74 . PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Among the largely predominating Compositae tall rosinweeds and 
coarse sunflowers are conspicuous, particularly the former, which 
present a number of types rarely or not at all observed in the State 
outside of this subdivision; for example, S//phéum mohrii and WN. 
gates’, both known from Cullman County; 8. ¢r/foliatum, ranging 
from the plains of the Ohio Valley to the Central Prairie region: 8. 
luevigatum, Helianthus sehweinit2//, and FT. glaucus, from the lower 
mountains of South Carolina and Georgia, and S. compositum, abund- 
ant throughout the region. The following are frequent in dry thin 
soils all over the Mountain region, some extending all over the State: 
Helianthus atrorubens. 
Helianthus hirsutus. 
Helianthus microcephalus. 
Helianthus divaricatus. 
Heliopsis helianthoides. 
Parthenium integrifolium, 
Sericocarpus astervides, 
Aster divaricatus, 
Eupatorium sessilifolium. 
Solidago caesia.! 
Solidago erect. 
Chrysopsis mariana! 
Brauneria purpurea. 
Rudbechia hirta' 
Rudbeckia spathulata. 
Coreopsis grandiflora. | 
Coreopsis pubescens. 
Coreopsis auriculata.! 
Carduus virginicus. 
Andropogon virginicus.| 
Lactuca hirsuta, 
Lactuca sagittaefolia,! 
Nabalus fraseri.? 
Lechea racemutlosa, 
Lechea leggettii, 
Koellia pycncathemoides, 
Blephilia ciliata, 
Monarda_fistulose, 
Monarda bradburiana. 
Dasystoma virginica! 
Gerardia tenuifolia.! 
Physalisvirgiuiaua. 
Physalis pube SCOUS, 
Physalis prutmosa. 
Sabbatia boykinis, 
Thasprnn aureum iripotiatiuin} 
Ovalis recurva,! 
Tragia urticacfolia,' 
Metbomia (many species). 
Lespedeza (Many species). 
View caroliniana’ and buttalo clover, Trifold reflecum, ave tre- 
quent on these table-lands, and Lathyrus venosis in Alabama is con- 
fined to them. 
Strictly mesophile herbaceous plant associations. Kerns abound in 
the shade of the forests. 
Adiantum pedatum, 
Aspleninim platyneuron 
Phegoplteris hevagonoptera, 
Botrychium virginvicums 
Characteristic species are: 
Botrychitun obliquan,' 
Dryopteris noveboracensis, 
Dryopteris imarginata, 
Dryopteris acrostichoides. | 
lsplenium angustifol/um, which is most frequent in the Ohio valley, 
occurs very rarely. 
Of grasses and sedges Muhlenhbergia diffusa forms 
dense plots, and the following prefer the shade of woods: 
Brachyelytrum erectum. 
Festuca wiutans. 
Festuca shortii. 
Poa sylvestris. 
Poa autumnatis.! 
Carex laxiflora.' 
Yop yt a : way, a 
Carex laxiflora varians. 
Carex laxiflora patulifolia, 
‘Occurs also in the Louisianian area, 
*Nabalus Hook., as a strictly American genus, has been reinstated, differing in 
habits of growth and distribution and essential morphological characters from Pre- 
nanthes, with which it was connected by later authors, but which is exclusively con- 
fined to Europe. 
