800 I'LAXr LIFE CF ALABAMA 



Stemmodontia aspeirima ( Simnu;.). 



HxplitlKiliiiiim iin2)firi)ninii Spreiin'. Ncii. Kutdct'U. 2:11". ISiil. Not li'oll<tsloni(i 

 axpeir'niia Decsne. Nduv. Aiiu. Miis. I'ai'. 3 : 111. LSol. Nor U'ldrrKi (inperrinia Hciitli. 

 Fl. Austral. 3 :5:5m. \HM. 



Jnoiiio-iliphiinii hiij)hlh(ihiioiil<s I )C. IModr. 5 : -MiO. 1S3(). 



Wedtlid hiti>litli(thiii)i(h:s Gri.sob. Gortt. Abli. 7 : 1'3.'). 1S57. 



Seriiutiim buplithaliiniidcs Kuut/.e._ Kfv.Cieu. I'l. 1 : l!()5. 18'.tl. 



Wi:sr Indies. 



Ai.AitA.M.\: Adveiitive with ballast. Mobile County. Fluwcrs golden yt-llovv; 

 Anniist, .Sei)teniber. I'ersisteut ou the ballast heaps and adjoining; waste, phucs. 

 July. First observed 1884. rereuuial. 



Type locality not ascertained. Locality o{ Jnomonlejjhium huphlhaJtiuiidcs: "(Jnada- 

 lupa (nertero! Krauss!), loco dicto Pointe-a-Pitre (I'erottel). " 



Hcib. ( ;eol. Surv. Herb. Mobr. 



BpRRICHIA Adans. Fani. IM. 2 : i:;ii. 17118. 



Six species, tropical America. Shrubby ^>r sult'ruticose. South Atlantic North 

 America, 2. 



Borrichia frutescens (L.) DC. i'rodr. 5 :489. 183<>. 



. ntiplilhuhninn f'riiteiicens L. Sp. PI. 2 : 903. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 108". Gray, Mau. cd. t). 277. Chap. FL 224. (irav, Svu. Fl. N. A. 1. pt. 

 2 : 2(i5. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 216. 



Mkxico, West Indiks. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Seashore of Vir<;inia to Florida and Texas. 



Alabama: Littoral region. Salt marshes. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flow- 

 ers yellow; -Vugust, October. Fretiuent. Shrubby at the base. Perennial. 

 Ty))e locality : ■' Hab. in .laniaica, Virginia." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 



HELIANTHUS L. Sp. PI. 2 :904. 1753. 



About (50 species, perennials, chiedy American. Mexico, Central and South 

 America. North America, 40; Atlantic, 23; interior, 8; Pacific, 10. 



Helianthus debilis Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, 7 : 367. 1841. 



Early Sl'nklower. 

 Chap. Fl. 22i). Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 :273. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 217. 

 Louisianian area. Florida to western Louisiana and Texas. 



Alabaaia: Coast plain. Adventive in cultivated fields. May, 1888; not observed 

 since. Annual. 

 Type locality : '"The sea-coast of East Florida. fDr. l^aldwin. V 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helianthus angustifolius L. .Sp. PI. 2 : 906. 1753. Nahrow-lkaf Sinklowek. 



EU. Sk. 2 : 1 15. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 278. Chap. Fl. 229. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 

 273. Coulter, Coutr. Xat. Herb. 2 : 218. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New .Jersey to Florida, west to Texas, Arkan- 

 sas, southern .Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Damp and dry sandy soil, bor- 

 ders of thickets, woods, and fields. Morgan County. Cullman County, 800 feet. 

 Autauga, Clarke, and Mobile counties, etc. Rays golden yellow; disk brownish. 

 Common; most abundant throughout the Coast Pine belt. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helianthus aiigustifolius nemorosus var. nov. 



Padical and lower canliue leaves from roundish-ovate to broadly lanceolate and 

 acute. Very variable, in one extreme closely approaching H. jloridanun Gray,' and 

 in the other connected with the type by intergrading forms, and hence of doubtful 

 varietal value. 



Alabama: Shaded, springy banks. Mobile CoTinty,Springhill. October,Noyember. 

 ■Syn. FL N.A.I, pt. 2: 273. 



