THISTLE FAMILY. 8038 
Helianthus longifolius Pursh, FJ.2:571. 1814. 
Ell. Sk. 2:417. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1, pt. 2: 278. 
Carolinian area. Western Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Damp rocky glades. De Kalb County, on Lookout 
Mountain, De Soto Falls (Herb. Biltmore), Marshall County (Herb. Biltmore, 1900). 
Local and rare. September, October. 
Type locality: ‘In the western parts of Georgia. Lyon.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Helianthus schweinitzii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2:330. 1842. 
SCHWEINITZ’S SUNFLOWER. 
Chap. Fl. 231. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 278. 
Carolinian area, Western North Carolina and middle Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry borders of woods. Lee County, Auburn. Cull- 
man County. September, October; infrequent. : 
Type locality: ‘‘Near Salem, North Carolina, Schweinitz! and in Mecklenburg 
County. Mr. M. A. Curtis!” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Helianthus glaucus Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 480. 1898. 
SOUTHERN SMOOTH SUNFLOWER. 
Carolinian area. North Carolina. Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry open woods. Cullman County. Two to 3} 
feet high. ; 
**Perennial, deep green. Stems erect, 9 to 18 dm. tall, widely branching, smooth, 
glabrous and glaucous; leaves opposite; blades somewhat leathery, firm, lanceolate, 
acuminate, sharply serrate, very scabrous above, tomentulose beneath, narrowed into 
short-margined petioles; heads rather small; involucres campannilate, 8 to 10 min. 
high; bracts few, lanceolate or oblong with a lanceolate tip, more or less strongly 
spreading, white ciliate; rays yellow, oblong, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, often 5 to 7; disk 
becoming 1 cm. broad; disk-corollas 4 mm. long; segments lanceolate to oblong- 
lanceolate; disk bracts commonly 3-toothed at the apex, minutely pubescent; achenes 
3 to 3.5 mm _ long, oblong-obovoid, with two slender barbed teeth.” 
Type locality: ‘‘ Dunu’s Mountain, Rowan County, North Carolina, August, 1894; 
Stone Mountain and vicinity, Georgia, and on Little Stone Mountain, Georgia, Sep- 
tember, 1894.” : 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
VERBESINA L. Sp. Pl. 2:901. 1753. 
(ACTINOMERIS Nutt. Gen. Pl. 2:181. 1818.) 
Genus variously limited; perennials. South America. North America, 9 species; 
Atlantic, 7. 
Verbesina occidentalis (L.) Walt. Fl. Car. 213. 1788. WAYSIDE CROWNBEARD. 
Sieyesbeckia occidentalis L. Sp. Pl. 2:900. 1753. 
Verbesina siegesbeckia Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 2: 134, 1803. 
Ell. Sk.2:411. Gray, Man, ed. 6,281. Chap. Fl. 237. Gray, Syn. I'l. N. A. 1, pt. 
2: 287. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Ohio, Illinois, and Tennessee, south 
to Florida and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Damp places, borders of thickets, 
fields, waysides; August, September. Four to 5 feet high; coarse. One of the most 
abundant wayside weeds of the Coast plain. . 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Verbesina virginica L. Sp. Pl. 2:901. 1753. WHITE CROWNBEARD. 
Ell. Sk. 2:410.. Gray, Man. ed. 6,281. Chap. Fl. 238. Gray, Syn. FIN. A. 1, pt. 
2:287. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 221. 
MEXICO. ; 
Carolinian and Louisianianareas. Virginia to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine region to Coast plain. In rich soil, horders of fields and 
woods. Montgomery aud Mobile counties. Flowers sordid white; September. Six 
to 8 teet high. Sparsely ditfused. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
