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Rarer Plants of Alabama. 



Art. XII. — List of the Rarer Plants found in Alabama 5 

 by Melines C. Leavenworth, M. D. (Communi- 

 cated in a letter to Charles Hooker, M. D.) 



Dear Sir, 



Agreeably to your request I have made out a list of the 

 rarer plants which I have observed in Alabama, not men- 

 tioning the few new species described by me, in the 7th 

 Vol. of the Am. Journ. of Science. This list is made out 

 from recollection, and I know it does not include all the 

 the rare plants which I have seen in that state. 



Justicia brachiata, (on the banks 



of the Alabama at Cahawbtt) 

 Ixia cselestina, (prairies in the 



neighborhood of Demopolis) 

 Obolaria virginica, (Cahawba) 

 Dodaettheon media, (Demopolis) 

 VUlarsia cordata, (Coneucah 



County) 

 Nartheeium americanum, (De- 

 mopolis) 

 Fhalangium esculentum, (do.) 

 Anemone bulbosa, (^o.) 



^sculua macrostacbya, (Monroe; 

 Vacoinium album, (Tuscaloosa) 

 Hydrangea nivea 

 Gilienia stipulacea 

 Talinum teretifolium 

 Cyamui pentapetalus, (Mobile) 

 Vallisneria americana, (do.) 

 Gerardia cuneifolia ? (This plant 

 which grows in the prairies of 

 Green County, is probably 

 new and undescribed. I men^ 

 tion it to direct the attention 

 of Botanists to it.) 



^ew-York, Dec, ^5th, 1824. 



Seymeria pectinata, (do.) 

 Illicium floridanum, (Tuscaloo-) 



sa) 

 Cardamine uniflora, (Jefferson 



County) 

 Dalea alopecuroides, (prairies) 

 Petalostemum violaceum, (do.) 

 Polygala corymbosa 

 Cacalia tuberosa, (Demopolis) 

 Acacia glandulosa, (Green Coun- 



ty) 



Silphium gummosum, E. (Perry 



County) 

 Mikania glutinosa, E. (Perry 



County) 

 Pogonia ophioglossoides, (Cahaw- 

 ba) 

 Triphora pendula, (Perry County) 

 Tragia macrocarpa, (do.) 

 Melothria pendula, (do.) 

 Podostemum ceratophyllum 

 Cyumus nelumbium, (Tombigby 



below Demopolis) 

 Panax quinquefolia, (Tuscaloosa) 

 Polemonium reptans, (do.) 



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