636 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Ludwigia linifolia Poir. Suppl. 3: 513. 1813. FLAX-LEAF LUDWIGIA. 
Chap. Fl. 141. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Border pine-barren ponds. Mobile County. 
Grand Bay. Flowers August 16 (1869); rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Cette plante croit dans l’Amérique septentrionale.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Ludwigia glandulosa Walt. Fl. Car. 88. 1788. 
CYLINDRICAL-FRUITED LUDWIGIA. 
Ludwigia brachycarpa Lam. Encycl. 3: 331. 1789. 
L. cylindrica Ell. 8k, 1: 213. 1818. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 188. Chap. FI). 141. 
Carolinian and Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana 
and Arkansas and southern Llinois. 
ALABAMA: Coosa Valley. Coast plain. Shady swampy places. Etowah County, 
near Gadsden, pine woods, 450 feet. Mobile County, swampy thickets, Dauphinway; 
river swamp on the telegraph road, Grand Bay. Flowers July to September; not 
rare. Bushy, 14 to 2 feet high. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Ludwigia pilosa Walt. Fl. Car. 89. 1788. Hoary Lupwicia. 
Ludwigia mollis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1:90. 1803. - 
Ell. Sk.1: 214. Chap. Fl. 141. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina and Florida to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region 10 Coast plain. Elmore County, Coosada sta- 
tion (Z. A. Smith). Montgomery County, etc. Miry borders of ponds, ditches. 
Flowers July; frequent. Abundant throughout the Lower Pine region and Coast 
plain. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ISNARDIA L. Sp. Pl. 1: 120. 1753. 
Isnardia palustris L. Sp. Pl. 1: 120. 1753. WATER PURSLANE, 
Ludwigia palustris Ell. Sk. 1: 211. 1821, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 188. Chap. Fl. 142. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:113. Griseb. 
Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 271. 
A cosmopolitan weed, Europe, western Asia, East and West Indies, Mexico. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian areas. Nova Scotia to the Saskatchewan, south to the 
Gulf, west to New Mexico. 
ALABAMA: All over the State. In miry soil and stagnant pools, floating and root 
ing, June to October. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Habitat in Galliae, Alsatiae, Russiae, Virginiae fluviis.” 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
EPILOBIUM L. Sp. Pl. 1:347. 1753. 
One hundred and sixty species, cooler and temperate regions of the globe. Europe, 
Asia, North America, about 38. 
Epilobium coloratum Muhl.; Willd. Enum. 1:411. 1809. 
: CoLoRED WILLOW-HERB. 
Epilobium tetragonum Pursh, Fl.1:250. 1814, 
Ell. Sk. 1:445, Gray, Man. ed. 6, 189, Chap. FI. 141. 
Alieghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan and the Rocky 
Mountains; New England west to Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, south from New 
coe West Virginia; Ohio Valley to Missouri and along the mountains to South 
arolina. 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion. Metamorphichills. Cleburne County, Arbacoochee, 
1,200 feet. Flowers rose-pink; July. Rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Pensylvania.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
