. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 146. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia, Tennessee, and Missouri, 

 south to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills to Coast plain. Metamorphic hills. Shaded banks, bor- 

 ders of fields. Lee County, Auburn. Dallas County, Marion Junction. Mont- 

 gomery and Mobile counties. Flowers white; April. Frequent. Annual. 



Type locality: "New Orleans" (M. Tainturier). 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SCANDIX L. Sp. PI. 1 : 256. 1753. 



Scandix pecten-veneris L. Sp. PI. 1 : 256. 1753. . VENUS'S COMB. 



EUROPE, NORTH ASIA. 



ALABAMA : Fugitive on ballast. Mobile ; May. Observed in 1886 and 1892. 

 Type locality: "Hab. inter Germaniae et Europae australioris segetes." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



WASHINGTONIA Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 2 : 176. 1818. 



(OSMORHIZA Raf. Am. Mouth. Mag. 2 : 176. 1818.) 

 (GLYCOSMA Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 639. 1840.) 

 Twelve species, Atlantic and western North America. 



Washingtonia claytoni (Michx.) Britton in Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 2 : 530. 1897. 



SWEET CICELY. 



Myrrhis claytoni Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 170. 1803. 



Osmorhiza Irevistylis DC. Prodr. 4 :232. 1830. 



O. claytoni C. B. Clarke in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 : 690. 1879. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 358. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 210. Chap. Fl. 166. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario; New England, 

 west to Minnesota, south to the Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Arkansas, and along the 

 mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rich woodlands. Madison County, Montesano, 

 1,500 feet. Root sweet, aromatic. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in montibus Alleghanis." 



Herb. Mohr. 



Washingtonia longistylis (Torr.) Britton in Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 2 :530. 1897. 



SMOOTHER SWEET CICELY. 



Myrrhis longistylis Torr. Fl. N. & Mid. U. S. 310. 1824. 



Osmorhiza longistylis DC. Prodr. 4 : 232. 1830. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 210. 



JAPAN. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New Brunswick and Quebec to Manitoba; 

 New Jersey to Minnesota, Dakota, and Nebraska, south along the mountains to 

 Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers in June. 

 Very rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : "In wet meadows near Albany, New York. Tracy. Near Geneva, 

 N.Y. Paine. June. Near Hudson, N. Y. Alsop, &c." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CONIUM L. Sp. PI. 1 : 243. 1753. 



Two species, biennials. Europe, Asia. 

 Conium maculatum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 243. 1753. POISON HEMLOCK. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 209. 



EUROPE. 



Naturalized in New England, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Minnesota. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Adventive on ballast. Waste places. Mobile County, 

 banks of Mobile River. Flowers white; May. Two to 3 feet high. 



