498 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
VACCARIA Medic. Phil. Bot. 1:96. 1789. 
Vaccaria vaccaria (L.) Britton in Britt. & Br. IL Fl.2:18. 1897. COWHERB, 
Saponaria raccaria L. Sp. Pl.1:409. 1753. 
Vaccaria vulgaris Host. Fl. Aust. 1:518. 1827. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 83. ae 2) 
Adventive from ;urope. Occasionally met with in Canada and throughout. the 
Atlantic States, and in Colorado. 
ALABAMA: Mobile County, cultivated ground. Flowers May, June; pink. Rare. 
Annual. 
Type locality: “‘ Hab. inter segetes Galliae, Germaniae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SAGINA L. Sp. PL.1:128. 1753, PHARLWORT. 
Abont 12 species, temperate regions of Europe and North America. 
Sagina decumbens (Ell.) Torr. & Gray, FI.N.A.1: 177, 1838. 
Spergula decumbens Ell. Sk.1:523. 1817. * 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 89. Chap. Fl. 48; ed. 3, 41. — 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York west to southern Illinois and Mis- 
souri, south to North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and southern Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Central Pine belt. Pastures, roadsides. Cullman 
County. Tuscaloosa County (£. A. Smith). Flowers April; rare. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in fields and pastures [South Carolina and Georgia].” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sagina decumbens smithii (Gray) Wats. Bibl. Index, 105. 1878. 
Sagina subulata smithii Gray, Man. ed.5,95. 1867. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 89. 1890. ‘ 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of New Jersey to Florida, west to 
Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. In dry sandy soil. Barren 
fields, roadsides. Montgomery and Mobile counties. Flowers March, April; very 
common. Annual. 
The plants examined from the lower countries of Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi 
belong to this variety. From the remark of Elliott, “Seeds roughish under a 
strong microscope,” it appears that some of the plants under his type belong to this 
variety. 
Type locality: ‘‘Near Philadelphia, in waste ground, and sandy fields, &c., Somers 
Point, N. J.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CERASTIUM L. Sp. Pl. 1: 487. 1753. 
' Fifty to 60 species of the temperate regions Northern Hemisphere. North Amer- 
ica, Y. 
Cerastium longipedunculatum Muhl. Cat. 46. 1813. NODDING CHICKWEED. 
Cerastium nutans Raf. Prec. Decouv. 36. 1814. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 88. Chap. F1. 50. 
MEXICO. 
Hudsonian zone to Carolinianarea. Nova Scotia and Ontario to Hudsons Bay, Brit- 
ish Columbia, and Vancouver; New England west to Minnesota, Nebraska, the 
Rocky Mountains, and Washington, south to Ohio, Tennessee, and North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills, Tuscaloosa County (Z. A. Smith). Flowers white. May; 
rare. Annual. , 
Type locality: ‘‘ Pensylvania.” 
Herb. Geo]. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Cerastium viscosum L. Sp. Pl.1:4387. 1753. MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED. 
Cerastium glomeratum Thuill. Fl. Paris, ed. 2,226. 1796. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 88. Chap. F1.50. 
EUROPE. 
Widely spread over North America from Canada to the Gulf. Most probably 
introduced. 
