COMPOSITAE 323 



CHRYSOMA, Xuttall. 



Chrysoma pauciflosculosa (]\Ix.) Greene. (Apparently no 



common name) 



A weak evergreen shrub, two or three feet tall, with pale 

 green leaves, and small yellow flowers in fall. Economic prop- 

 erties unknown. 



Grows on old dunes and other dry sterile sandy soils where 

 the vegetation is too sparse to carry fire, near the coast. 



15. Dauphin Island, Mobile County (Mohr). Common on top of the 

 bluffs facing Mobile Bay near Daphne, Montrose and Fairhope, also farther 

 south along the bay shore, and on the coast south of Orange Beach, Bald- 

 win County. 



BACCHARIS, Linnaeus. (Grouxdsel Tree, etc.) 

 Baccharis halimifolia, L. 



A tall ragged-looking evergreen shrub, with inconspicuous 

 white flowers in the fall, soon followed by the more conspicuous 

 white pappus. Sometimes cultivated in northern parks. 



Its natural habitat is the edges of salt and brackish marshes, 

 but it often grows in damp weedy places farther inland, in Geor- 

 gia and Florida if not Alabama. 



15. Near Magazine and Point Clear. 



Baccharis angustifolia, Mx. 



Smaller than the preceding, with much narrower leaves. 

 Grows on edges of salt marshes. 



15. Navy Cove, Alobile County (Mohr). Near Oak, Baldwin County. 



BORRICHIA, Adanson. 

 Borrichia frutescens (L.) DC. 



A weak almost unbranched shrub or woody herb, about two 

 feet tall, with few but rather large heads of yellow flowers in 

 summer. 



15. Salt marshes, Mobile and Baldwin Counties (Mohr). 



