786 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain, Low swampy banks of Mobile River, August. The sole 
locality. 
Type locality: “ Hab. in maritimis paludosis Pennsylvaniae et Carolinae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
More material is needed to define with absolute accuracy the species enumerated 
above of this extensive and difficult genus, particularly of the willow-leaf group 
(Vulgares), which is but seantily represented in our collections Of the 101 species 
and varieties, contined to the region east of the Mississippi River and the adjacent 
territory to the verge of the treeless plains, 26 species with 1] well marked varieties 
have been recognized in Alabama, Three species are peculiar to the Louisianian 
area and most frequent in the Coast plain and Maritime Pine belt, extending from 
Texas to North Carolina and scarcely straying northward beyond the southern 
border of eastern Virginia. These are Aster purpuratus, A. erilis, A.adnatus, the last 
not extending west of the Mississippi River. Contined to the same area are the 
varieties—Asler patens tenuicaulis, 1. dumosus coridifolivs, and A. dumosus subulacpoltus. 
BRIGERON L. Ap, P1l.2:868. 1750. 
Fully 150 species of both hemispheres, chietly American, a small nminber of South 
Afriea. Australia, and the Old World. North America, 70 to 75; Atlantic, 1s. 
Brigeron annuus (1.) Pers. Svn.2:451. 1807, DAISY. SWEET SCABIOUS, 
Aster annuus L.Sp. PL 22875, 1758, 
Eriyeron heterophyllus Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 321956, 1804. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,265. Chap. Pl. Suppl. 627; ed.3, 226. Gray. svn. PLON. A. 1, pt. 
27218. 
CENTRAL EUROPE, INTRODUCED, 
Alleghenian to Lonisianian area. Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec; New 
England west to Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, California, south to the Gulf, from 
Florida to Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Scattered. Most frequent in the Central Prairie 
region in pastures and old fields. Mobile County, in damp ground, waste places, 
borders of ditches, waysides. Flowers white, often tinged with purple; June. July; 
appearing on the coast, as if introduced. 
Type locality: ‘Hah. in Canada,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb, Mohr. 
Erigeron ramosus (Walt.) B.S. P. Prel, Cat, N.Y. 27. 1888, Daisy PLEALANE. 
Doronicum ramosum Walt. Pl Car. 205, 178s. 
Erigeron strigosus Muhl.; Willd. Sp. P1.3:1956, 1804, 
EM. Sk.2:394. Gray. Man. ed.6, 265, Chap, FL. 206. Gray, Syn. FIN. A. 1, pt. 2: 
219. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:199, Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 0381. 
Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Ontario to Manitoba; south to the Gulf of 
Mexico, from Florida to Texas; west from the Atlantic to Minnesota, Nebraska, 
Montana, and the Pacilic. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Dry, exposed ground. Abundant in fields, worn-out 
grass lands, pastures, Flowers white; May, July. Biennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Erigeron ramosus beyrichii (Fisch. & Mey.) Smith & Pounds, Bot. Sury. Nebr. 2: 
11. 1893. 
Erigeron strigosus beyrichii Gray, Syn. PLN. ALI, pt. 2: 219, 1884. 
Stenactis beyrichti Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Petrop, 5:27. 188%. 
Gray, Syn. FIN, A. lc. 
Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, and Carolina, 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Wooded hills on limestone benches. Lee County, 
Auburn (Baker §° Farle, 254). Franklin County, Russellville, Cedar woods of 
Locust Dell farm, Copious. Flowers white; June. Biennial. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Erigeron pulchellus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:124. 1803. 
LILAC-FLOWERED DAIsy FLEABANE. 
Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI.3: 1958. 1804. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 266. Chap. Fl. 206.) Gray, Syn. PLN. A. 1. pt. 2: 276. 
Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Ontario to Hudson Bay and Manitoba: New 
England west to Minnesota: south from New Jersey to South Carolina, Tennessee, 
western Louisiana, aud Texas, 
