700 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



SCLEROLEPIS Cuss. Bull. Soe. Philoin. 1816 : 198. 1810. 



Single species, Eastern North America. 

 Sclerolepis uniflora (Walt.) Porter, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 311. 1894. 



ONE-FLOWERED SCLEKOLEI-IS. 



Ethulia uniflora Walt. Fl. Car. 195. 1788. 



Sparganophorus verticillatus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 98. 1803. 



Sclerolepis verticillata Cass. Diet. 48 : 155. 1827. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 238. Chap. Fl. 190. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 92. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Coast plain. Wet places. Wilcox County 

 (S. B. Buckley). Baldwin County, Point Clear. Flowers sky-blue; May. Rare. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



AG-ERATUM L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 1175. 17f>3. 



About 30 species, tropical regions, mostly American. North America, 3. 



Ageratum conyzoides L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 2 : 1175. 1763. MEXICAN A<;F.i:AirM. 



Ageratum mexicanum Sims, Bot. Mag. 52 : t. 2524. 1787. 



Chap. Fl. 189. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A, 1, pt. 2 :93. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. lud. 350. 



Cuba to Brazil, Pacific Islands, East Indies, Tropical Africa. 



Louisianian area. Coast of Georgia to Florida. Naturali/'.<l. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Escaped from cultivation. Waste and cultivated places 

 near dwellings. Mobile County. Flowers lilac; July to October. Becoming a 

 troublesome weed in the gardens. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



EUPATORIUM L. Sp. PI. 2:836. 1753. THOKOUGHWOKT. 



Four hundred and seventy-five species, perennial herbs, rarely shrubby, temperate 

 to tropical regions, chiefly tropical America, United States, Argentina, Asia, Europe. 

 North America, 45 or 50; Atlantic, 26; Western Continental, 14; Pacific, 1. 



Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam.) Small, Bull.^Torr. Club, 5 : 311. 1894. 



DOG FENNEL. 



Artemisia capillifolia Lam. Eucycl. 1 : 267. 1783. 



Evpatoriwn foeniculoides Walt. Fl. Car. 199. 1788. 



E.foeniculacenm Willd. Sp. PL 3 : 1750. 1804. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 294. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 239. Chap. Fl. 196. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1, pt. 2 : 97. 



CUBA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian area. Delaware to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to the Coast. Low fields, pastures, open woods. Cull- 

 man County, 600 feet altitude. Clay County, Ironaton, 8UO feet altitude. Chambers 

 County and southward. Flowers white; October, November. When bruised, it 

 emits the odor of fennel. Most abundant in the damp Coast plain. 



Type locality: "On la crolt originaire des Indes orientales & do la Chine." (Mis- 

 taken.) 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium leptophyllum DC. Prodr. 5 : 176. 1836. 



Stem 2 to 3 feet high, smoothish, round, erect, paniculately branched; leaves 

 undivided, linear, smooth; racemes spiciform, elongated, somewhat secundlv 

 branched, the terminal branches and branchlets paniculately disposed; flowering 

 heads 3 to 5 flowered on short pedicels, involucral scales lanceolate with a nar- 

 row white margin. "Habitus inflorescentiae Solidaginis, caeterum K. foenieulaceo 

 affine." DC. 1. c.) 



Louisianian area. South Georgia, Florida to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Dry open pine barrens, old sandy 

 fields with E. compositifolium. Mobile County, Springhill. October, November. 

 Frequent. 



In habit of growth near E. capillifolium; distinguished at once by the simple 

 entire smoothish leaves. 



Type locality: "In Georgia circa Savannah a cl. Herbemont lecta." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



