786 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low swampy banks of Mobile River. August. Thesole 
locality. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in maritimis paludosis Penusylyaniac et Carolinae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
More material is needed to define with absolute accuracy the species enumerated 
above of this extensive and difficult genus, particularly of the willow-leat gronp 
(Vulgares), which is hnt scantily represented in our collections Of the 101 species 
and varieties, confined to the region east of the Mississippi River and the adjacent 
territory to the verge of the treeless plains, 26 species with 11 well marked varieties 
have been recognized in Alabama, ‘Three species are peculiar to the Lonisianian 
area and most frequent in the Coast plain and Maritime Pine belt, extending from 
Texas to North Carolina and scarcely straying northward beyond the southern 
border of eastern Virginia. These are .{ster purpuralus, A. exilis, J.adnatus, the last 
not extending west of the Mississippi River. Confined to the same area are the 
varieties—Aster patens tenuicaulis, d. dumosus coridifolius, and A. dumosus subulacfolius, 
BRIGHERON L. Sp. Pl. 2:863. 1753, 
Fully 150 species of both hemispheres, chiefly American, a small number of South 
Africa, Australia, and the Old World. North America, 70 to 75; Atlantic, 1%, 
Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. Syn. 2:431. 1807. Daisy. Swrrr ScaBiovs. 
Aster annuus L. Sp. Pl. 2:875. 1753. 
Erigeron heterophylus Mubl.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 3:1956. 1804. ; 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 265. Chap. Fl. Suppl, 627; ed.3, 226. Gray, Syn. V). N. A. 1, pt. 
2:218, 
CENTRAL EUROPE, INTRODUCED, 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec; New 
England west to Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, California, south to the Gulf, from 
Florida to Arkausas. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Scattered. Most frequeut in the Central Prairie 
region in pastures and old fields. Mobile County, in damp gronnd, waste places, 
borders of ditches, waysides. Flowers white, often tinged with purple; June, July; 
appearing on the coast, as if introduced. 
Type locality: ‘Hah. in Canada,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Erigeron ramosus (Walt.) B.S. P. Prel. Cat. N.Y. 27. 1888. Daisy FLEABANE, 
Doronicum ramosum Walt. V1, Car. 205. 1788. , 
Lrigevon strigosus Mubl.; Willd. Sp. P1.3:1956. 1804; 
EN. Sk.2:394. Gray, Man. ed. 6,265. Chap. 1.206. Gray, Syn. FI.N.A.1, pt.2: 
219. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:19. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1:331. 
Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Ontario to Manitoba; south to the Gulf of 
Mexico, from Florida to Texas; west from the Atlantic to Minnesota, Nebraska, 
Montana, and the Pacitic. 
ALsBAMA: Over the State. Dry, exposed ground. Abundant in fields, worn-out 
grass lands, pastures, Flowers white; May, July. Biennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
rag ramosus beyrichii (Fisch. & Mey.) Smith & Pounds, Bot. Surv. Nebr. 2: 
. 1893. 
Erigeron strigosus beyrichii Gray, Syn. F1.N.A.1, pt.2:219. 1884. 
Stenactis beyrichit Fisch. & Mey. Ind, Sem. Petrop. 5:27. 1838. 
Gray, Syn. F1.N. A.1.¢. 
Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas, and Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Wooded hills on limestone benches. Lee County, 
Auburn (Baker §* Earle, 254). Franklin County, Russellville. Cedar woods of. 
Locust Dell farm. Copious. Flowers white; June. Biennial. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Erigeron pulchellus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:124. 1803. 
LILAC-FLOWERED Daisy FLEABANE. 
Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 3:1958. 1804. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 266, Chap. Fl. 206. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1. pt. 2: 216. 
Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Ontario to Hudson Bay and Manitoba; New 
England west to Minnesota: south from New Jersey to South Carolina, Tennessee, 
western Louisiana, aud Texas. 
