800 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA 



Stemmodoutia asperrinia (Sjireug.). 



Buphthalminn asperrimmn Spreng. Neii. Entdeck. 2:140. 1821. Not Wollustonia 

 asperrinia Decsne. Nouv. Auu. Mus. Par. 3 : 414. 1834. Nor ITi'drlia asperrima Bentb. 

 Fl. Austral. 3: 539. 1866. 



Jnomoatepltlitm bnphihalnwides DC. Prodr. 5 : 560. 1836. 



Wedelia buphthalmoides Griseb. Goett. Abh. 7 : 235. 1857. 



Seruneum bitphthalmoides Kuntze. Rev. Gen. PL 1 : 365. 1891. 



WEST INDIES. 



ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile County. Flowers golden yellow; 

 August, September. Persistent on the ballast heaps and adjoining waste places. 

 July. First observed 1884. Perennial. 



Type locality not ascertained. Locality of Anomostcphlum bupkihalmoideB: "Goad*- 

 lupa (Berterof Krauss!), loco dicto Pointe-a-Pitre (Perotte!). " 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mob r. 



BORRICHIA Adans. Fain. PI. 2 : 130. 1763. 



Six species, tropical America. Shrubby or snffruticose. South Atlantic North 

 America, 2. 



Borrichia frutescens (L.) DC. Prodr. 5 :489. 1836. 



. Buplt fhalmiim frutescens L, Sp. PL 2 : 903. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 2:408. Gray, Man. ed. 6,277. Chap. FL 224. Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 265. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 216. 



MEXICO, WEST INDIES. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Seashore of Virginia to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Salt marshes. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flow- 

 ers yellow; August, October. Frequent. Shrubby at the base. Perennial. 

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

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HELIANTHUS L. Sp. PL 2 :904. 1753. 



About 60 species, perennials, chiefly American. Mexico, Central and South 

 America. North America, 40; Atlantic, 23; interior, 8; Pacific, 10. 



Helianthus debilis Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, 7 : 367. 1841 . 



EARLY SUNFLOWER. 



Chap. FL 229. Gray, Syu. FL N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 273. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 217. 

 Louisianian area. Florida to western Louisiana and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Adveutive in cultivated fields. May, 1888; not observed 

 since. Annual. 



Type locality : "The sea-coast of East Florida. (Dr. Baldwin.)" 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helianthus angustifolius L. Sp. PL 2 : 906. 1753. NARROW-LEAF SUNFLOWER. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 415. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 278. Chap. Fl. 229. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 

 273. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 218. 



Carolinian and Lonisianiau areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas, Arkan- 

 sas, southern Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Damp and dry sandy soil, bor- 

 ders of thickets, woods, and fields. Morgan County. Cullman 'County, 800 feet. 

 Autanga, Clarke, and Mobile counties, etc. Kays golden yellow; disk brownish. 

 Common ; most abundant throughout the Coast Pine belt. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helianthus angustifolius nemorosus var. nov. 



Radical and lower cauline leaves from roundish-ovate to broadly lanceolate and 

 acute. Very variable, in one extreme closely approaching H. florid-anus Gray, 1 and 

 in the other connected with the type by intergradiug forms, and hence of doubtful 

 varietal value. 



ALABAMA: Shaded, springy banks. Mobile County,Spriughill. October,November. 

 1 Syn. Fl. N. A. l,pt.2:273. 



