62 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Of Carduaceae (Compositae) were observed: 
Lacinaria scariosa squarrulosa. Silphium compositum. 
Lacinaria graminifolia. Chrysopsis graminifolia. 
Eupatorium album. Chrysopsis mariana. 
Eupatorium aromaticun. Aster undulatus. 
Parthenium integrifolium. Aster undulatus diversifotius. 
Solidago odora. Aster camptosorus. 
Solidago nemoralis. Aster patens. 
Sericocarpus bifoliatus. Aster sagittifolius. 
Sericocarpus asteroides. Aster laevis. 
These are all characteristic of open situations on the sterile rocky 
ridges. The asters were of stunted growth. On these summits two 
conditions prevail, namely, rocky ridges without much soil support- 
ing a xerophile or rupestrian flora, and depressions with a moist deeper 
soil supporting a mesophile flora. 
With the disappearance of the long-leaf pine the deciduous-leaved 
trees make their appearance, the same which also form largely the tree 
covering of the lower mountain ridges, with their dry but more gener- 
ous soil. The flora becomes more varied and types characteristic of 
these rocky heights more numerous. On their cliff-bound brow Prunus 
serotina neo-montana makes its appearance. This variety of the wild 
cherry is at once distinguished from the type by its low stature, scarcely 
exceeding 25 or 30 feet; by the stem, which is somewhat crooked with 
the bark rough; the wide-spreading slender branches, which are slightly 
drooping; its broader, thick leaves, with a fine close pubescence 
beneath, and its rigid horizontally spreading racemes, the berries 
ripening in August. This tree was first observed in Alabama, in 1892, 
on the summit of the Alpine Mountains, near the signal station (1,900 
feet), on the same range near Renfroe, nearly 1,000 feet lower, and on 
the summit of Chehawhaw Mountain, 2,400 feet. On the exposed cliffs 
forming the escarpment of the last Lonicera flava was found, trailing 
abundantly over the rocks, associated with Rubus villosus (R. cana- 
densis authors) and Smilax rotundifolia. It is also found on the 
lower ridges of the Alpine Mountains, near Renfroe, at an elevation 
of about 1,000 feet, and confined to a few localities on the eastern 
Alleghenian ranges in South Carolina and Georgia at similar altitudes. 
Prunus injucunda, a low, straggling shrub lately described from 
northwestern Georgia, and Vitis bécolor, or Le Conte’s grape, are not 
infrequently met with on Chehawhaw Mountain, as well as on other 
summits of the metamorphic region (Alpine Mountains, 1,900 feet) 
and on the highest of the Coosa hills (Anniston, 1,000 feet). Le 
Conte’s grape is recognized at first sight by the long stems of a bright 
reddish-brown (rufous) color stretching from rock to rock and over- 
hanging the cliffs, the leaves sharply lobed, with deep narrow sinuses, 
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