752 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Adopogon dandelion (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 304. 1891. Dwarr DaNDELION. 
Tragopogon dandelion L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,2: 1111. 1763. 
Krigia dandelion Nutt. Gen. 2: 127. 1818.+ 
Cyathia dandelion DC. Prodr. 7:89. 1838. 
ELL Sk. 2:265. Gray, Man. ed. 6,298. Chap. F1.249. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 
2:412. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 247. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Maryland to Florida, west to Texas and 
Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Coast plain. Sparsely diffused. 
Lauderdale County. Tuscaloosa County (/. 4. Smith). Dallas County, Uniontown 
(L£, A, Smith), Morgan County. Hale County, Gallion. Mobile County. Flowers 
yellow; April, May; again in October (at Mobile). Not frequent. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘“‘ Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SCOLYMUS L. Sp. Pl. 2:813. 1753. 
Three or four species, Mediterranean region. 
Scolymus grandiflorus Desf. Fl. Atlant. 2: 240, t. 2z8. 1800. 
ALABAMA: Adventive from southern Europe. Mobile County, fugitive on ballast. 
Type locality: ‘In arvis incultis vulgatissima” (Northern Africa). 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SERINEA Raf. F1. Ludov. 149. 1817. 
(ApoGon Ell. Sk. 2:267. 1821-24.) 
One species? 
Serinea oppositifolia (Raf.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1:364. 1891. 
Krigia oppositifolia Rat. Fl. Ludov. 57. 1817. 
Apogon humilis Ell. Sk. 2: 267, 1821-24. 
Ell. Sk.1.c. Chap. Fl. 249. Gray, Syn. Fl.N.A.1, pt. 2:411. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 
Herb. 2: 246. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. South Carolina to Florida and ‘Texas and 
Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Sandy exposed soil. Cultivated and 
waste places, pastures. Cullman and ‘Tuscaloosa counties. Lee County, Auburn 
(Baker §' Earle), Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers deep yellow; March, April. 
Abundant in the lower country. Annual. 
Type locality not specifically given. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
PICRIS L. Sp. Pl. 2:792. 1753. 
Thirty-five species. 
Picris pauciflora Willd. Sp. Pl. 3:1557. 1804. 
SOUTHERN EUROPE. 
ALABAMA: Ballast weed. Mobile County, fugitive, collected in 1884; not found 
since. Annual? 
Type locality: “Hab. in Gallia australi.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
HIERACIUM L. Sp. Pl. 2:799. 1753. 
Five hundred nominal species, not well defined; perennials of both hemispheres, 
largely European and northern Asiatic. North America, 24, endemic; Atlantic, 9. 
Hieracium scribneri Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 20, t. 127. 1897. 
Perennial, somewhat glaucescent, sparingly or diffusely branched above, leafy, 
somewhat pubescent below with long spreading hairs; peduncles and pedicels gla- 
brous or densely glandular. Lowest leaves oblong or oblong-spatulate on winged 
petioles, acute, acuminate at the base, the upper oblanceolate, oblong to linear- 
lanceolate, sometimes even fiddle-shaped, sessile, acute, witha few scattered spine-like 
teeth, nearly glabrous; inflorescence more or less corymbose-paniculate; involucre 
nearly glabrous or glandular; achenes columnar, somewhat constricted under the 
rim of the summit; pappus not exceeding the involucral bracts. 
“A very well marked species, with much the foliage of H.paniculatum, but far 
more nearly the habit and inflorescence of H. venosum, which latter it is like in its 
vernal flowering.” —E. L. Greene. Puati IX. 
Carolinian area. Southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. 
