THISTLE FAMILY. 819 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills and Central Prairie region. Pastures, waste places, 
Montgomery County, copious, Lee County, Auburn, perfectly naturalized. Flowers 
white; April. Annual? 
Type locality: ‘ Hab. in Chio, Lemno, Hispania ad versuras agrorum.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CENTAUREA L. Sp. Pl. 2: 909. 1753. CENTAUREA, 
About 350 species, Old World, European Asia. 
Centaurea calcitrapa L. Sp. Pl.2:917. 1753. STAR ‘THISTLE. 
Gray, Man, ed. 6,297.) Gray, Syn. FILN. A. 1, pt. 2: 406. 
EUROPE. 
Adventive in seaports from New York southward. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile County, Flowers red; August. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Helvetia, Anglia, et Europa australiori secus vias.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Centaurea melitensis L. Sp. P1.2:917. 1753. LOMBARDY STAR THISTLE, 
Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 420. 
MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE. 
Adventive in California. 
ALABAMA: Fugitiveon ballast. Mobile County. Flowers yellowish; June. 
Type locality: ‘“ Hab. in Melita.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
THYRSANTHEMA Neck. Elem. 1:6. 1790. 
(CHAPTALIA Vent. Jard. Cels. 4.07. 1800.) 
Eight species, warmer America. South Atlantic North America, 1, 
Thyrsanthema semiflosculare (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 369. 1891, 
VERNAL CHAPTALIA, 
Perdicium semiflosculare Walt. Fl. Car, 204. 1788. 
Tussilago integrifolia Michx. F]. Bor. Am, 2:121. 1808. 
Chaptalia tomentosa Vent. Jard. Cels. t=. 62. 1800. 
C. integrifolia Nutt. Gen, 182. 1818. 
Ell. Sk.2:459, Chap. Fl. 248. Gray, Syn. FIN. A.1, pt.2: 408. Coulter, Contr. 
Nat. Herb. 2: 245. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Flat damp pine barrens. Mobile 
and Baldwin counties. Flowers white, purple tinged; February, March. Common. 
Perennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
