846 PLANT LIFE IN ALABAMA. 



Lonisianian area. Western Louisiana; Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Sandy pine woods. Mobile County, May, 1901 (Mohr). 

 Local. Jnly. Perennial. 



Clearly distinct. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 

 Rudbeckia chapman! Boynton & Bea<lle, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1 : 14. 1901. 



CHAPMAN'S CONKFLOWEK. 



Perennial, 1| to 3 feet high; radical leaves 8 to 16 inches long (including petiole), 

 broadly ovate-lanceolate, 2| to 4 inches wide, harshly but inconspicuously pubes- 

 cent, 5 or 7 nerved, truncate or cordate at the base, dentate or coarsely crenulate- 

 dentate; cauline leaves ovate-lanceolate, rounded or narrowed at the base, sub- 

 dentate or nearly entire, petioled; stems conspicuously angled, striate, sparingly 

 pubescent or glabrous, branched near the summit; involucre foliaceous, imbricated, 

 glabrate, or with lines of soft hairs on the margin and nerves; rays 12 to 16, about 

 an inch long, 2 or 3 toothed at the apex; disk hemispherical, dark purple; chait'of 

 the receptacle abruptly pointed at the apex and ciliate with a few short hairs; 

 pappus a shallow coroniform border. 



Carolinian area. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. North Alabama (G. R. Vasey}, 1878; no specific 

 locality given. 



Type locality : " Mountains of Georgia (Dr. A. W. Chapman, no locality ; Dr. D. P. 

 Cleaveland, Dalton, Ga.) and Alabama (Dr. G. Vasey [G. K. Vasey ], 1878)." 

 P. 753. After Elephantopus carolinianns insert: 

 Elephantopus violaceus Schultz Bip. Linnaea, 20 : 517. 1847. 



Identification on the authority of C. F. Baker. 



Carolinian area. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. Mobile. October. 



