499 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
WEsT INDIEs, MEXICO TO ARGENTINA. 
Louisianian area. Coast of South Carolina to southern Florida. 
ALABAMA: Adventive on ballast. Mobile County, September, 1886 to 1895. Peren- 
nial. 
Type locality: ‘In America littoribus maris.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Alternanthera pungens H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 206. 1817. 
Telanthera pungens Mogq. in DC. Prodr. 13, pt.2:371. 1849. 
Alternanthera achyrantha var. leiantha Mart. FI. Bras. 5, pt. 1: 183, 1.55, 1855. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive from the West Indies on ballast heaps. Mobile County. 
August to October. Flowers white; perennial. Observed for a series of years until 
destroyed. . i 
Type locality: ‘‘Crescit in ripa Orinoci prope nobilem cataractam Maypurensium.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Alternanthera repens (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2:536. 1891. Forry Knov., 
Achyranthes repens L. Sp. Pl. 1: 225, 1753. ; 
Alternanthera achyrantha R. Br. Fl. Nov. Holl. 413. 1810. 
Illecebrum achyrantha Walt. F1. Car. 103. 1788. 
Ell. Sk.1:309. Chap. F1.382. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 67. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 
Herb. 2: 361. 
In most of the warmer regions of the globe. 
West Inpizs TO ARGENTINA, SOUTHERN EUROPE, ASIA. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry exposed places near dwellings. Mobile, pavements 
and sidewalks, streets of the city. Flowers white. August to November. Peren- 
nial, 
Economic uses: The herb is used domestically as a medicine. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Turcomannia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
TELANTHERA BR. Br. in Tuckey, Congo Exp. 477. 1818. 
About 56 species, littoral plants; perennials. West Indies to Brazil. 
Telanthera philoxeroides acutifolia Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13, pt. 2:363. 1849, 
Mart. FI. Bras. 5, pt. 1: t. 51, f. 11. 
Stem slender, 2 or 3 feet long, decumbent, rooting in the mud; lower part sub- 
mersed, upper part ascending; round, hollow, fleshy, pubescent in lines and at the 
internodes, else smooth like the opposite, oblong-lanceolate, slightly acuminate 
leaves which are attenuated at the base into a short, broad, pubescent petiole. 
Flowers white in roundish heads, borne near the apex of the stems on a stout pedun- 
cle shorter than the leaves. The scarious bracts ovate, cuspidate, shorter than the 
5-carinate, 3-nerved, acute, glabrous sepals. 
West Inp1Es, BRAZIL. 
ALABAMA: Stagnating tide-water streams. Mobile County. One-mile Creek, near 
its month, filling completely the bed of the creek. Flowers white. September, 1897. 
Adventive. 
Type locality: ‘In Brasilid prope 8. Paul civitatem, * * *, circa Bahiam 
* * *, prope Buenos-Ayres.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ACHYRANTHES L. Sp. Pl.1:204. 1753. 
Tropical and subtropical regions. 
Achyranthes aspera obtusifolia (Lam.) Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 62. 1864. 
Achyranthes obtusifolia Lam. Encycel. 1:545. 1783. 
West INpIEs, UNITED STATES, East INDIES. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive from the neighboring tropics. Mobile County, ballast 
grounds. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Cette plante croit naturellement dans l’Inde.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CELOSIA L. Sp. Pl. 1:205. 1753. 
About 35 species, tropical zone. 
Celosia margaritacea L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1:297. 1762. 
Fugitive from the tropics, on ballast. Mobile County. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
