752 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Adopogon dandelion (L.) Kuiitze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1 : 304. 1*91. 1 )WAHK 1 )ANDELION. 



Tragopogon dandelion L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 1111. 1763. 



Krigia dandelion Nutt. Gen. 2 : 127. 1818. 



Cynthia dandelion DC. Prodr. 7 : 89. 1838. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 265. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 298. Chap. Fl. 249.' Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A 1 pt 

 2 : 412. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 247. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Maryland to Florida, west to Texas and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Coast plain. Sparsely diffused. 

 Lauderdale County. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Dallas County, Uniontown 

 (E. A. Smith). Morgan County. Hale County, Gallion. Mobile County. Flowers 

 yellow; April, May; again in October (at Mobile). Not frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SCOLYMUS L. Sp. PI. 2:813. 1753. 

 Three or four species, Mediterranean region. 

 Scolymus grandiflorus Desf. Fl. Atlant. 2 : 240, t. 218. 1800. 



ALABAMA: Adventive from southern Europe. Mobile County, fugitive on ballast. 

 Type locality : " In arvis incultis vulgatissiina " (Northern Africa). 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SERINBA Raf. Fl. Ludov. 149. 1817. 



(APOGON Ell. Sk. 2:267. 1821-24.) 

 One species. 



Serinea oppositifolia (Raf.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 1:364. 1891. 



Krigia oppositifolia Raf. Fl. Ludov. 57. 1817. 



Apogon humilis Ell. Sk. 2 : 267. 1821-24. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 249. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 411. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 

 Herb. 2 : 246. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. South Carolina to Florida and Texas and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Sandy exposed soil. Cultivated and 

 waste places, pastures. Cullman and Tuscaloosa counties. Lee County, Auburn 

 (Baker $ Earle). Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers deep yellow ; March, April. 

 Abundant in the lower country. Annual. 



Type locality not specifically given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PICRIS L. Sp. PI. 2 : 792. 1753. 

 Thirty-five species. 



Picris pauciflora Willd. Sp. PI. 3 : 1557. 1804. 



SOUTHERN EUROPE. 



ALABAMA: Ballast weed. Mobile County, fugitive, collected in 1884; not found 

 since. Annual? 



Type locality: "Hab. in Gallia autttrali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HIERACIUM L. Sp. PI. 2 : 799. 1753. 



Five hundred nominal species, not well defined; perennials of both hemispheres, 

 largely European and northern Asiatic. North America, 24, endemic; Atlantic, 9. 



Hieracium scribneri Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 20, 1. 127. 1897. 



Perennial, somewhat glaucescent, sparingly or diffusely branched above, leafy, 

 somewhat pubescent below with loug spreading hairs; peduncles and pedicels gla- 

 brous or densely glandular. Lowest leaves oblong or oblong spatulate on winged 

 petioles, acute, acuminate at the base, the upper oblanceolate, oblong to linear- 

 lanceolate, sometimes even fiddle-shaped, sessile, acute, with a few scattered spine- lik<; 

 teeth, nearly glabrous; inflorescence more or less corymbose-paniculate; involucre 

 nearly glabrous or glandular; achenes columnar, somewhat constricted under the 

 rim of the summit; pappus not exceeding the involucral bracts. 



"A very well marked species, with much the foliage of H. pan icul alum, but far 

 more nearly the habit and inflorescence of H. venosum, which latter it is like in its 

 vernal flowering." E. L. Greene. PLATK IX. 



Carolinian area. Southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. 



