PAESLEY FAMILY. 649 



ALABAMA : Coosa Valley to Coast plain. Damp sandy or gravelly places. Etowali 

 County. Ballplay, open damp pine flats. Henry. Franklin, and Mobile counties. 

 Flowers white, July, August; fruit ripe October." Infrequent; met with more fre- 

 quently in the interior. Annual. 



Type locality : " In North America at Red River." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



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



Seven species. Warmer temperate Europe, Asia. 

 Ammi visiiaga Lam. Fl. Fr. 3 : 462. 1778. TOOTHPICK BISHOP'S WEED. 



MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE, WESTERN ASIA, NORTHERN AFRICA. 



ALABAMA: Adventive on ballast, Mobile. Flowers white. May, June; fruit ripe 

 August, September. Constant on the same locality for the past ten years without 

 spreading. Biennial. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Type locality : " Cette plante croit dans les Provinces me'ridionales de la France 

 et dans le Levant." 



Ammi majus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 243. 1753. GREATER BISHOP'S WEED. 



From the same region as the last ; introduced at Mobile, and here and there escaped 

 from gardens. A showy annual 4 or 5 feet high, unfolding its numerous large umbels 

 of white flowers in May and June. Biennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Europa australi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



HYDROCOTYLE L. Sp. PI. 1 : 234. 1753. 



About 75 species, perennials, widely distributed over warmer regions, chiefly in 

 the Southern Hemisphere. North America, 9. 



Hydrocotyle umbellata L. Sp. PL 1 : 234. 1753. WATER PENNYWORT. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 346. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211. Chap. Fl. 159. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 149. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 307. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. Southeastern New England ; west to Michigan, 

 south along the coast to Florida; west to Texas. 



ALABAMA : Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Stagnating water, deep ditches, 

 miry pools, often floating. Autauga, Montgomery, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. 

 Flowers in May. Abundant on the wet borders of the river swamps in the coast 

 plain. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hydrocotyle canbyi Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 12 : 103. 1887. 



CANBY'S PENNYWORT. 



Hydrocotyle umbeUata amligua Gray, Man. ed. 5,190. 1867. Not H. ambigua Pursh. 

 Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey and Maryland. 

 ALABAMA : Coast plain. Muddy borders of ponds. Mobile County ; rare. 

 Type locality : "New Jersey to Maryland." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunb. Diss. 2 : 415. 1798. WHORLED PENNYWORT. 



Hf/drocotyle interrnpta Muhl. Cat. 30. 1813. 



EH. Sk. 1 : 345. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211. Chap. Fl. 159. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 149. 



MEXICO, BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast southern Massachusetts to Florida, west 

 to Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, and southern California. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Damp and wet places. Mont- 

 gomery County. Barbour County. Eufaula County (E. A. Smith). Baldwin and 

 Mobile counties ; abundant. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hydrocotyle ranunculoides L. f. Suppl. 177. 1781. CROWFOOT-LIKE PENNYWORT. 

 Ell. Sk. 1 : 346. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 211. Chap. Fl. 159, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:149. 



