ST. JOHNS-WORT FAMILY. 619 
MELOCHIA L. Sp. Pl. 2:932.. 1753. 
About 35 species, mostly of tropical America. 
Melochia corchorifolia L. Sp. Pl. 2: 675. 1753. TiirsuTE MELOcCHIA. 
Melochia hirsuta Chap. Fl. Suppl.610. 1883. Not Cav. 
Chap. Fl. Suppl. 610; ed. 3, 54. 
West INDIEs TO BRAZIL. 
Louisianian area. Southern Georgia, naturalized. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Adventive on ballast. Mobile. Flowers purplish, July 
to September; fruit ripe October. A perennial weed, first observed on newly broken 
ground in the suburbs of Mobile, October, 1874. Subsequently seen on ballast, and 
since 1882 spreading abundantly in cultivated ground, where it has become a per- 
nicious weed, very injurious to the hay crop. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in India.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
WALTHERIA L. Sp. Pl. 2:673. 1753. 
Sixteen species, tropical America. Perennials. 
Waltheria americana lL. Sp. Pl. 2:673. 1753. AMERICAN WALTHERIA. 
Chap. F1. 59, Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 95. 
West InpriErs, MEXICO To BRAZIL. 
Tropical Florida. 
, ALEBEMAS Adventive with ballast. Mobile, September, 1892-93. Not observed 
ately. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Bahama, Barbiches, Surinamo.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
HYPERICACEAE. St. Johns-wort Family.! 
ASCYRUM L. Sp. Pl. 2: 788. 1753. 
Five species, undershrubs, warmer temperate regions, West Indies, Mexico, Atlan- 
tic North America. 
Ascyrum multicaule Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:77. 1803. St. ANDREW’s Cross. 
Ascyrum crux-andreae L. Sp. Pl. 2: 788. 1753. In part, and of most American 
authors. 
Ell. Sk. 2:22, in part, Gray, Man. ed.6, 92,in part. Chap. Fl. 38, in part; ed. 3, 56, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England west to southern 
Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska, south to the Gulf, from Florida to Louisiana and 
Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Damp and dry borders of woods, open copses. Lauderdale County. 
Morgan County, Falkville. Cullman County. Tuscaloosa County (£. A. Smith). 
Clarke, Monroe, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers July to October. Shrubby 
at the base, 2 to 3 feet high. A low form with compact branches, and smaller 
glaucous leaves occurs on dry hills in the mountainous region. Clay County, 
Delta, 1,700 feet. 
Considering the confusion existing between Ascyrum crux-andreae and A. hypericoides 
L., the first of these names has been replaced by Hypericum multicaule Michx. This 
species embraces all the northern forms described under 4. crux-andreae and those ot 
the same specific characters occurring southward. i 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab in Virginia, Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Ascyrum hypericoides L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2:1107. 1763. SouTHERN St. PETER’s-worr. 
Ascyrum crux-andreae var. angustifolium Nutt. Gen. 2:16. 1818 (?) 
A. crus-andreae of most Southern authors. 
Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:34. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 112. 
West INDIES, MEXICO. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and southern Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Sandy pine barrens in dry and damp soil. 
Escambia, Washington, Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers July to Septem- 
ber; frequent. Densely branched shrub 14 to 2 feet high. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Virginia, Jamaica.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
