CHICORY FAMILY. 753 



Alabama: Metaniorphiciind Coosa hills. Exposed rocky liillKides. Dekalb County, 

 Meiitoue, 1,()0() feet. Calhonn County. Anniston, SOO feet. 8t. Claii' County, Spring- 

 ville. Talla.])o<)sa County, Dadeville, 900 feet. Flo\v(;rs deep yellow; June, July. 

 Not rare. 



Type locality : " Collected on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, May 21, 1890, by Prof, 

 F. Lamson-8cribner.'" 



Hieracium venosum ii. Sp. PI. 2 :800. i753. K-vitle^nake Weed. 



Ell. Sk. 2:l'(i2. Gray. :\Iau. cd. 6, 299. Cbap. 11. 2,50. (iray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, 

 pt. 1:425. 



Alleghenian and Caiolinian aieas. Ontario 1o Saskatchewan ; southern New Eng- 

 land west to JMiuuesota, Nebraska, aud Montana, south to Arkansas, and along the 

 mountains from Tennessee to Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Dry hillsides. Clay County, near Moseley, banks of 

 Talladega Creek, 1,000 feet (Franklin's place, August 2, 1896). Lee County, Auburn 

 (Baker t|i- Earle). Hare. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. 8urv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hieracium mariauuni Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1572. 1804. Maryland Hawkweed. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, :S00. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 272. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2, pt. 1 : 426. 



Carolinian area. Rhode Island, southern New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. 



Alabama: Metamorphic hills. Dry open cox)8e8. Lee County, Auburn (/>a/rer ()■• 

 Earle). October. 



Type localitj^: " Hab. in America boreali.' 



Hi*rb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hieracium greeiiii Porter &, Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 20 : 120. 1893. 



PiloseUa s/>rtJ/tH/«ia Schultz Bip. Flora, 45 : 439. 1862. Not Hieracium upathiilainm 

 Scheele. 1863. 



Hieracium marianum var. spatliii latum Gray, Svn. Fl. 2, pt. 1 : 4.55. 1886. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 300. 



Carolinian area. Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia. 



Alabama: Metamorphic hills. Lee County, Auburn (/>afccr if- 7ia?'ie). October. 



Type locality: "In dry soil, Tuscarora Mountain, Huntingdon Co. ' * " 

 Two-Top Mountain," Franklin Co., I'enn. *^ * * Mountains of Clinton Co., 

 Penn. - * * Peaks of Otter, Virginia." 



Hieracium gronovii L. 8p. PI. 2 : 802. 1753. Common Hawkweed, 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 263. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 300. Chap. Fl. 250. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2:426. 



Carolinian area. Southern Ontario ; New York west to Missouri and Arkansas, 

 south to the Gulf, from Florida to Louisiana. 



Alabama: Throughout the State. Exposed light soil. Open dry woods. Very 

 variable. In the dry pine barrens of the coast are found persistent forms with the stem 

 leafy to the narrow elongated dense panicle, and the radical le.-ives strongly hirsute 

 with long shaggy hairs (var. Jnrsiitissimiim Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 427). Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia, Peusylvauia," 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



TARAXACUM Haller, Stirp. Helv. 1 : 23. 1768. 



Twenty-two species, perennial lierbs, temperate ICurope, Asia. 



Taraxacum taraxacum (L.) Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 1138. 1880-83. 



Common Dandelion, 



Leontodon iaraxacuni L. Sp. PL 2 : 798. 1753. 



Taraxacum officinale Web. Prim. Fl. Hols. 56. 1780. 



T. (lens-h'onis Desf. Fl. Atl. 2 : 228. 1800. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 250. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 303. Chap. Fl. 252. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 440. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 249. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 439. 



EUKOPE. 



Naturalized nearly over the continent. 



Alabama: Throughout tlie State. Blossoms from February to May, again in 

 October. Common everywhere. Pereunial. 



Economic uses: The root is the "Taraxacum " or "dandelion root" of thi^ United 

 States Pharmacopccia. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europai; pascuis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



15894 48 



