204 HARPER 



Said to be widely distributed in the Eastern United States 

 (but perhaps not everywhere native?). 



ASCYRUM L., Sp. PI. 788. 1753. 

 A. stans Mx., Fl. 2 : 77. 1803. 



Moist pine-barrens; not common, dodge, coffee, berrien, 

 colquitt. Fl. summer. Extends inland to Sumter 

 County and coastward to Camden. 

 New Jersey to central Florida, Arkansas, and Texas, mostly 



in the coastal plain. 

 Leaf-anatomy described by Kearney, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 5 U95- i9 01 - 

 A. pumilum Mx., 1. c. 



Dry and intermediate pine-barrens, etc. tattnall, coffee 



(676), IRWIN, BERRIEN, DOOLY, COLQUITT, THOMAS. 



South to Florida and west to Mississippi, in the pine-barrens. 



MALVACEAE. 

 HIBISCUS L., Sp. PI. 693. 1753 

 H. aculeatusWalt.,Fl. Car. 177. 1788. 



Intermediate pine-barrens; rather rare, tattnall, coffee, 

 wilcox. Fl. July-Aug. Also in Sumter, Lee, Lowndes, 

 Charlton, and Chatham Counties. 

 South Carolina to northern Florida and Louisiana, in the pine- 

 barrens. 



SIDA L., Sp. PI. 683. 1753. 



S. RHOMBIFOLIA L., Sp. PI. 684. 1753. TEA WEED. 



Streets of Douglas and Tifton. Also in several other South 



Georgia cities. Fl. July-Aug. 

 North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana, in the coastal plain. 



Introduced from the tropics. 



CALLIRHOE Nutt., Jour. Acad. Phila. 2 : 181. 182 1. 

 C. Papaver (Cav.) Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 4 117. 1848. 

 tattnall: Sandy west bank of Ohoopee River, June 24, 1903. 

 Rare. June- July. Also in Pulaski (according to Croom, 

 Am. Jour. Sci. 28 : 168. 1835) and Dooly Counties in the 

 Lower Oligocene region. 



