BORAGE FAMILY. 689 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA. 

 Louisianian area. Florida to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Waste places, roadsides. Mobile County. Flowers white ; 

 June to October. Common about the city. Annual. 

 Type locality (L. Sp. PI. ed. 2) : " Hab. in Jamaica." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



BOEAGINACEAE. Borage Family. 



HELIOTROPIUM L. Sp. PL 1 : 130. 1753. 



One hundred and fifteen species, warmer regions of the globe. North America, 14, 

 Southern and Southwestern. 



Heliotropium europaeum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 130. 1753. EUROPEAN HELIOTROPE. 



EUROPE. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Sparingly naturalized from southern New 

 York to the Gulf. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley and Coast plain. Waste places. Morgan County, 

 Decatur. Lawrence County, Moulton, near dwellings. Mobile County, persistent 

 near the shipping and on ballast heaps. Flowers white ; August, October. Not 

 infrequent. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Europa australi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Heliotropium curassavicum L. Sp. PL 1 : 130. 1753. SEASIDE HELIOTROPE. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 224. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 361. Chap. Fl. 330. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, 

 pt. 1 : 185. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 285. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO CHILE, AUSTRALIA. 



Carolinian to Louisianian area. Seashore of southern Virginia to Florida, west to 

 Texas and southern Illinois. Saline desert region of the interior to Oregon. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Saline marshes. Mobile and Baldwin counties. 

 Flowers pearl blue; July to October. Frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Americae calidioris maritinris." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Heliotropium tenellum (Nutt.) Torr. in Macy's Rep. 304, t.14. 1853. 



Lithospermum tenellum Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 5 : 188. 1837. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 361. Chap. FL Suppl. 639; ed. 3, 359. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, 

 pt. 1 : 184. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 285. 



SOUTH AMERICA, AUSTRALIA. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. Southern Missouri and Kansas to western 

 Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas. 



ALABAMA : Central Prairie region. Dry exposed places, pastures, roadsides. Mont- 

 gomery County. Flowers white ; July/ Infrequent. Annual. 



Type locality : "In arid places in the prairies of Red River," Arkansas. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Heliotropium indicum L. Sp. PL 1 : 130. 1753. INDIAN HELIOTROPE. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 224. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 362. Chap. Fl. 330. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 186. 



Introduced from the Tropics. Fully naturalized in the Ohio Valley, and thence to 

 Florida and the eastern Gulf States. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley and along the river valleys to the coast. Cultivated 

 and waste grounds. Tuscaloosa County. Flowers azure ; August to October. Every- 

 where, southward common. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in India utraque." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Heliotropium anchusaefolium Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 3 : 23. 1813. 



Chap. FL Suppl. 639 ; ed. 3, 360. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 186. 



SOUTHERN BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 



Louisianian area. Sparingly naturalized. Florida, middle Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Waste places near dwellings. Montgomery 

 County. Flowers rose-purple; July. Not frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Cette plante croit a Buenos- Ay res." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



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