The American Midland Naturalist 



PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE UNIVERSITY 

 OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 



VOL. VI. MARCH, 1920. NO. 8 



Notes on Alabama Plants. 



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BY W. WOLF, O. S. B. 





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 TALINUM. 



Dr. Charles Mohr in the Systematic Catalogue of his principal 

 work, the Plant Life of Alabama, which appeared in 1901 as Vol. 

 VI., Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium, includes 

 Talinum teretifolium Pursh as a member of the Alabama Flora. 

 He mentions^ four counties where the species is definitely known 

 to have been discovered, and indicates its restricted distribution 

 there with the remark "not frequent, local." The counties men- 

 tioned lie in two distant sections of the State ; the one in the 

 central part of Northern Alabama, the other in the Eastern central 

 part of the State. Three of the four counties, which are adjoining, 

 are located in the former section, viz., Walker, Blount, and Cullman. 

 Special localities are given for Walker and Blount Counties, none 

 for Cullman. In the other section, a single station, Baldrock in 

 Clay County, is mentioned. The elevation of this last being specified 

 as 2200 feet, against 800 for Cullman and 1000 for Blount County, 



For the present it is not my purpose to discuss the identity of 

 the plants for the State in general with Talinum teretifolium Pursh 

 as I have not had an opportunity of examining specimens from the 

 several localities preserved in the herbarium of the Geological 

 Survey of Alabama. I cannot, however, wholly refrain from 

 touching on the matter in so far as Cullman County is concerned, 

 for I have discovered a species distinct from the Talinum tereti- 

 folium Pursh though closely related to it. Unfortunately Mohr 

 does not specify a definite locality for Cullman County. The 

 statement of altitude, however, is of some value, for it shows that 

 crests of higher elevation were not the station or stations where 



' 1. c. p. 496. 1901. 



