630 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
PASSIFLORACEAE. Passion Flower Family. 
PASSIFLORA L. Sp. Pl. 2: 959. 1753. 
About 130 species, chiefly of tropical America from West Indies to Brazil. North 
America 9. 
Passiflora incarnata L. Sp. Pl. 2:959. 1753. Mayporp. COMMON PASSION FLOWER, 
Ell. Sk. 2:153. Gray, Man. ed.6, 194. Chap. Fl. 147. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:121. 
Cua, BRAZIL, PERU. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia west to Kentucky; Missouri and 
Arkansas, south to Florida, and throughout the Gulf States to western Texas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Dry, waste, and cultivated 
ground. Cullman County, 800 feet. Mobile County. Flowers purple and white; 
April, May. Fruit ripe June, July, greenish yellow, the pulp edible. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Virginia, Brasilia, Peru.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Passiflora lutea L. Sp. Pl. 2:958. 1753. YELLOW Passion FLOWER. 
Ell. Sk.2:154. Gray, Man. od.6, 194. Chap. FI. 147. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia and Ohio to Missouri, south to Florida, 
west to Louisiana and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Damp thickets. Morgan County, 
Decatur. Cullman County, 800 feet. Tuscaloosa County. Jefferson County (L. 4. 
Smith). Clarke County (Dr. Denny). Mobile County. Flowers dull yellow; June. 
Not rare. Climbing over bushes. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Virginiae, Jamaicae glareosis, saxosis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CACTACEAE. Cactus Family. 
OPUNTIA Mill. Gard. Dict. ed.7. 1759. PRICKLY P£zAR, 
About 150 species, of subtropical and tropical America. North America, mostly 
western (Sonoran areas) and adjacent parts of Mexico 101. 
; RAFINESQUE’S PRICKLY PEAR. 
Opuntia humifusa Raf. Med. Bot. 2: 247. 1830. 
Cactus humifusus Raf. Ann. Nat.15. 1820. 
Opuntia mesacantha Raf.; Seringe, Bull. Bot. Gen. 216. 1830. 
Opuntia rafinesquit Engelm. Syn. Cact. 295. 1856. 
Gray, Man. ed.6,197. Chap. Fl. ed.3,171. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 135. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario, southern New England, Minnesota, 
Wisconsin and Missouri to Texas and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Flowers sulphur-yellow, April, May. 
Fruit ripe June, July; pulp purple. Abundant in the limestone hills of the Ten- 
nessee Valley and common in the ary sandy pine barrens of the Lower Pine region 
and Coast plain. Perennial. 
Type locality unknown. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Opuntia opuntia (L.) Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:432. 1896. 
COMMON PRICKLY PEAR. 
Cactus opuntia L. Sp. Pl. 1:468. 1753. 
Opuntia vulgaris Mill. Dict. ed. 8, no. 1. 1768. 
Gray, Man, ed. 6,197. Chap. Fl. 144, ed. 3, 171. 
; Th and Louisianian areas. Southeastern Massachusetts along the coast 
o Florida. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain, Shellbanks. MobileCounty, DauphinIsland. Perennial. 
Type locality: “Hab.in America, Peru, Virginia, nunc in Hispania, Lusitania.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. : 
Opuntia pes-corvi Le Conte; Chap. Fl. 145. 1860. CrowrooTt Cactus.. 
Chap. FI. 145. 
Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida, west to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands on the seashore. Mobile County, 
Dauphin Island, Navy Cove. Flowers rose purplish; April, May. Not frequent. 
Perennial. me 
Type locality: ‘‘ Barren sandy places along the coast, Florida and G. ia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. : hae 
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