THISTLE FAMILY. 761 
Hupatorium compositifolium Walt. Fl. Car. 199. 1788. Rouen Doc FENNEL. 
Eupatorium coronopifolium Willd. Sp. Pl. 3:1750. 1804. 
Crysocoma coronopifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 2:102. 1803. 
El. Sk. 2:294. Chap. Fl.196. Gray, Syn. Fl.N.A.1, pt.2:97. Coulter, Contr. 
Nat. Herb. 2: 178. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Arid sandy soil. Open copses, pas- 
tures, old fields, borders of woods. Clay County, Ironaton, 800 feet altitude. Cham- 
bers and Dallas counties, etc., to Mobile County. Flowers white; October, November. 
Most abundant in the Coast Pine belt, covering old fields, pastures, etc. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bupatorium smithii Greene & Mohr. 
Stem 3 to 5 feet high, slender, puberulent, terete; basal and lower leaves unknown, 
upper cauline with long linear or lanceolate rachis and a few linear segments, or 
the floral wholly linear and with or without a few short lobes or teeth; inflorescence 
an elongated compound thyrsus a foot long or more; heads about 2 lines long; 5 to 
8 flowered, involucre bracts oblong, obtuse, not mucronate, scarions-margined, 
indistinctly 3-nerved; style branches long wid filiform; pappus scabrous. 
A fourth member of the small group as heretofore known consisting only of F. 
compositifolium, IE. capillifolium, and L. leptophyllum. All of the latter have narrow 
panicles of racemed heads, while in /. smithii these are glomerate on short lateral 
branches, and formed as a whole into » long narrow thyrsus, ~ PLATE X. 
Carolinian area. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. Chambers (Connty. Flowers in 
September. Rare and local. 
Type locality: The only known specimen is from Chambers (‘onnty, where it was 
collected in September, 1874, by Dr. KE. A. Smith. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mobr. 
EHupatorium pinnatifidum Ell. Sk. 2: 295, 1821-24. PINNATIFID EUPATORIUM, 
Chap. F1.195. Gray, Syn. FI. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 97. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills. Central prairies. Damp _bor- 
ders of thickets. Lee County, Auburn (J. 8. Earle). Chambers County (/. 4. 
Smith). Dallas County, Mount Pleasant (HZ. 4A. Smith). Flowers September; infre- 
quent and local. 
Type locality: ‘‘Grows in damp soils in the middle districts of Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Hupatorium purpureum L. Sp. Pl. 2:838. 1753. 
TRUMPET-WEED, PURPLE BONESET. 
Eupatorium trifoliatum L. Sp, Pl. 2:837, 1753, 
E. ternifolium Ell. Sk. 2 :306. - 1824. 
Ell. Sk.l.c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 239, in part. Chap. Fl. ed. 3,213, in part. Gray, 
Syn. Fl. N.A.1, pt. 2:94. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:177. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick to Manitoba; New lMngland 
west to Dakota and Nebraska, south and east from Colorado to Texas and Florida. 
AtaBaMA: Throughout. Low thickets and shaded banks. Flowers pale purple. 
August. Most frequent in the mountains. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in America septentrionali.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eupatorium maculatum L. Amoen. Acad. 4:288. 1755. 
SeotreD TRUMPET-WEED. QUEEN OF THE MEADOW. 
Eupatorium purvureum var. maculatum Darl, Fl. Cestr. 453. 
El. Sk. 2:308. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1, pt. 2:96. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:177, 
Britt. & Br. Ill. Fl. 3 :307. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Distribution as in the last. 
ALABAMA: Throughout. Common in the lower districts. Flowers pink to wine- 
purple. Four to6 feet high. , 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in America septentrionali.”’ 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bupatorium amoenum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:514. 1814. Low TRUMPET-WEED. 
Eupatorium purpureum amoenum Gray, Syn. Fl. 2, pt. 1:96. 1884. 
E. maculatum amoenum Brittou, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:312. 1894. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,239. Chap. FI. ed. 3, 213. Britt. & Br. Ill. FL. 3, 307. 
Carolinian area. New York and North Carolina, New Jersey, south to Virginia, 
and along the mountains to Georgia. 
