698 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to Lower hills. Low,wet, shaded places, bottom lands. 

 Lee County, Auburn (F. S. Earle). Lauderdale, Blount, and Jefferson counties. 

 Flowers purplish; June. Roots stolouiferous. Perennial. 



Economic uses: The herb, under the name of "bugleweed," is used medicinally. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Herb. Mohr. 

 Lycopus rubellus Moench, Meth. Suppl. 146. 1802. REDDISH BUGLEWEED. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 408. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 375. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 353. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to Louisiana, 

 Arkansas and southwestern Missouri. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region, Coast plain. Borders of swamps, ditches. Mobile 

 County. Flowers white to pale pink ; August to October. Common. Stoloniferous, 

 2 to 2| feet high. Perennial. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CUNILA L. Syst. ed. 10, 2 : 1359. 1759. 



Fifteen species, North America, Mexico. South America to Argentina. 

 Cunila origanoides (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 278. 1894. AMERICAN DITTANY. 



Satureia origanoides L. Sp. PI. 2 : 568. 1753. 



Cunila mariana L. Syst. ed. 10, 1359. 1759. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 27. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 409. Chap. Fl. 313. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 353. 



Carolinian area. New Jersey, Virginia, and the Ohio Valley to Missouri, Arkansas, 

 and Tennessee, and along the mountains to North Carolina and northern Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley, Mountain region, Lower hills. Dry rocky woods and 

 hillsides. Lauderdale County. Cullman County, 800 feet. Blount and Tuscaloosa 

 counties. Flowers purplish ; July, August. Frequent. Perennial. 



Economic uses: The herb called "mountain dittany" is used in domestic medicine. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



KOELLIA Moench, Meth. 417. 1794. 

 (BRACHYSTEMON Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 5. 1803.) 

 (PYCNANTHEMUM Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 7. 1803. ) 



Sixteen species, perennial herbs. Atlantic America, Alleghenian, and Southerr. 

 Pacific, 1. 



Koellia nuda (Nutt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 520. 1891. 



BARE STEMMED HORSEMINT. 



Pycnanthemum nudum Nutt. Gen. 2 : 34. 1818. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 81. Chap. Fl. 315. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 354. 



Louisianian' area. South Carolina (low country) and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Upper division Coast Pine belt. Grassy shaded banks in sandy soil. 

 Dale County (Chapman). Flowers white; August, September, rare. 



Type locality: " In the mountains of Carolina and Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Koellia hyssopifolia (Benth.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 279. 1894. 



HYSSOP- LEAF MOUNTAIN MINT. 



Pycnanthemum hyssopifolium Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 329. 1834. 



P. aristatum var. hyssopifolium Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 354. 1878. 



Chap. Fl. 314. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 409. " 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt. Dry open places. Tuscaloosa County. Chilton 

 County (E. A. Smith). Flowers white; July. Rare. 



Type locality: "Hab. in America boreali: in Virginia herb. Hooker! Carolina 

 Bosc! Georgia Torrey! Louisiana Drummond!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Koellia flexuosa (Walt.) MacMillan, Metasp. Minn. Val.452. 1892. 



VIRGINIAN THYME. 



Satureja thymus virginicus L. Mant. 2 : 409. 1771. Not Satureja virginiana L. 1753. 

 Origanum flexuosum Walt. Fl. Car. 165. 1788. 

 Pycnanthemum linifolium Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 409. 1814. 



