580 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Type locality (Jacq. Hort. Vind.): ‘‘Semina hujus plantae mecum ex Americes 
zona torrida attuli. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vigna catjang (L.) Walp. Linnaea, 13 :533. 1839. Cow Pa. 
Dolichos catjang L. Mant. 2: 269. 1771. 
Introduced from eastern Asia and extensively cultivated. In many varieties per- 
haps hybridized with Dolichos sinensis L. (Cent. Pl. 2: 28). 
Sparsely escaped from cultivation. 
Type locality: ‘Hab, in India orientali.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
DIOCLEA H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6:437. 1823. 
About 16 species, of warmer America. 
Dioclea multiflora (Torr. & Gray). Boyxin’s D1ociEa. 
Dolichus multiflorus Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1:281, 1838. 
Dioclea boykinit Gray; Wats. Bibl. Ind. 219. 1878. 
Chap. FI. 110. 
Louisianian area. Southern Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Rich bottoms. Hale County, Gallion, Prairie 
Creek. Flowers purple. June. So far only locally observed. Perennial from u 
slender running rootstock several fet in length, climbing over bushes. It has been 
observed in abundance throughont the Mississippi bottom and along the Lochapa- 
hila in Mississippi, and there can be no doubt that the plant is also frequent in the 
river bottoms in the western parts of the State, which so far have been but slightly 
explored, 
Type locality: “Alluvial banks of the Oconee River, Georgia, Dr. Boykin! 
Arkansas, Dr. Leavenworth !” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
GALACTIA P. Browne, Hist. Jam. 298. 1756.! 
About 50 species, perennials, of warmer America, West Indies, Mexico, Eastern 
North America, 14. 
Galactia regularis (L.) B. 8. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 14. 1888. Mix Pxa. 
Dolichos regularis L. Sp. Pl. 2:726. 1753. 
Galactia glabella Michx. FI. Bor. Am. 2:62, 1803. 
Ell. Sk. 2:239. Gray, Man. ed. 6,146. Chap. Fl. 109. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, Southern New York and New Jersey, south to 
Florida, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Lower Pine region. Dry sandy woods. Autauga 
County, Prattville. Clarke County.. Monroe County, Claiborne. Mobile and Bald- 
win counties. Flowers purplish. June, July. Frequent in the rolling pine bar- 
rens. The form with oblong-ovate, acute leaves, var. § Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A.- 
1: 287, from Prattville. 
Type locality: “‘ Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Galactia volubilis (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 208. 1894. 
TWINING MILK PEA. 
Hedysarum volubile L. Sp. Pl. 2:750. 1753. 
Galactia mollis Nutt. Gen. 2:117, 1818. Not Michx. 1803. 
G. pilosa Ell. Sk. 2:238, 1824, Not Nutt. 
G. macrei M. A. Curtis, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1: 120. 1837. 
Ell. Sk. 2:238. Gray, Man. ed.6,146. Chap. FI. 108. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, Southern New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
Tennessee; North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the coast. The type chiefly in upper districts to 
Central Pine belt. Flowers purple. July to September; frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in America septentrionali.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Galactia volubilis mississippiensis Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 508. 1895. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina. 
} Anna M. Vail, A study of the genus Galactia in North America, Bull. Torr. Club, 
vol. 22, pp. 500 to 511. 1895. 
