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ALABAMA: Metamorphic and Coosa bills. Exposed rocky hillsides. Dek alb County, 

 Mciitoiie, 1,600 feet. Calhoun County, Anniston, 800 feet. tit. Clair County, Spring- 

 ville. Tallapoosa County, Dadeville, 900 feet. Flowers deep yellow ; June, July. 

 Not rare. 



Type locality : " Collected on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, May 21, 1890, by Prof.' 

 F. Lainson-Scribiier." 



Hieracium veiiosum L. Sp. PI. 2 : 800. 1753. RATTLESNAKE WEKD. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 262. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 299. Chap. Fl. 250. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, 

 pt. 1 : 425. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario to Saskatchewan ; southern New Eng- 

 land west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Montana, south to Arkansas, and along the 

 mountains from Tennessee to Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Dry hillsides. Clay County, near Moseley, banks of 

 Talladega Creek, 1,000 feet (Franklin's place, August 2, 1896). Lee County, Auburn 

 (Baker tf Earle). Rare. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hieracium mariaiium Willd. Sp. PL 3 : 1572. 1804. MARYLAND HAWKWEED. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 300. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 272. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2, pt. 1 : 426. 



Carolinian area. Rhode Island, southern New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. 



ALABAMA: Metainorphic hills. Dry open copses. Lee County, Auburn (Baiter $ 

 /,'/ la}. October. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America boreali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hieracium greenii Porter & Brittou, Bull. Torr. Club, 20 : 120. 1893. 



Pilosella spatliulata Schultz Bip. Flora, 45:439. 1862. Not Hieracium upathulatum 

 Scbeele. 1863. 



Hieracium marianum var. spathulatum Gray, Syn. Fl. 2, pt. 1 : 455. 1886. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 300. 



Carolinian area. Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia. 



ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Lee County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle). October. 



Type locality: "In dry soil, Tuscarora Mountain, Huntingdon Co. 

 Two-Top Mountain," Franklin Co., I'enn. * * * Mountains of Clinton Co., 

 Penn. Peaks of Otter, Virginia." 



Hieracium gronovii L. Sp. PI. 2 : 802. 1753. COMMON HAWKWEED. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 263. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 300. Chap. Fl. 250. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 426. 



Carolinian area. Southern Ontario; New York west to Missouri and Arkansas, 

 south to the Gulf, from Florida to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Throughout the State. Exposed light soil. Open dry woods. Very 

 variable. In the dry pine barrens of the coast are found persistent forms with the stem 

 leafy to the narrow elongated dense panicle, and the radical leaves strongly hirsute 

 with long shaggy hairs (var. hirsutisaimum Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 427). Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia, Peusylvania." 



Herb. Gecl. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



TARAXACUM Haller, Stirp. Helv. 1 : 23. 1768. 



Twenty-two species, perennial herbs, temperate Europe, Asia. 



Taraxacum taraxacum (L.) Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 1138. 1880-83. 



COMMON DANDELION. 



Leontodon taraxacum L. Sp. PI. 2 : 798. 1753. 



Taraxacum officinale Web. Prim. Fl. Hols. 56. 1780. 



T. dens-leonis Desf. Fl. Atl. 2 : 228. 1800. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 250. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 303. Chap. Fl. 252. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 440. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 249. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 439. 



EUROPE. 



Naturalized nearly over the continent. 



ALABAMA: Throughout the State. Blossoms from February to May, again in 

 October. Common everywhere. Perennial. 



Economic uses: The root is the "Taraxacum" or "dandelion root" of the United 

 States Pharmacopeia. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Enropae pascuis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



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