THISTLE FAMILY. 819 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills and Central Prairie region. Pastures, waste places. 
Montgomery County, copious. Lee County, Auburn, perfectly naturalized. Flowers 
white; April. Annual? 
’ Type locality: ‘Hab. in Chio, Lemno, Hispania ad versuras agrorum.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CENTAUREA L. Sp. Pl. 2: 909. 1753. CENTAURRA. 
* About 350 species, Old World, European Asia. 
Centaurea calcitrapa L. Sp. Pl.2:917. 1753. Srar THISTLE. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,297. Gray, Syn. F].N. A. 1, pt. 2: 406. 
EUROPE. 
Adventive in seaports from New York southward. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile County. Flowersred; August. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Helvetia, Anglia, et Europa australiori secus vias.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Centaurea melitensis L. Sp. P].2:917. 1753. LOMBARDY STAR THISTLE. 
Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 420. 
MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE. 
Adventive in California. 
ALABAMA: Fugitive on ballast. Mobile County. Flowers yellowish; June. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Melita.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
THYRSANTHEMA Neck. Elem.1:6. 1790. 
(CHapTaLia Vent. Jard. Cels. t. 62. 1800.) 
Kight species, warmer America. South Atlantic North America, 1. 
Thyrsanthema semiflosculare (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 369. 1891. 
VERNAL CHAPTALIA. 
Perdicium semiflosculare Walt. Fl. Car. 204. 1788. 
Tussilago integrifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:121. 1803. 
Chaptalia tomentosa Vent. Jard. Cels. ¢. 61. 1800. 
C. integrifolia Nutt. Gen. 182. 1818. 
EL. Sk.2:459,. Chap. Fl. 248. Gray, Syn. FIN, A.1, pt.2: 408. Coulter, Contr. 
Nat. Herb. 2: 245. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas. 
AvaBpaMa: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Flat damp pine barrens. Mobile 
and Baldwin counties. Flowers white, purple tinged; February, March. Common. 
Perennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
