THISTLE FAMILY. 809 
Actinospermum angustifolium (Pursh) Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2:389. 1842. 
Buphthalmum angustifolium Pursh, Fl, Am. Sept. 2:564. 1814. 
Balduina multiflora Nutt. Gen. 2:176. 1818. 
Ell. Sk. 2:447. Chap. Fl. 241. Gray, Syn. FILN. A. 1, pt. 2:302. 
Louisianian area. Georgia to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Drifting sands. Baldwin County, eastern shore Mobile 
Bay, Point Clear. Flowers vellow; August, September. Rare. Annual or biennial. 
Type locality: ‘In Georgia and Florida. Bartram.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
MARSHALLIA Schreb. Gen. Pl. 810. 1789.! 
Four species, perennial herbs, South Atlantic North America, 
Marshallia graminifolia (Walt.) Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 482. 1898. 
NaRROW-LEAF MARSHALLIA. 
Athanasia graminifolia Walt. Fl. Car. 201. 1788. 
Marshallia angustifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:520. 1814, 
Ell. Sk. 2:316. Chap. Fl. 241. Gray, Syn. FL N. A.1, pt.2:303. Boynton & Beadle, 
Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 4, t. 9. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida and western Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Flat damp pine barrens. Mobile County, Bayou La- 
batre. Flowers palelilac; August. Not frequent. Perennial. 
‘Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Mershallia graminifolia cyananthera Ell. Sk.2:316. 1821-24. 
LANCE-LEAF MARSHALLIA. 
Boynton & Beadle, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 4, ¢. 20. 
Louisianian area. Florida, Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt. Damp pine woods. Escambia County, Flomaton 
(Biltmore Herb.). Rare. 
Type locality: ‘Collected by Dr. Baldwin, near St. Marys, Georgia.” 
Marshallia obovata (Walt.) Beadle & Boynton, Biltmore Bot. Stud.1:5,t.5. 1901. 
Athanasia obovata Walt. Fl. Car. 201. 1788. 
Persoonia lanceolata Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 2: 105. 1803. 
Trattenickia lanceolata Pers. Syn. 2: 403. 1807. 
Marshallia lanceolata Pursh, I'l. Am. Sept. 2:519. 1814, ~>— 
Ell. Sk.2:315. Chap. Fl. 241; ed.3, 260. Gray, Syn. FL.N. a. 4, pt. 2: 303. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region and Lower hills. Dry open woods. Cherokee County 
(C. Mohr). Lee County, Auburn (Baker § Earle). Flowers pale pink; June. Not 
frequent. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Marshallia trinervia (Walt.) Porter, Bull. Torr. Club, 5: 337. 1894. 
‘TRIPLE-NERVED MARSHALLIA. 
Athanasia trinervia Walt. Fl. Car. 201. 1788. 
Marshallia latifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:519. 1814. 
Carolinian area. Virginia and North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower hills. Dry open woods. Cullman County. 
Bibb County, limestone cliffs, banks of Little Cahaba River. Tuscaloosa County, 
Windham Springs (Z. 4. Smith). Flowers pale pink; July. Infrequent. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
wave Marshallia mohri Beadle & Boynton, Biltmore Bot. Stud.1:8,t.3. 1901. 
Perennial $ foot to 2} feet tall; leaves ovate-lunceolate, 6 to 10 inches long, 
including the petiole, § inch to 1} inches wide, the uppermost much reduced in 
size, obtuse, gradually narrowed into the petiole, which is as long as the blade, 
the uppermost acute or obtuse, sessile, prominently 3-nerved, glabrous, entire, of a 
firm texture in age; stem angled, striate, glabrous to near the top, branched above 
the middle; heads usually several, coutaining from 30 to 75 or more flowers; involu- 
cral bracts thin at flowering time, ovate-lanceolate, acute at the apex, with conspic- 
uous hyaline borders below the middle; corollas slender, pubescent, slightly if at all 
1C. D. Beadle and F..E. Boynton, Revision of the Species of Marshallia, Biltinore 
Botanical Studies, vol.1,p.3. 1901. 
