746 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion. Exposedrocky hillsides, Northern Alabama (Buckley). 
Flowers brownish yellow; July. Rare. Low shrub. 
Type locality: ‘““Mountains of North Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Diervilla rivularis Gattinger, Bot. Gaz.13:191. 1888. 
Shrub 2 to 5 feet high. Branchlets terete; leaves subsessile, ovate or oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, whitish below, all parts hirsutely pubescent; cymes often 
numerous, 3 to 6 flowered; corolla slightly bilabiate, the upper three divisions in 
close contact, the lower more spreading; calyx lobes slender, lanceolate-subulate, 
Flowers larger and handsomer than in J. sessilifolia. 
Carolinian area. ‘Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Damp rocks. Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 
Desoto Falls, near Mentone. Flowers July; yellow. 
In our specimens the flowers are smaller than in PD. sessilifolia, the cymes densely 
tlowered, and, like the fruit, viscid-pubescent. 
Type locality : ‘‘On the banks of ‘ Lula Falls,’ Lookout Mountain, « few miles across 
the Tennessee line in Georgia.” 
VALERIANACEAE, Valerian Family. 
VALERIANELLA Pollich, Hist. Pl. Pal. 1:29. 1776. 
(Frpia Gaert. Fruct. 2:36. 1788.) 
About 50 species, temperate Europe. North America, 15. 
Valerianella radiata (L.) Dufr. Hist. Val.57. 1811. WiLp LAMB SaLaD. 
Valerianella locusta var. radiata L. Sp. Pl.1:34. 1753. 
Fedia radiata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1:18. 1803. 
Ell. Sk.1:42. Gray, Man. ed. 6,229. Chap. Fl. 184. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 
2:45. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 164. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Pennsylvania to Michigan, south to Florida, 
west to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. In low damp ground, fields, waysides. Cullman 
County. Tuscaloosa County (4. A. Smith). Lee County, Auburn. Mobile County. 
Flowers white; March, April. Frequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Marilandiae arvis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
DIPSACEAE. Teasel Family. 
DIPSACUS L. Sp. Pl. 1:97. 1753. 
Twelve species, warmer temperate regions, Europe, chiefly Mediterranean. 
Dipsacus sylvestris Huds. Fl. Ang]. 49. 1762. WILD TEASEL. 
EuRopr. 
Adventive. Sparingly naturalized in the Atlantic States. 
ALABAMA: Coast region, on ballast. Mobile County. June; infrequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘“ Hab. in incultis frequens.” 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
CUCURBITACEAE. Cucumber Family. 
CUCUMIS L. Sp. Pl. 2:1010. 1753. 
Twenty-six species, warmer regions. 
Cucumis colocynthis L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 2: 1435. 1763. CoLocyntTH. 
Adventive from Asia, Africa, southern Europe. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Collected with seeds fully matured October, 1883 
and 1884, A coarse creeping annual. 
Economic uses: The fruit is the “Colocynthis” of the United States Pharmaco- 
poia. 
Type locality not given. 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
