136 HARPER 



GAILLARDIA Foug., Mem. Acad. Sci. Par. 1786:5.^/. 1,2. 1786. 

 G. lanceolata Mx., Fl. 2:142. 1803. 



Dry pine-barrens, sand-hills, etc. ; not common, tattnall, 



MONTGOMERY, COLQUITT. Fl. June-Sept. 



South Carolina to Florida and Texas in the coastal plain, also 

 inland to Kansas. 



LEPTOPODA Nutt., Gen. 2:174. 1818. 

 L. Helenium Nutt., I.e. 



L. decurrens Macbride; Ell., Sk. 2 :446. 1823. 



Moist pine-barrens and shallow ponds, screven, bulloch 



(2167), EMANUEL, TATTNALL, MONTGOMERY, COFFEE, WILCOX, 



irwin, berrien, and perhaps in all the other counties. Fl. 

 April-May. 

 South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana, in the pine-barrens. 



HELENIUM L., Sp. PI. 886. 1753. 

 H. nudiflorum Nutt., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7:384. 1841. 



Leptopoda brachypoda T. & G., Fl. 2 :38s. .1842. 



Low grounds near the Canoochee and Ohoopee Rivers and 

 Pendleton Creek in tattnall, June, 1903, in flower. Grows 

 also near the sources of the Ohoopee River, a little outside 

 of our limits. 



Virginia to Florida, Missouri, and Texas, in the coastal plain. 

 H. autumnaleL., Sp. PI. 886. 1753. 



In low grounds, particularly where the Lafayette formation 

 seems to be absent, dooly, irwin, berrien, coffee {714)- 

 Fl. Aug.-Oct. 



Widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains, but perhapSi 

 not everywhere native. 

 H. tenuifolium Nutt., Jour. Acad. Phila. 7:66. 1834. 

 Bitter Weed. 



Our commonest weed, along roads and railroads throughout. 

 Fl. May-Nov. 



Now widely distributed in the southeastern states, but proba- 

 bly native only in the Mississippi valley or farther west. It 

 has spread rapidly in Georgia in the last 15 or 20 years (see 

 Bull. Torrey Club, 28:484. 1901), but it is still rather 

 scarce in the flat pine-barrens toward the coast. 



