708 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, Ontario ; New England west to 

 Nebraska, south to Florida and the Gulf, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Damp thickets, low banks. Cullman, Tuscaloosa, 

 Montgomery, and Mobile counties. Flowers rose-purple; July to September. Not 

 infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Canada." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Teucrium nashii Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 484. 1894. NASH'S GERMANDER. 



Canescent by a fine closely appressed pubescence ; leaves short-petioled, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, dark green and minutely appressed-pubescent above, 

 beneath white tomentose with the veins prominent, finely equally serrate; calyx 

 white tomentose. 



Louisianian area. Florida. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Damp shaded banks. Mobile County, foot of Springhill, 

 Portersville. Flowers pale purple; May. Not frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Collected in middle Florida in 1836, by Dr. Chapman; in Dnval 

 County, Florida, by Mr. A. H. Curtiss * *, and near Eustis, Florida, in 1894, 



by Mr. George V. Nash." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Teucrium cubense L. Mant. 1 : 80. 1767. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 349. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 333. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA. 



Louisianian area. Southern Florida to southwestern Texas and southeastern 

 California. 



ALABAMA: Adventive on ballast. Mobile Count v; August, September; collected 

 in 1889 and 1893. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Cubae humidiusculis." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Herb. Mohr. 



SOLANACEAE. Nightshade Family. 



PHYSALODES Boehrn. in Ludwig, Def. 42. 1760. 



(NiCANDRA Adans. Fain. PI. 2 : 219. 1763.) 

 One species, Peru. 



Physalodes physalodes (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 287. 1894. 



APPLE OF PERU. 



Atropa physalodes L. Sp. PI. 1: 181. 1753. 



Physalis peruviana Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 16. 1768. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 277. Gray, Man. ed, 6, 376. Chap. Fl. 351. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 237. 



Carolinian area. Adventive and naturalized from southern Ontario to Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, and Missouri, and along the mountains to North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Waste places, near dwellings. Winston County, 

 1,500 feet. Clay County, summit of Delta divide, 1,600 feet. Flowers purplish; 

 July, August. Not frequent. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Peru. D. B. Jussieu." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LYCIUM L. Sp. PI. 1 : 191. 1753. 



Seventy species, warmer and tropical regions, both hemispheres. Shrubs often 

 spinose. Northern Europe, Asia, north and south Africa, West Indies to Brazil. 

 North America, 14; South Atlantic States, 1. 



Lycium carolinianum Walt. Fl. Car. 84. 1788. CAROLINA Box THORN. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 200. Chap. Fl. 351. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 238. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 302. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA : Littoral region. Swampy sea beach. Mobile County, West Fowl 

 River. Baldwin County. Flowers blue, June; fruit ripe October, flame scarlet. 

 Not infrequent. Shrub 2 to 3 feet high. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



