804 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Verbasina aristata (Ell.) Heller, Cat. N. A. PI. ed. 2, 218. 1900. 



BARE-STEMMED CROWNBKARD. 



HeliantJnts aristatus Ell. Sk. 2 :428. 1821-24. 



Actinomeris nudicaulia Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. 7 : 364. 1841. 



Ferlesina tnidicaulis Gray, Proc. Aui. Acad. 19 : 12. 1883. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 288. Chap. Fl. 233 ; ed. 3, 255. 



Carolinian and Lonisiauian arena. (Georgia and Florida. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower Pine belt. Lee County, Auburn, dry uieta- 

 morphic hills, 860 feet. Mobile County, Grand Bay, sandy open pine ridges. 

 Flowers golden yellow; June, .July. Local and infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Grows in dry sessile soils in the western districts of Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbesina heliaiithoides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 135. 1803. 



SUNFLOWER-LIKE CROWNBEARD. 



Actinomeris helianlhoides Nutt. Gen. 2 : 181. 1818. 



Ell. Sk. 2:413. Gray, Man. ed.6,281. Chap. Fl. 233. Gray, Svu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

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



Carolinian area. Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Arkansas, and from Tennessee south 

 to upper Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Lower hills. Borders of woods and fields. Lauder- 

 dale County, in the barrens. "Bibb County, Pratt's Ferry. July; local and rare. 



Type locality : " Hab. in occidentalibus Alleghanis, territorio Tennassee, et regioue 

 Illinoensi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbesina eiiceliodes (Cav.) Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 288. 1884. 



ENCELIA-LIKE CROWN HEARD. 



Ximine^ia enceMoides Cav. Icon. 2 : 60, 1. 178. 1793. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 630 ; ed. 3, 255. Coulter, Contr. NatTHerb. 2 : 221. Gray, Syu. Fl. 

 N. A. 1. c. 



MEXICO. 



Louisianian area. Southern Florida, Texas, Arizona, and southern Colorado. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Adventive in ballast. Mobile County. Autauga County, 

 Prattville, waste places, adventive from southwestern Texas with wool. Flowers 

 golden yellow; .July, September. A frequent and persistent ballast weed. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Mexico." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Verbesina alternifolia (L.) Britton ; Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, 20 : 485. 1893. 



CHOWNBEARD. 



Coreopsis alttrm folia L. Sp. PI. 2 : 909. 1753. 

 Actinomeris squarrona Nutt. Gen. 2 : 181. 1818. 

 A. alternifolia DC. Prodr. 5 : 575. 1836. 

 Ell. Sk. 2 : 413. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 281. Chap. Fl. 232. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. Western New York to Michigan, Ohio Valley 

 to Missouri, Nebraska, from West Virginia south to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Lower hills. Rich bottom lands, borders of fields 

 and woods. Clay County, Elders, 1,000 leet. Blount County, banks of Mulberry 

 Fork. Flowers yellow. Not frequent. Eight to 10 feet high! 



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



Herb. Mohr. 



COREOPSIS L. Sp. PL 2 : 907. 1753. TICKSEED. 



About 50 species, more or less tropical; Africa, Sandwich Islands, chiefly warmer 

 America. North America, 28; Atlantic, chiefly southern, 23; Lower Souoran (Texano- 

 Mexican),5; Pacific,!. 



Coreopsis gladiata Walt. Fl. Car. 2 : 215. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 444. Chap. Fl. 235. Gray, Syn. Fl.N. A. 1, pt.2:290. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, and Mississippi to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt. Damp grassy pine barrens. Washington County, 

 Yellowpine. Rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Her)). Mohr. 



Coreopsis angustifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 253. 1789. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 443. Chap. Fl. 235. Gray, Syn. PI. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 290. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2: 222. 



Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida, west to Texas. 



