Lobelia LOBELIACEAE— COMPOSITAE Vernonia 



L. spicata Lam. 



Infrequent, in rich, rocky woods and open sandy or serpentine 

 soil of the Piedmont; rare on the Coastal Plain: Frankford (S), 

 Commons, 15 June 1875 (A). Early June, July. 



Var. campanulata McVaugh. See Rhodora 38, 316. 1936. 



The following collection is cited by McVaugh, 1. c: near 

 Centreville (NC), Commons, 30 June 1866 (A). 



L. infiata L. Indian Tobacco. 



Common in dry open ground of the Piedmont province; infre- 

 quent on the Coastal Plain, in New Castle, Kent (Md.), Queen 

 Anne's and Talbot Counties. Mid-July to mid-Sept. 



L. Canbyi Gray. 



In our range known only from sandy swamps, meadows and 

 ditches at or near Ellendale (S), where it has been collected many 

 times, from 1874 to 1934. Late July to Sept. 



L. Boykinii T. & G. 



Rare; meadows and ditches, Ellendale (S): Canhy, 24 July 1893 

 (D), as L. Nuttallii; ditches along railroad, C. S. Williamson, 9 

 July 1908 and 20 June 1909 (A); Long & Bartram, 6 July 1913 (A), 

 as L. paludosa. 



L. Nuttallii R. & S. 



Frequent in moist sandy ground, dune hollows and ditches, in 

 Sussex, Wicomico, Worcester and northern Accomac Counties, 

 Early July to mid-Sept. 



COMPOSITAE (Composite Family) 

 Vernonia Schreb. Iron-weed. 



V. noveboracensis Willd. 



Common in low ground, Piedmont, and southward on the 

 Coastal Plain at least to Somerset County. Aug., mid-Sept. 



V. glauca (L.) Willd. 



Common in rocky woods of the Piedmont province; less frequent 

 in sandy soil throughout the Coastal Plain. Aug., Sept. 



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