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Notes on some new and little known Plants of the Alabama Flora 



By Charles Moiir 



Several forms of plums without flowers and mature fruit, but 

 seemingly distinct, have been for years a source of perplexity. 

 Later discoveries of several species undescribed before, made in 

 other parts of the Southern States, render now the identification 

 of these doubtful forms from this State possible. 



Pruxus injucunda Small, Bull. Torn Bot. Club, 25 : 149. 1898. 



A low unsightly shrub scarcely exceeding four feet in height, 

 with short straggling branches and branchlets, was found on the 

 sandstone cliffs, at the summit of the Alpine Mountains, Talladega 

 County (near the signal station), alt. 1800 feet, in September^ 

 1892. • This shrub was recognized by Dr. Small to be identical 

 with his Prunns injucunda from the mountains of northern Georgia. 



■ Prunus hortulana Bailey, Card. & For. 5 : 90. 1892. 



A small tree about i 5 feet, rarely more, in height, branching 

 low, forming small thickets on the shell banks or shell heaps along 

 the shores of the inlets of the sea in Mobile County (Westfovvl 

 River, Bayou Coden). Confounded by the writer \\A\\\ Pnums 

 maritima until a specimen was submitted to Professor C. S. Sar- 

 gent, who, declaring that it had nothing in common with the Sea- 

 shore Plum, somewhat doubtfully referred the tree from the Ala- 

 bama shore to Bailey's species. 



The fruits received a few years ago were about the size of a 

 small Chickasaw Plum, greenish, of a reddish blush and with a 

 slight bloom, thus agreeing with the description of the fruit of 

 Prunus hortulana. The fruit ripens in September. 



Prunus marithna'm Chapman's Flora S. States, Ed. 3, Alabama, 

 Buckley, most probably belongs here. 



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Prunus Alabamensis sp. nov. 



Tree below medium size, scarcely over 25 or 30 feet high, about 

 6 inches in diameter Avith a rough bark : leaves thick, broadly ovate, 

 rounded or slightly narrowed at the base, short acuminate, obtuse 



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