760 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA, 
SCLEROLEPIS Cass. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816: 198. 1816. 
Single species, Kastern North America. 
Sclerolepis uniflora (Walt.) Porter, Mem. Torr, Club, 5:311. 1894. 
ONKE-FLOWERED SCLEROLEPIS, 
Kthulia uniflora Walt. Fl. Car, 195. 1788. 
Sparganophorus verticillatus Michx. Fl, Bor. Am. 2:98. 1803. 
Sclerolepis verticillata Cass. Dict. 48: 155, 1827. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 238, Chap. F1.190. Gray, Syn. FIN. AL 1. pt. 2292. 
Carolinian and Lonisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Coast plain. Wet places. Wileox County 
(S. B. Buckley). Baldwin County, Point Clear. Flowers sky-blue; May. Rare. 
Perennial, 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb, Geol. Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
AGBERATUM IL. Sp. Pl. ed.2,2:1175. 1763. 
About 30 species, tropical regions, mostly American. North Amerien, 3. 
Ageratum conyzoides L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 2:1175. 1763. MEXICAN AGERATUM, 
Ageratum mexicanum Sims, Bot. Mag. 52: 1.2524. 1787. 
Chap. P1189. Gray, Syn. FIN. A, 1, pt. 2:93. Griseb. FI. Brit. W. Ind. 856. 
Cuba to Brazil. Pacific Islands, East Indies, Tropical Africa. 
Louisianian area, Coast of Georgia to Florida. Naturalized. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Escaped trom cultivation, Waste and cultivated places 
near dwellings. Mobile County. Flowers lilac; July to October. Becoming a 
troublesome weedin the gardens. Annual, 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in America.” 
Herb. Geo], Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
EUPATORIUM L. Sp. Pl. 2:836. 17538.) THorovGmworr, 
Four hundred and seventy-five species, perennial herbs, rarely shrubby, temperate 
to tropical regions, chiefly tropical America, United States, Argentina, Asia, Europe, 
North America, 45 or 50; Atlantic, 26; Western Continental, 14; Pacifie, 1. 
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Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam.) Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 5:311. 1894. 
Dog FENNEL, 
Artemisia capillifolia Lam. Eneyel. 1: 267. 1783. 
Kupatorium foenicaloides Walt. Fl. Car. 199. 1788. 
LE, foeniculaceum Willd, Sp. Pl. 3:1750. 1804, 
EL Sk. 2:294. Gray, Man, ed.6, 239. Chap. FL. 196. Gray, Syn. FI. 1, pt. 2:97. 
CuBA. 
Carolinian and Louisianian area. Delaware to Florida and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion to theCoast, Low fields, pastures, open woods. Cull- 
man County, 600 feet aititude. Clay County, Ironaton, 800 feet altitude. Chambers 
County and southward. Flowers white; October, November. When bruised. it: 
emits the odor of fennel. Most abundant in the damp Coast plain. 
Type locality: “On la croit originaire des Indes orientales & dela Chine.” (Mis- 
taken, ) 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
Bupatorium leptophyllum DC. Prodr. 5:176. 1836. 
Stem 24 to 34 feet high, smoothish, round, erect, panicnlately branched; leaves 
undivided, linear, smooth; racemes spiciform, elongated, somewhat secund], 
branched, the terminal branches and branchlets paniculately disposed; tloweriny 
heads 8 to 5 tlowered on short pedicels, involucral seales lanceolate with a nar- 
row white margin. ‘ Habitus inflorescentiae Solidaginis, caeterum EK. foonieulaceo 
affine.” DC. 1. ¢.) 
Louisianian area, South Georgia, Florida to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region, Coast plain. Dry open pine barrens, old sandy 
fields with F. compositifolium, Mobile County, Springhill. October, November, 
Frequent. 
In habit of growth near FH. capillifolium; distinguished at once by the simple 
entire smoothish leaves. 
Type locality: ‘In Georgia eirea Savannah a cl. Herbemont lecta.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
