THISTLE FAMILY. 803 



Helianthiis longifolius Pnrsb. F]. 2 : 571. LS14. 



Ell. 8k. 2 : 417. Gniy, Syii. FI. 1, pt. 2: 278. 



Carolinian area. Westoiii (ieorgia. 



Alabama: Mountain iii^iou. Damp rocky glailes. De Kalb County, on Lookout 

 Mountain, De Soto Falls {Herh. Ililtmore), Marsliall County {Herb. BUtmore, 1900). 

 Local and rare. Se]>tenilier, October. 



Type locality: " In the western parts of Georgia. Lyon.'' 



Herb. Geol. Siirv. Herb. Molir. 



Helianthus scliAveinitzii Torr. iSl (iray, Fl. N. A. 2 : S30. 1842. 



ScHWEiNiTz'-s Sunflower. 



Chap. FL 231. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 278. 



Carolinian area. Western North Carolina and middle Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Dry borders of woods. Lee County, Auburn. Cull- 

 man County. September, October; infrequent. 



Type locality: '"Near Salem, North Carolina, SchweinUc .' and in Mecklenburg- 

 County. Mr. M'. a. Curtis!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helianthus glaucus Small, liull. Torr. Club. 25 : 480. 1898. 



Southern' SxMOOtii Suxflowkk. 

 Carolinian area. North Carolina. Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Dry open woods. Cullman County. Two to 3^ 

 feet high. 



"'Perennial, deep green. Stems erect, 9 to 18 dm. tall, widely branching, smooth, 

 glabrous and glaucous; leaves oi)posite; blades somewhat leathery, iirm, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, sharply serrate, very scabrous above, tomentulose beneath, narrowed into 

 short-margined petioles; heads rather small; in^ olucres campanulate, 8 to 10 nun. 

 high; bracts few, lanceolate or oblong with a lanceolate tiji, more or less strongly 

 spreading, white-ciliate; rays yellow, oblong, 1 to l.,5 cm. long, often .5 to 7; disk 

 becoming 1 cm. broad; disk-coiollas 4 nnn. long; segments lanceolate to oblong- 

 lanceolate; disk bracts commonly 3- toothed at the apex, minutely pubescent; achenes 

 3 to 3.5 mm. long, obloug-obovoid, with two slender barbed teeth.'' 



rype locality: " Dunn's Monutaiu, Rowan County, North Carolina, August, 1894; 

 Stone Mountain and vicinity, Georgia, and on Little Stone Mountain, Georgia, Sep- 

 tember, 1894." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



VERBESINA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 901. 1753. 

 (AcTiNOMERLs Nutt. Gen. PL 2 : 181. 1818. ) 



Geuns variously limited; perennials. South America. North America, 9 species; 

 Atlantic, 7. 



Verbesina occidentalis (L.) Walt. Fl. Car. 213. 1788. Wayside Crownbeard. 



Sietjesheckia occidentalis L. Sp. PL 2 : 900. 17.53. 



Verbesina sieqesbeckia Michx. FL Bor. Am. 2 : 134. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2:411. Grav, Man. ed. G, 281. Chap. Fl. 237. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 1, pt. 

 2:287. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. Southern Ohio, Illinois, and Tennessee, south 

 to Florida and Louisiana. 



Alabama : Central Pine l)elt to the Coast plain. Damj) places, borders of thickets, 

 fields, waysides; August, September. Four to 5 feet high; coarse. One of the most 

 abundant wayside weeds of the Coast plain. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbesina virginica L. Sp. PL 2 : 901. 1753. White Crowmseard. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 410. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 281. Chap. FL 238. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 287. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 221. 



Mexico. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, westto Texas and Arkansas. 



Al.\i;ama : (Central Pine region to (loast plain. In rich soil, Ixirdcrs of fields and 

 woods. Montgomery and Mobile counties. Mowers sordid white; September. Six 

 to 8 feet high. Sparsely dlKiised. 



Type locality : "Hab. in \ irginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. .Mohr. 



