THISTLE FAMILY. 811 



Helenium parviflorum Nutt. Traiia. Am. Phil. Soc. 7 : 384. 1841. 



SMAI.r.-FL<)\VEKKI> SNEKZK WeED. 



Chap. Fl. 239. Gray, Syii. Fl. N. A. 1, i»t. 2 : 349. 

 Loiiisiaiiiaii area. Georgia. 



Alabama: Central Pine belt. Perry County (./. Donnell Smith). Lee County, 

 Auburn (F. S. EarJe). Local and rare. Perennial. 

 Type locality : "(ieorgia.' 



Helenium autumnale L. Sp. PI. 2 : 88B. 1753. Co.maion Sneeze Wp'.ed. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 401. Gray, Man. ed. 6. 287 Chap. Fl. 239. Gray, Svn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 

 349. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 232. Wats. Hot. Calif. 1 : 393. 



AUegheuiaii to Louisianian area. Quebec and Ontario to the Pacific; from New 

 York west to Minnesota; Ohio Valley to Missouri, Arkansas, Arizona, and Nevada; 

 from Florida to Texas. 



Alabama: Gver the State. Low banks, borders of ditches, etc. August to Octo- 

 ber. Common. Perennial. 



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



Herb. Gcol. Snrv. Herb. Moiir. 



Helenium autumnale pubescens (Ait.) Brittou, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 339. 1894. 



Helenium pnbescens Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 227. 1789. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Damp thickets. Mobile County. Flowers September; 

 not infrequent. Three to 4 feet high, closely pubescent, leaves ovate to ovate 

 lanceolate, obtuse, crowded on the stem up to the mauy-flowered corymb, strongly 

 decurrent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Native of North America." 



Herb. Gcol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 



Helenium integrifolium (M. A. Curtis). Curtis's Helenium. 



Leptopoda integrifoliaM. k.Qwxi'x^; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2:387. 1842. 



L. bri'iifoUa vur. fj. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 387. 1842. 



Helenium curtisii (4rav, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 350. 1884. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. 1. c. Chai.. Fl. ed. 3, 263. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina. 



Alabama : Coast plain. Low wet pine barrens, swampy banks of streams and 

 margins of ponds. Mobile County, banks of Deer Creek and Fowl River. Kays 

 golden yellow, drooping; April, May. Not freiiueut. Perennial. (Jrowiug Avith 

 H. hrevifolium and easily confouude<l with stouter forms of that species, from which 

 it is readily distinguished by the shining silvery blunt scales of the pappus. 



Type locality : "Raleigh, N. Carolina, Mr. Curtis!^' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helenium nuttallii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9 : 204. 1874. Nuttall's Helenium. 



Leptopoda helenium Nutt. (4en. 2 : 174. 1818. 



L. rfecurrcHs McBride; Ell. Sk. 2 :44fi. 1821-24. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 240. (Jrny, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, i)t. 2 : 350. 



Louisianian area. South Carolini to Florida and Louisiana. 



Alabajia: Coast plain. Low damp pine barrens, borders of ponds and ditches. 

 Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers yellow; April, May. Not infreciuent. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality : " South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helenium vernale Walt. Fl. Car. 210. 1788. Vernal Helenium. 



Leptopoda puherula McBride ; Ell. Sk. 2 : 445. 1821-24. Not H. puberulnm 1 )C. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 240. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 350. 



Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Low banks along pine-barren 

 streams. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County. Not common. Peren- 

 nial. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helenium brevifolium (Nutt.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9 : 205. 1874. 



Short leaf Helenium. 



Leptopoda brerifolia Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, 7 : 372. 1841. 



Chap. Fl. 240. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 351. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



