THISTLE FAMILY. 761 



Eupatorium compositifolium Walt. Fl. Car. 199. 1788. ROUGH DOG FENNEL. 



Eupatorium coronopifolium Wiild. Sp. PL 3 : 1750. 1804. 



Crysocoma coronopifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 102. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 294. Chap. FL 196. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 97. Coulter, Coiitr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 178. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Coast plain. Arid sandy soil. Open copses, pas- 

 tures, old fields, borders of woods. Clay County, Ironaton, 800 feet altitude. Cham- 

 bers and Dallas counties, etc., to Mobile County. Flowers white ; October, November. 

 Most abundant in the Coast Pine belt, covering old fields, pastures, etc. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium smithii Greene & Mohr. 



Stem 3 to 5 feet high, slender, puberulent, terete ; basal and lower leaves unknown, 

 upper cauline with long linear or lanceolate rachis and a few linear segments, or 

 the floral wholly linear and with or without a few short lobes or teeth ; inflorescence 

 an elongated compound thyrsus a foot long or more ; heads about 2 lines long ; 5 to 

 8 flowered, involucre bracts oblong, obtuse, not mncronate, scarious- margined, 

 indistinctly 3-nerved; style branches long and filiform ; pappus scabrous. 



A fourth member of the small group as heretofore known consisting only of E. 

 compositifolium, E. capillifolium, and L. leptopkyllum. All of the latter have narrow 

 panicles of racemed heads, while in E. smithii these are glomerate on short lateral 

 branches, and formed as a whole into a long narrow thyrsus. PLATE X. 



Carolinian area. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. Chambers County. Flowers in 

 September. Rare and local. 



Type locality: The only known specimen is from Chambers County, where it was 

 collected in September, 1874, by Dr. E. A. Smith. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium pimiatifidum Ell. Sk. 2 : 295. 1821-24. PINNATIFID EUPATORIUM. 



Chap. Fl. 195. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 97. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills. Central prairies. Damp bor- 

 ders of thickets. Lee County, Auburn (F. S. Earle). Chambers County (E. A. 

 Smith). Dallas County, Mount Pleasant (E. A. Smith). Flowers September; infre- 

 quent and local. 



Type locality : "Grows in damp soils in the middle districts of Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium purpureum L. Sp. PL 2:838. 1753. 



TRUMPET-WETCD. PURPLB BOXESET. 



Eupatorium trifoliatum L. Sp. PL 2 : 837. 1753. 



E. ternifolium Ell. Sk. 2 : 306. 1824. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 239, in part. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 213, in part. Gray, 

 Syn. FL N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 94. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 177. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick to Manitoba; New England 

 west to Dakota and Nebraska, south and east from Colorado to Texas and Florida. 



ALABAMA: Throughout. Low thickets and shaded banks. Flowers pale purple. 

 August. Most frequent in the mountains. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America septentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium maculatum L. Amoen. Acad. 4 :288. 1755. 



SPOTTED TRUMPET- WEED. QUEEN OF THE MEADOW. 



Eupatorium purvureum var. maculatum Darl. Fl. Cestr. 453. 



Ell. Sk. 2:308." Gray, Syn. Fl. 1, pt. 2:96. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:177. 

 Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3: 307. 



Allegheiiiau to Louisianiau area. Distribution as in the last. 



ALABAMA: Throughout. Common in the lower districts. Flowers pink to wine- 

 purple. Four to 6 feet high. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America septentrionali.'' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eupatorium amoenum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 :514. 1814. Low TRUMPET-WEED. 



Eupatorium purpureum amoenum Gray, Syn. Fl. 2, pt. 1 : 96. 1884. 



E. maculatum amoenum Brittou, Mein. Torr. Club, 5 : 312. 1894. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 239. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 213. Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3, 307. 



Carolinian area. New York and North Carolina, New Jersey, south to Virginia, 

 and aloug the mountains to Georgia. 



