THISTLE FAMILY. 761 



Eupatorium compositifoliiim W;iU. Fl. Car. 199. 17SS. i;or(iii Dck; I'kn.xki.. 



Eupatorinm coroiiDpiJ'oliiim Wiild. Sp. PI. 3: 1750. 1804. 



Crysocoma coronopi folia Michx. Fl. IJor. Am. 2:102. 18(>:>. 



Eli. Sk. 2:294. c'liup. Fl. 196. Gray, Svn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 :97. Coulter, Coiitr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 178. 



Carolinian and Lonisianiau areas. 



Alabama: Mountain region to Coast plain. Arid sandy soil. Open copses, pas- 

 tures, old tields, borders of woods. Clay County, Ironaton, 800 feet altitude. Cham- 

 bers and Dallas counties, etc., to Mobile County. Flowers white; October, No\ ember. 

 Most abundant in the Coast Pine belt, coveriug old fields, pastures, etc. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium smithii Greene &, Mohr. 



Stem 3 to 5 feet high, slender, puberulent, terete ; basal and lower leaves unknown, 

 upper caulinc with long linear or lanceolate rachis and a few linear segments, or 

 the floral wholly linear and with or without a few short lobes or teeth; inflorescence 

 an elongated compound thyrsus a foot long or more; heads about 2 lines long; 5 to 

 8 flowered, involucre bracts oblong, obtuse, not mucronate, scarious-margined, 

 indistinctly 3-nerved; style branches long and flliform : paj»pus scabrous. 



A fourth member of the small group as heretofore known consisting only of E. 

 coiuiJOsitifuUinn, E. capiUifoliiim, and L. JeptophfiUniti. All of the latter have narrow 

 panicles of racemed heads, while in E. smiiliii these are glomerate ou short lateral 

 branches, and formed as a whole into a long narrow thyrsus. Pi.atk X. 



Carolinian area. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. (Jhanil>er8 County. Flowers in 

 September. Rare and local. 



Type locality : The only known specimen is from Chamlters County, where it was 

 collected in September, 1874, l)y Dr. F. A. Smith. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium pinnatifidum Ell. Sk. 2 : 295. 1821-24. Pinxatifid Eipatokhm. 



Chap. Fl. 195. ( iray, Syu. Fl. N. A, 1, pt. 2 : 97. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida. 



Alabama: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills. Central prairies. Damp bor- 

 ders of thickets. Lee County, Auburn (F. S. Earle). Chambers County {E. A. 

 Smith). Dallas County, Mount Pleasant {E.A.Smith). F'lowers September; infre- 

 quent and local. 



Type locality: "Grows in damp soils in the middle districts of Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium purpureum L. Sp. Pl. 2:8H8. 1753. 



Ti:UMI'KT-WEKl). PlKPI.K BoNESE T. 



Eupatorium trifoliutiim L. S|). PI. 2 :837. 1753. 



E. ternifolium Ell. Sk. 2 :306. 1<S24. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Gray, ilan. ed. (5, 239, in part. Chap. Fl. ed. 3.213, in part. Gray, 

 Syn. Fl, N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 94. Coulter, Contr. Nat, Herb. 2 : 177. 



AUeghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick to Manit.jl)a; New ICngland 

 west to Dakota and Nebraska, south and east from Colorado to Texas and Florida. 



Alabama: Throughout. Low thickets and shaded baul<;s. Flowers pale pur])le. 

 August. Most frequent in the mountains. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America se]itentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium maculatum L. Amoen. Acad. 4 :288. 1755. 



Spotted Trumpet- weed. Qi'eex or tife Meai>ow. 



Eupatorium purDureum var. maculatum Darl. Fl. Cestr. 453. 



Ell. Sk. 2:308.' Gray, Syn. Fl. 1, pt. 2:96. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:177. 

 Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3 :307. 



AUeghenian to Louisianian area. Distribution as in the last. 



Alabama: Tliroughont. Cotnmon in the lower districts. Fluweis ])iiik to wine- 

 purple. Four to 6 feet high. 



Type locality : '• Hab. in America septentrional i." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium amoenum Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 :514. 1814. Low TI;l7^tPET-WEEr). 



Eupatorium purpureum amoenum Gray, Syn. Fl. 2, pt. 1 : 96. 1884. 



E. maculatum amoenum Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:312. 1894. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 239. Chap. I'l. ed. 3, 213. Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3, 307. 



Carolinian area. New York and North Carolina, New .Jersey, south to Virginia, 

 and aloug the mountains to Georgia. 



