800 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA 
Stemmodontia asperrima (Spreng.). 
Buphthatmum asperrimum Spreng. Neu. Entdeck. 2:140. 1821. Not Wollastonia 
asperrima Decsne. Nouv. Aun. Mus. Par, 3: 414. 1834. Nor Wedelia asperrima Benth. 
FI. Austral. 3:539. 1866. 
ASnomostephium buphthalmoides DC, Prodr. 5:560. 1836. 
Wedelia buphthalnoides Griseb. Goett. Abh. 7: 235, 1857. 
* Seruneum buphthalmoides Kuntze, Rey. Gen. Pl. 1: 365, 1891. 
Wrsr INDIES. 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile County. Flowers golden yellow; 
August, September. Persistent on the ballast heaps and adjoining waste places, 
July. First observed 1884. Perennial. ; , 
Type locality not ascertained. Locality of Anomostephium buphthalmoides: “ Guada- 
Inpa (Rertero! Krauss!), loco dicto Pointe-a-Pitre (Perotte!).” . 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
BORRICHIA Aduns. Fam. P}. 2:130. 1763. 
Six species, tropical America. Shrubby or suffruticose. South Atlantic North 
America, 2. 
Borrichia frutescens (L.) DC. Prodr. 5:489. 1836. 
. Buphthalmum frutescens L. Sp. Pl. 2: 903. 1753. ; 
Ell. 8k.2:408 Gray, Man. ed. 6,277. Chap. Fl.'224. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 
2:265. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2: 216. ‘ 
Mexico, Wrst INDIEs. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Seashore of Virginia to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Salt marshes. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flow- 
ers yellow; August, October. Frequent. Shrubby at the base. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘“‘Hab.in Jamaica, Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
HELIANTHUS L. Sp. Pl. 2:904. 1753. 
About 60 species, perennials, chiefly American. Mexico, Central and South 
America. North America, 40; Atlantic, 23; interior, 8; Pacific, 10. 
Helianthus debilis Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2,7: 367. 1841. 
EARLY SUNFLOWER. 
Chap. Fl. 229. Gray, Syn, Fl. N.A.1, pt.2:273. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2: 217. 
Lonisianian areca. Florida to western Louisiana and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Adventive in cultivated fields. May, 1888; not observed 
since. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘The sea-coast of East Florida, (Dr. Baldwin.)” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Helianthus angustifolius L.Sp. Pl. 2: 906. 1753. NARROW-LEAF SUNFLOWER. 
Ell. Sk. 2:415. Gray, Man. ed. 6,278. Chap. F1. 229. Gray, Syn. FIN. A.1, pt. 2: 
273. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 218. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas, Arkan- 
sus, southern Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Damy and dry sandy soil, bor- 
ders of thickets, woods, and fields. Morgan County. Cullinan County, 800 feet. 
Autauga, Clarke, and Mobile counties, etc. Rays golden yellow; disk brownish. 
Common; most abundant throughout the Coast Pine belt. 
Type locality: “Hab. in Virginia,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
Helianthus angustifolius nemorosus var. nov. 
Radical and lower cauline leaves from roundish-ovate to broadly lanceolate and 
acute. Very variable, in one extreme closely approaching Z. floridanus Gray,' and 
in the pues connected with the type by intergrading forms, and hence of doubtful 
varietal value. 
ALABAMA: Shaded, springy banks. Mobile County,Springhill. October, November. 
'Syn. FL.N. A. 1, pt. 2: 278. 
