THISTLE FAMILY. 803 



Helianthus loiigifolius Pursh. FL 2 : 571. 1814. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 417. Gray, Sy n. Fl. 1, pt. 2 : 278. 



Carolinian area. Western Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain ivgion. Damp rocky glades. De Kalb County, on Lookout 

 Mountain, De Soto Falls (Herb. Hiltmore), Marshall County (Herb. Biltmore, 1900). 

 Local and rare. September, October. 



Type locality: "In the western parts of Georgia. Lyon." 



Herl). Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helianthus schweinitzii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 330. 1842. 



SCHWEINITZ'S SUNFLOWER. 



Chap. Fl. 231. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 278. 



Carolinian area, Western North Carolina and middle Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry borders of woods. Lee County, Auburn. Cull- 

 man County. September, October: infrequent. 



Type locality: ''Near Salem, North Carolina, Schweinitz ! and in Mecklenburg 

 County, Mr. M*. A. Curtis!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Helianthus glaucus Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25 : 480. 1898. 



SOUTHERN SMOOTH SUXFLOWKR. 



Carolinian area. North Carolina, Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry open woods. Cullman County. Two to 3 

 feet high. 



'Perennial, deep green. Stems erect, 9 to 18 dm. tall, widely branching, smooth, 

 glabrous and glaucous; leaves opposite; blades somewhat leathery, firm, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, sharply serrate, very scabrous above, tomentulose beneath, narrowed into 

 short-margined petioles; hea^ls rather small; involucres campanulate, 8 to 10 nun. 

 high; bracts few, lanceolate or oblong with a lanceolate tip, more or less strongly 

 spreading, white ciliate; rays yellow, oblong, 1 to 1J5 cm. long, often 5 to 7; disk 

 becoming 1 cm. broad; disk-corollas 4 mm. long; segments lanceolate to oblong- 

 lanceolate ; disk bracts commonly 3- toothed at the npex, minutely pubescent ; achenes 

 3 to 3.5 mm. long, obloug-obovoid, with two slender barbed teeth." 



Type locality: " Dunn's Mountain, Rowan County, North Carolina, August, 1894; 

 Stone Mountain and vicinity, Georgia, and on Little Stone Mountain, Georgia, Sep- 

 tember, 1894." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



VERBESINA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 901. 1753. 

 (ACTINOMERIS Nutt. Gen. PL 2 : 181. 1818.) 



Genus variously limited; perennials. South America. North America, 9 species; 

 Atlantic, 7. 

 Verbesina occidentalis (L.) Walt. Fl. Car. 213. 1788. WAYSIDE CROWNBEAKD. 



Sieyeabeckia occidentalis L. Sp. PI. 2 : 900. 1753. 



Verbesina sieyesbeckia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 134. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 411. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 281. Chap. Fl. 237. Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2:287. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. Southern Ohio, Illinois, and Tennessee, south 

 to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Damp places, borders of thickets, 

 fields, waysides; August, September. Four to 5 feet high; coarse. One of the most 

 abundant wayside weeds of the Coast plain. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbesina virginica L. Sp. PL 2 : 901. 1753. WHITE CROWNBEAKD. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 410. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 281. Chap. Fl. 238. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 :.287. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 221. 



MEXICO. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine region to Coast plain. In rich soil, borders of fields and 

 woods. Montgomery and Mobile counties. Flowers sordid white; September. Six 

 to 8 teet high. Sparsely di [fused. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



