722 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Monniera caroliniana (Walt.) Kuntze, Kev. Gen. PL 2 : 463. 1891. 



CAROLINA MONNIERA. 



Obolaria caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 166. 1788. 



Monniera amplexicaulis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 22. 1803. 



Herpestis amplexicaulis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 418. 1814. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 104. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 384. Chap. Fl. 292. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 

 280. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Maryland to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Borders of ponds. Barbour County, Eufaula 

 (E. A. Smith). Flowers blue ; August. Rare. 

 Type locality : South Carolina. 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



MICRANTHEMUM Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 10. 1803. 



Sixteen species, low herbs, tropical and subtropical America. Atlantic North 

 America, 2; low aquatics. 



Micranthemum orbiculatum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 10, t. 2. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 17. Chap. Fl. 295. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 284. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 

 Herb. 2 : 312. 



WEST INDIES, CENTRAL AMERICA, BRAZIL, PERU. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida and western Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Muddy banks, shallow ponds. Mobile and Baldwin 

 counties. Flowers white; May to October. Common; creeping in dense tufts. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in udis opacisque sylvarum Carolinae et Georgiae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Micranthemum orbiculatum emarginatum (Ell.) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 26. 



1897. 



Micranthemum emarginatum Ell. Sk. 1 : 18. 1816. 



Louisianian area. Georgia. Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Gently-flowing brooklets. Baldwin County, Daphne. 

 Not frequent. Perennial. 



The orbiculate leaves from i to over inch wide, slightly emarginate, the 3 basal 

 nerves more prominent. Flowers closely sessile, smaller than in the type. Stems 

 6 to 8 inches long, floating in clear brooklets. 



Type locality : "Grows in ditches and wet places Vail' Ombrosa, Great Ogeechee. 

 In the upper country, common." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ILYSANTHES Raf. Ann. Nat. 13. 1820. 



Ten species, annuals, warmer regions of the globe. Atlantic North America, 5, 

 chiefly Southern. 



Ilysaiithes gratioloides (L.) Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10 : 419. 1846. 



HEDGE-HYSSOP-LIKE ILYSANTHES. 



.Capraria gratioloidcs L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 876. 1763. 



Gratiola anagallidea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 5. 1803. 



Ilysanthes riparia Raf. Ann. Nat. 13. 1820. 



Lindernia dilatata Muhl. Cat. 59. 1813. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 16. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 385. Chap. Fl. 294. Gray, Syn. Fl N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 

 283. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 311. 



SOUTH AMERICA, EASTERN ASIA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Brunswick, Ontario, and Minnesota to 

 Oregon and the Sierra Nevada; throughout the States east of the Mississippi River. 



ALABAMA: From the Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Muddy borders of 



streams, exposed muddy banks. Flowers white; June to September. Abundant. 

 Type locality: " Hab. in Virginiae aquosis." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Ilysanthes attenuata (Muhl.) J. K. Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 297. 1896. 



Lindernia attenuata Muhl. Cat. 59. 1813. 



Gratiola attenuata Spreng. Syst. 1 : 39. 1824. 



By later authors confounded with the last. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas, Ontario, Wisconsin, Missouri, south to 

 Georgia, 



