st6 PLANT LIFE IN ALABAMA. 
Lonisianian area. Western Louisiana; Texas. 
ALanamMa: Coast plain. Sandy pine woods. Mobile County, May, 1901 (A/okr). 
Local. July. Perennial. : 
Clearly distinct. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
Rudbeckia chapmani Boynton & Beadle, Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1:14. 1901. 
CHAPMAN’S CONEFLOWER. 
Perennial, 14 to 3 feet high; radical leaves 8 to 16 inches long (including petiole), 
broadly ovate-lanceolate, 24 to 4 inches wide, harshly but inconspicuously pubes- 
cent, 5 or 7 nerved, trnneate or cordate at the base, dentate or coarsely crenulate- 
dentate; cauline leaves ovate-lanceolate, rounded or narrowed «at the base, sub- 
dentate or nearly entire, petioled; stems conspicuously angled, striate, sparingly 
pubescent or glabrous, branched near the summit; involucre foliaceous, imbricated, 
glabrate, or with lines of soft hairs on the margin and nerves; rays 12 to 16, about 
an inch long, 2 or 3 toothed at the apex; disk hemispherical, dark purple; chaff of 
the receptacle abruptly pointed at the apex and ciliate with a few short hairs; 
pappus a shallow coroniform border. 
Carolinian area. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. North Alabama (G. 2. Vasey), 1878; no specific 
locality given. 
Type locality: ‘Mountains of Georgia (Dr. A. W. Chapman, no locality; Dr. D.P. 
Cleaveland, Dalton, Ga.) and Alabama (Dr. G. Vasey [G. R. Vasey ?], 1878).” 
P.753. After Llephantopus carolinianus insert: 
Blephantopus violaceus Schultz Bip. Linnaea, 20 : 517. 1847. 
Identification on the authority of C, ¥. Baker. 
Carolinian area. 
ALABAMA: Qoast plain. Mobile. October. 
