812 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Coast plain. Wet sandy soil, borders of woods. 

 Cullman County, 800 feet, wet ]>ine woods. South throughout the pine barrens in 

 low wet places. Mobile County. Hays yellow, disk brown. Common. Perennial. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



GAILLARDIA Foug. Mem. Acad. Sci. Par. 1786 : 5, /. 1, S. 1786. 



Ten species, Mexico, North America, chieliy southwestern. Atlantic, 2. 

 Gaillardia lanceolata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 142. 1803. LANCK-LKAK GAILLARDIA. 



Gaillardia bicolor Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 572. 1814. Not Willd. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 449. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 288. Chap. Fl. 238. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 352. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 233. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas, 

 Arkansas, and southern Kansas. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Dry san ly pine woods. Autauga 

 County (E. A. Smith). Common throughout the Pine belt in dry pine barrens. Rays 

 dark yellow, with purplish veins; disk pansy-purple. Variable; in barren exposed 

 soil with the leaves narrowly linear and heads ray less. August, September. Annual. 



Type locality: " Hab. a Carolina ad Floridam, in aridis." 

 - Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Gaillardia lanceolata flavovirens var. nov. 



Stem slightly caueseent, leaves narrowly linear, strongly denticulate; ilowering 

 heads without rays, the disk flowers greenish yellow. Though different in aspect, 

 this variety presents no characters of specific value; the lobes of the corolla are 

 equally tipped with a caudate cusp, and the receptacle destitute of fibrils. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry pine barrens, in loose sand. Baldwin County, between 

 Hon Secour and Perdido Bay. June. Annual. 



Type locality: Baldwin County, Ala. 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Gaillardia pulchella Foug. Mem. Acad. Sci. Par. 1786 : 5. 1786. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2 : 352. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 233. 



MEXICO. 



Louisianian area. Western Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas to Arizona. 



ALABAMA: Prairie region. Coast plain. Dry grassy banks. Dallas County, Marion 

 J unction, borders of fields, with Rudbeckiaamplexicaull*, scarcely indigenous? Mobile 

 County, Pinto Island. April, May. Copious on gravelly made ground; undoubtedly 

 adventive with ballast. Annual. 



Economic uses: Ornamental, frequent in cultivation. 



Type locality: "Mexico." 



Herb. Geol. Srrv. Herb. Mohr. 



ACHILLEA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 898. 1753. YARROW. 



Eighty species, perennial herbs, temperate regions, chietly of the Old World. 

 Achillea millefolium L. Sp. PI. 2 : 899. 1753. MILLKI 01 L YARROW. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 405. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 289. Chap. Fl. 242. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 363. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 239. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 400. 



All over the Northern Hemisphere. From Labrador to Alaska, south to the Gulf; 

 from Florida to Texas and California. 



ALABAMA : Throughout the State. Frequent and perhaps indigenous in the north 

 ern section. Southward rare and most probably introduced. Mobile County, Wheel- 

 erville. The softly villous form ( A. latiala Koch). 



Economic uses : The herb, under the name of "millefoUum," is an obsolete medici- 

 nal plant. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Kuropae pascuis pratisque." 



Herb. Mohr. 



ANTHEMIS L. Sp. PI. 2 : 893. 175S. 



One hundred species, Old World herbs. 

 AnthemiB cotula L. Sp. PI. 2: 894. 1753. MAYWEED. DOG FENNEL. 



Maruta cotula DC. Prodr. 6 : 13. 1837. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 405. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 288. Chap. Fl. 241. Gray, Syu. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 362. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 239. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 40L 



