THISTLE FAMILY. 8UV) 



Actiiiospermum angustifolium (Pursh) Torr. &. Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 3811. 1842. 



linphlhaJmnm. an(/ustifolium I'ursli, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 :5B1. 1814. 



Baldiiina mnllitiora Nntt. (Jeu. 2 : 176. 1818. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 447." Chap. Fl. 241. Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2:302. 



Lonisiaiiiau area. Georgia to Florida. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Drifting sauds. Baldwin County, eastern shore Mobile 

 Bay, Point Clear. Flowers yellow ; August, September. Kare. Annual or biennial. 



Type locality : " In Georgia and Florida. Jiaitram." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



MARSHALLIA Schreb. Gen. PI. 810. 1789.' 



Four species, jierennial herbs, South Atlantic North America. 



Marshallia graminifolia ( Walt. ) Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25 : 482. 1898. 



Narkow-leaf Marshallia. 



Athanasia graminifolia Walt. Fl. Car. 201. 1788. 



Marshallia angustifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 520. 1814. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 316. Chap. Fl. 241. Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 303. Boynton & Beadle, 

 Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1:4,/. 9. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida and western Louisiana. 



Alabama: Coast i)lain. Flat damp pine barrens. Mobile County, Bayou La- 

 batre. Flowers pale lilac; August. Not frequeut. Perennial. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Marshallia graminifolia cyananthera Ell. Sk. 2 : 316. 1821-24. 



Lance-leaf Marshallia. 



Boynton & Beadle, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1 : 4, <. 10. 



Louisianian area. Florida, Georgia. 



Alabama: Lower Pine belt. Damp pine woods. Escambia County, Flomaton 

 (Biltmore Herh.). Rare. 



Type locality: " Collected by Dr. Baldwin, near St. Marys, Georgia.'' 



Marshallia obovata (Walt.) Beadle & Boynton, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1 : 5, <. 5. 1901. 



Athanasia oborata Walt. Fl. Car. 201. 1788. 



Persoonia lanceolata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 105. 1803. 



Trattenickia lanctolata Pers. Syn. 2 : 403. 1807. 



Marshallia lanceolata Pursh, 11. Am. Sept. 2 : 519. 1814. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 315. Chap. Fl. 241 ; ed. 3, 260. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 303. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida. 



Alabama: Mountain region and Lower hills. Dry open woods. Cherokee County 

 (C. Mohr). Lee County, Auburn {Baker cf Earle). Flowers pale pink; June. Not 

 fre([uent. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol . Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Marshallia trinervia (Walt.) Porter, Bull. Torr. Club, 5 : 337. 1894. 



Triple-nerved Marshallia. 



Athanasia trinervia \\a\t.¥\.Ca.v. 201, 1788. 



Marshallia latifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 519. 1814. 



Carolinian area. Virginia and North Carolina. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Lower hills. Dry open woods. Cullman County. 

 Bibb County, limestone cliffs, banks of Little Cahaba River. Tuscaloosa County, 

 Windham Springs (7i\ J. ■S'?Hi7/i). Flowers pale pink; July. Infrequent. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Marshallia mohri Beadle & Boynton, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 8, <. .1. 1901. 



Perennial | foot to 2i feet tall; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 6 to 10 inches long, 

 including the petiole, ^ inch lo If inches wide, tho uppermost much reduced in 

 size, obtuse, gradually narrowed into the petiole, which is as long as the blade, 

 the uppermost acute or obtuse, sessile, prominently 3-nerved, glabrous, entire, of a 

 firm texture in age; stem angled, striate, glabrous to near the top, branched above 

 the middle; heads usually several, containing from 30 to 75 or more flowers; involu- 

 cral bracts thin at flowering time, ovate-lauceolate, acute at the apex, with conspic- 

 uous hyaline borders below the middle; corollas slender, pubescent, slightly if at all 



'CD. Beadle and F. E. Boynton, Revision of the Species of Marshallia, Biltmore 

 Bot anical Studies, vol. 1, p. 3. 1901. 



