614 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Corchorus aestuans L. Syst. ed. 10,2: 1079. 1759. 
Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.I. 97. 
West INpiIEs, SOUTH AMERICA. . 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile, September, 1894. Annual. 
Type locality not originally given. In L. Sp. Pl. ed.2: ‘Hab. in America calidiore.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
MALVACEAE. Mallow Family. 
ABUTILON Gaertn. Fruct. 2:251, ¢. 135. 1791. 
Seventy species, warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
Abutilon abutilon (L.) Rusby, Mem. Torr Club, 5: 222. 1893-94. VeLver Lnar. 
Sida abutilon L. Sp. Pl. 2: 685. 1753. 
Abutilon avicennae Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 251, t. 185. 1791. 
Ell. Sk. 2:162. Gray, Man. ed.6,99. Chap. FI. 55. 
Inpi4, widely spread in the warmer countries. ; 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Naturalized throughout the Atlantic States. 
ALABAMA: All over the State in cultivated grounds and on roadsides. Flowers 
yellow, June to September; not common. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Indiis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
MODIOLA Moench, Meth. 619. 1794. 
About half a dozen species, warmer regions South America to Brazil. North 
America, 1. 
Modiola caroliniana (L.) Don, Hist. Dichl. Pl. 1:466. 1831. CaroLINa MALLow. 
Malva caroliniana L. Sp. Pl. 2: 688. 1753. 
Modiola multifida Moench, Meth. 619. 1794. 
Ell. Sk. 2:163. Gray, Man.ed.6,100. Chap. F1.56. Griseb. Fl. Brit, W. Ind. 72. 
West Inpiges, SOUTHERN Mexico, SouTH AMFRICA, JUAN FERNANDEZ. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia and North Carolina to Flor- 
ida, west to Louisiana. | 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Light sandy soil, roadsides, waste 
places. Tuscaloosa County (£..4. Smith). Mobile County. Flowers scarlet, May 
to July. A common weed. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
MALVA L. Sp. Pl. 2:687, 1753. 
Thirty species, temperate regions, Europe. 
Malva rotundifolia L. Sp. Pl. 2: 688. 1753. ComMMoN MALLow. 
Adventive from Europe, naturalized in the Eastern United States. 
ALABAMA: Over the State, near dwellings. Mobileand Baldwin counties. Flowers 
in June, July. Not frequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Europae ruderatis, viis, plateis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Malva brasiliensis Desr. in Lam. Encycl.3:744. 1789. BRAZILIAN MALLOW. 
Fugitive on ballast from the tropics. Mobile, first collected June, 1893. 
Type locality: ‘‘Au Bresil, ot elle fut trouvée, par Commerson, & Vile aux Chats, 
dans la rade de Rio-Janeiro.” 
CALLIRRHOE Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 2:181. 1821. 
Seven species. Perennial herbs, North American. 
Callirrhoe papaver (Cav.) Gray, Pl. Fendl.17. 1849. PopPpYLiIkr MALLOw. 
Malva papaver Cav. Diss. 2: 64, t. 15, f.3. 1790. 
M., nuttalloides Croom, Am. Journ. Sci. 26: 313, 328. 1834. 
Chap. F1.53. 
Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida, west to Louisiana and Arkansas, 
