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ALABAMA: Metamorphic and Coosa hills. Exposed rocky hillsides, Dekalb County, 
Mentone, 1,600 feet. Calhoun County, Anniston, 800 feet. St. Clair County, Spring- 
le: Tallapoosa County, Dadeville, 900 feet. Mowers deep yellow; June, July. 
ot rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Collected on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, May 21, 1890, by Prof. 
F. Lamson-Scribner.” 
Hieracium venosum L. Sp. Pl. 2:800. 1753. RATTLESNAKE WEED. 
ee 2:262. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 299. Chap. Fl. 250. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, 
pt. 1:425. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario to Saskatchewan; southern New Eng- 
Jand west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Montana, sonth to Arkansas, and along the 
mountains from Tennessee to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry hillsides. Clay County, near Moseley, banks of 
Talladega Creek, 1,000 feet (Franklin’s place, August 2, 1896). Lee County, Auburn 
(Baker 3° Earle). Rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Hieracium marianum Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1572. 1804. MaryLanp HawkweEeED. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,300. Chap. Fl. ed.3,272. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2, pt. 1: 426. 
Carolinian area. Rhode Island, southern New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Dry open copses. Lee County, Auburn (Baier § 
iéarle). October. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in America boreali.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Hieracium greenii Porter & Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 120. 1893. 
Pilosella spathulata Schultz Bip. Flora, 45:439. 1862. Not Hieracium spathulatum 
Scheele. 1863. / 
Hieracium marianum var. spathulatum Gray, Syn. FI. 2, pt.1: 455. 1886. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 300. 
Carolinian area. Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Lee County, Auburn (Baker §: Earle). October. 
Type locality: ‘‘In dry soil, Tuscarora Mountain, Huntingdon Co. * * * 
Two-Top Mountain, Franklin Co., Penn. * * * Mountains of Clinton Co., 
Penn. * * * Peaks of Otter, Virginia.” 
Hieracium gronovii L. Sp. Pl. 2: 802. 1753. CoMMON HAWKWEED. 
Ell. Sk. 2: 263. Gray, Man. ed.6,300. Chap. Fl. 250. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 
2: 426. 
Carolinian area. Southern Ontario: New York west to Missouri and Arkansas, 
south to the Gulf, from Florida to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the State. Exposed light soil. Open dry woods. Very 
variable. Inthe dry pine barrens of the coast are found persistent forms with the stem 
leafy to the narrow elongated dense panicle, and the radical leaves strongly hirsute 
with long shaggy hairs (var. hirsutissimum Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2: 427). Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Virginia, Pensylvania.” 
Herb. Gecl. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
TARAXACUM Haller, Stirp. Helv. 1:23. 1768. 
Twenty-two species, perennial herbs, temperate Kurope, Asia. 
Taraxacum taraxacum (L.) Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 1138. 1880-83. 
Common DANDELION, 
Leontodon taraxacum L. Sp. Pl. 2: 798. 1753. 
Taraxacum officinale Web. Prim. Fl. Hols. 56. 1780. 
T. dens-leonis Desf. F'1. Atl. 2: 228. 1800. 
Ell. Sk. 2:250. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 303. Chap. Fl. 252. Gray, Syn. F1.N.A.1, pt. 
2:440. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:249. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 439. 
EUROPE. 
Naturalized nearly over the continent. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the State. Blossoms from February to May, again in 
October. Common everywhere. Perennial. 
Economic uses: The root is the ‘‘ Taraxacum” or ‘dandelion root” of the United 
States Pharmacopeia. ; 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Europae pascuis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
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