686 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry sandy pine ridges. Mobile juul Baldwin 

 counties. Flowers pink; April, May. Common. 

 Type locality: " Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Phlox amoena Sims, Bot. Mag. 31 : 1. 1308. 1810. EARLY PHLOX. 



Phlox pilosa var. walleri Gray, Man. ed. 2, 331. 1856. 



P. pilosa Walt. Fl. Car. 90. 1788. Not L. 



P. n-alteri Chap. Fl. 339. 1860. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 247. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 355. Chap. Fl. 1. c. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 130. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia west to Kentucky, south- 

 western Missouri, and Arkansas, south along the mountains to Tennessee and Florida, 

 west to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. In light siliceous soil, open hills 

 and open copses. Winston County, Sipsey Valley, 1,200 feet. Cnllman Comity, 800 

 feet. Lee County, Auburn (Earle $- Underwood). Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, and 

 Baldwin counties. Flowers purplish pink; March to May. Frequent, most so in 

 the grassy pine barrens of the Lower Pine region. 



Type locality: "Near the Sant6e Canal, in South-Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Phlox divaricata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 152. 1753. BLUE PHLOX. SWEKT WILLIAM. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 248. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 355. Chap. Fl. 338. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1:131. 



Alleghenian to Louisianiau area. Ontario and northwestern New York, west to 

 Minnesota, Missouri, and Arkansas, and south to the Gulf, from Florida to western 

 Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Upper division of Coast Pine belt. Rich open 

 woods. Madison County, Montesano, 1,500 feet. Franklin County, Russellville. 

 Clarke County, Thomasville. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers lavender- 

 blue; April. Not infrequent, mostly in the mountains. 



Type locality : " Hab in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Phlox reptans Michx. Fl.Bor. Am. 1: 145. 1803. CREEPING PURPLE PHLOX. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 248. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 355. Chap. Fl. 338. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt, 

 1:131. 



Carolinian area. Allegheny Mountains from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, Tennes- 

 see, and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Cullman County, 800 to 1,000 feet (Miss M. Mohr). 

 Flowers rose-purple ; June. Rare. 



Type locality: "Hab. in excelsis montibus Carolinae occidentalis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb Mohr. 



GILIA Ruiz & Pav. Prodr. Fl. Per. 25, t. 4. 1794. 



About 75 species, Chile, Peru. North America, chiefly Western, about 50. South 

 Atlantic, 1. 



Gilia coronopifolia (Willd.) Pers. Syn. 1 : 187. 1805. SPANISH CYPRESS. 



Cantua coronopifolia Willd. Sp. PI. 1 : 879. 1797. 



Ipomopsis elegans Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 142. 1803. 



Polemonium rubrum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 163. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 260. Chap. Fl. 339. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 145. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 277. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. South Carolina to Florida, Arkansas, and 

 Texas. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Dry exposed places. Bibb County, Pratts Ferry. Flow- 

 ers scarlet; June, July. Biennial herb, 1| to 2 feet high, very showy. 



Economic uses : Frequently cultivated for ornament, under the name " Spanish 

 larkspur." 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolinae citerioris arenosis." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. 



POLEMONIUM L. Sp. PI. 1:162. 1753. 



About 15 species, temperate Europe, Asia, Chile. North America, 8; mostly 

 Western. 



Polemonium reptans L. Syst. ed. 10, 925. 1789. GREEK VALERIAN. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 261. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 356. Chap. Fl. 340. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1:151. 



