PLANTAIN FAMILY. 735 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Gently-flowing water. Cullman 

 County, 800 feet altitude. Mobile County. Flowers azure; June. Frequent. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Dianthera ovata Walt. Fl. Car. 63. 1788. Low WATER WILLOW. 



Jnsticia numiUs Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 8. 1803. 



Dianthera humilis Engelin. & Gray ; Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 329. 



Chap. Fl. 304. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1. c. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb 2 : 324. 



Louisianian area. Lower South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Wet muddy banks of streams, shaded ditches, shallow 

 pools. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers blue; July to September. Not in- 

 frequent. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Dianthera ovata lanceolata Chap. Fl. 304. 1860. 



Louisianian area. Florida. 



ALABAMA: Upper division Coast Pine belt. Muddy banks. Wilcox County, Allen- 

 ton, June 27, 1893. 



Type locality: "River banks, Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



YBATBSIA Small. Bull. Torr. Club. 23 : 410. 1896. 



(GATESIA Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 13 : 365. 1878. Not Bertol. 1848.) 



Perennial monotype, south Atlantic America. 

 Yeatesia laetevirens (Buckley) Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 410. 1896. 



Bhytiglossa viridiflora Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 9 : 346. 1840. 



Justicia laetevirens Buckley, Am. Journ. Sci. 45 : 176. 1843. 



Dicliptera halei Riddell, N. Orl. Med. Journ. 1852. (Cat. Fl. Lud.) Chap. Fl. 305. 

 1860. 



Gatesia laetevirens Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 13 : 365. 1878. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 330. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 325. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Louisiana to western Texas. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Central Prairie region. Rich copses, borders of woods. 

 Bibb County, Pratt's Ferry. Montgomery County, banks of Pintlalla Creek. Flow- 

 ers pale purple; June, July. Said to open in the night, the corolla dropping early 

 next day (Dr, Cabell) 



Type locality : "Near rivers in shady woods, Wilcox Co., Alabama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PLANT AGIN ACE AE. Plantain Family. 



PLANTAGO L.Sp. PL 1:112. 1753. PLANTAIN. 



About 200 species, mostly temperate regions. 

 Plaiitago major L. Sp. PI. 1 : 112. COMMON WAYSIDE PLANTAIN. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 423. Chap. Fl. 277. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 389. 



EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, NORTHERN AND WESTERN ASIA. 



Naturalized from Europe. Almost throughout the continent. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. Low waste places near dwellings, waysides, borders of 

 ditches. Flowers May to August; common. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europa ad vias." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Plantago cordata Lam. Tabl. 1 : 338. 1796. 

 Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 389. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 423. 

 Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana. 

 ALABAMA: Fide Gray. 

 Type locality : "E Canada." 



Plaiitago rugelii Decsne. in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 1 : 700. 1852. 



Plantago major Ell. Sk. 1 : 201. 1817. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 423. Chap. Fl. 277. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 389. 

 Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 :344. 



