846 PLANT LIFE IN ALABAMA. 
Louisianian area. Western Louisiana; Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Sandy pine woods, Mobile County, May, 1901 (Mohr), 
Local. July. Perennial. 
Clearly distinct. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
Rudbeckia chapmani Boynton & Beadle, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1:14. 1901. 
CHAPMAN’S CONEFLOWER, 
Perennial, 14 to 3 feet high; radical leaves & to 16 inches long (including petiole), 
broadly ovate-lanceolate, 24 to 4 inches wide, harshly but inconspicuously pubes- 
cent, 5 or 7 nerved, truncate or cordate at the base, dentate or coarsely crenulate- 
dentate; cauline leaves ovate-lanceolate, rounded or narrowed at the base, sub- 
dentate or nearly entire, petioled; stems conspicnously angled, striate, sparingly 
pubescent or glabrous, branched near the summit; involucre foliaceous, imbricated, 
glabrate, or with lines of soft hairs on the margin and nerves; rays 12 to 16, about 
an inch long, 2 or 3 toothed at the apex; disk hemispherical, dark purple; chaff of 
the receptacle abruptly pointed at the apex and ciliate with a few short hairs; 
pappus a shallow coroniform border. 
Carolinian area. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. North Alabama (G@. 2. Vasey), 1878; no specific 
locality given. 
Type locality: ‘Mountains of Georgia (Dr. A. W. Chapman, no locality; Dr. D. P. 
Cleaveland, Dalton, Ga.) and Alabama (Dr. G. Vasey [G. R. Vasey ?], 1878).” 
P. 753. After Klephantopus carolinianus insert: 
Blephantopus violaceus Schultz Bip. Linnaea, 20 :517. 1847. 
Identification on the authority of C, fF. Baker, 
Carolinian area. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Mobile. October. 
