746 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Exposed rocky hillsides. Northern Alabama (Buckley). 

 Flowers brownish yellow ; July. Rare. Low shrub. 

 Type locality: "Mountains of North Carolina." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Diervilla rivularis Guttinger, Bot. Gaz. 13 : 191. 1888. 



Shrnb 2 to 5 feet high. Branchlets terete; leaves subsessile, ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, whitish below, all parts hirsutely pubescent; cymes often 

 numerous, 3 to 6 flowered ; corolla slightly bilabiate, the upper three divisions in 

 close contact, the lower more spreading; calyx lobes slender, lanceolate-subulate. 

 Flowers larger and handsomer than in 1). sessilifolia. 



Carolinian area. Tennessee. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Damp rocks. Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 

 Desoto Falls, near Mentone. Flowers July; yellow. 



In our specimens the flowers are smaller than in 7). xessttifolia, the cymes densely 

 flowered, and, like the fruit, viscid-pubescent. 



Type locality : " On the banks of ' Lula Falls/ Lookout Mountain, n few miles across 

 the Tennessee line in Georgia." 



VALERIANACEAE. Valerian Family. 



V \LERIANELLA Pollich, Hist. PI. Pal. 1 : 29. 1776. 

 (FEDIA Gaerfc. Fruct. 2 : 36. 1788.) 



About 50 species, temperate Europe. North America, 15. 

 Valerianella radiata (L.) Dufr. Hist. Val. 57. 1811. WILD LAMB SALAD. 



Valerianella locusta var. radiata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 34. 1753. 



Fedia radiata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 18. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1:42. Gray, Man. ed. 6,229. Chap. Fl. 184. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2:45. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 164. 



Alleghenian to Louisianiau area. Pennsylvania to Michigan, south to Florida, 

 west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. In low damp ground, fields, waysides. Cullman 

 County. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Lee County, Auburn. Mobile County. 

 Flowers white; March, April. Frequent. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Marilandiae arvis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



DIPSACEAE. Teasel Family. 



DIPSACUS L. Sp. PI. 1 : 97. 1753. 



Twelve species, warmer temperate regions, Europe, chiefly Mediterranean. 

 Dipsacus sylvestris Huds. Fl. Augl. 49. 1762. WILD TEASEL. 



EUROPK. 



Adventive. Sparingly naturalized in the Atlantic States. 



ALABAMA: Coast region, on ballast. Mobile County. June; infrequent. Annual. 



Type locality: " Hab. in iucultis frequens." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CUCURBITACEAE. Cucumber Family. 



CUCUMIS L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1010. 1753. 



Twenty-six species, warmer regions. 

 Cucumis colocynthis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 1435. 1763. COLOCYNTH. 



Adventive from Asia, Africa, southern Europe. 



ALABAMA : Fugitive on ballast. Collected with seeds fully matured October, 1883 

 and 1884. A coarse creeping annual. 



Economic uses : The fruit is the "Colocynthis" of the United States Pharmaco- 

 poeia. 



Type locality not given. 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



