760 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
SCLEROLEPIS Cass. Bull. Soc. Philom.1816:198. 1816. 
Single species, Eastern North Aierica. 
Sclerolepis uniflora (Walt.) Porter, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:311. 1894. 
ONE-FLOWERED SCLEROLEPIS, 
Ethulia uniflora Walt. Fl. Car, 195. 1788. 
Sparganophorus verticillatus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:98. 1803. 
Sclerolepis verticillata Cass. Dict. 48: 155. 1827. ; 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 238. Chap. F1.190. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. I, pt. 2:92. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Coast plain. Wet places. Wilcox County 
(S. B. Buckley). Baldwin County, Point Clear. Flowers sky-blue; May. Rare. 
Perennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
AGERATUM L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2,2:1175. 1763. 
About 30 species, tropical regions, mostly American. North America, 3. 
Ageratum conyzoides L. Sp. Pl. cd. 2, 2:1175. 1763. MEXICAN AGERATUM. 
Ageratum mexicanum Sims, Bot. Mag. 52: t. 2524. 1787. : 
Chap. F1.189. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A, 1, pt.2:98. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 356. 
Cuba to Brazil, Pacific Islands, East Indies, Tropical Africa. 
Louisianian area. Coast of Georgia to Florida. Naturalized. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Escaped from cultivation, Waste and cultivated places 
near dwellings. Mobile County. Flowers lilac; July to October. Becoming a 
troublesome weedin the gardens. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
BUPATORIUM L. Sp. Pl. 2:836. 1753. THorovuaHworrt. 
Four hundred and seventy-five species, perennial herbs, rarely shrubby, temperate 
to tropical regions, chiefly tropical America, United States, Argentina, Asia, Europe. 
North America, 45 or 50; Atlantic, 26; Western Continental, 14; Pacific, 1. 
Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam.) Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 5:311. 1894. 
Doa FENNE1.. 
Artemisia capillifolia Lam. Encyel. 1: 267. 1783. 
Lupatorium foeniculoides Walt. F1. Car. 199. 1788. 
FE, foeniculaceum Willd. Sp. Pl. 3:1750. 1804. : 
EM. Sk.2:294. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 239. Chap. Fl. 196. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1, pt. 2:97. 
Cusa. 
Carolinian and Louisianian area. Delaware to Florida and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to theCoast. Low fields, pastures, open woods. Cull- 
man County, 600 feet aititude. Clay County, Ironaton, 8U0 feet altitude. Chambers 
County and southward. Vlowers white; October, November. When bruised, it 
emits the odor of fennel. Most abundant in the damp-Coast plain. 
. rile locality: ‘On la croit originaire des Indes orientales & de la Chine.” (Mis- 
aken. ) 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eupatorium leptophyllum DC. Prodr. 5:176. 1836. 
Stem 24 to 34 feet high, smoothish, round, erect, paniculately branched; leaves 
undivided, linear, smooth; racemes spiciform, elongated, somewhat secundly 
branched, the terminal branches and branchlets paniculately disposed; flowering 
heads 3 to 5 flowered on short pedicels, involucral scales lanceolate with a nar- 
row white margin. ‘ Habitus inflorescentiae Solidaginis, caeterum I. foeniculaceo 
affine.” DC. 1. ¢.) 
Lonisianian area. South Georgia, Florida to Mississippi. 
ALaBAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Dry open pine barrens, old sandy 
pas a EE. compositifolium. Mobile County, Springhill. October, November. 
Frequent. 
In habit of growth near FE. capillifolium; distinguished at once by the simple 
entire smoothish leaves. 
Type locality: ‘In Georgia circa Sayannah a cl. Herbemont lecta.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
