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Alabama: Mountain region. Rich shady woods. Blount County, Waruock Moun- 

 tain, 1,500 feet altitude. April, May; infrequent. 

 Type locality (Beck, Bot. U. S.): "Shiidy woods. Mi8s[ouri].' 



Trillium erectum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 340. 1753. Ill-scented Wake-kobin. 



rrilUiim 2)e)i(luhim Willd. Neue Schrift. 3 : 421. 1801. 



T. rhomhoideum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 215. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1:427. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 530. Chap. Fl. 478. 



East Siberia, Japan. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia and Ontario; from New England, 

 throughout the Ohio Valley, to Missouri, south along the mountains to (Jeorgia. 



Alabama: Lower hills. Woods. .Jefferson County. Flowers white. April; in- 

 frequent. 



Economic uses: The rhizomas of this, T. sessile and T. cernuuin, are indiscriminately 

 collected for medicinal use under the name of birth-root. Used by the aborigines, 

 and now iu eclectic i)ractice. 



Type locality : "Hab. iu Virginia.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Trillium stylosum Nutt. Gen. 1 : 239. 1818. Catesby's Wake-kobin. 



Trillium cateshaei Ell. Sk. 1 : 429, aud T. nervosum Ell. 1. c. 

 Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 479. 

 Carolinian area. Mountains of Carolina and Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Rich shaded banks. Dekalb County, Mentoue, 1,600 

 feet. Auburn County {F. S. Earle). 

 Type locality: " Upper Carolina and Georgia." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Trillium recurvatum lanceolatum Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14 : 273. 1879. 

 Trillium lanceolatum Bovkin, name only, iu Herb. Torr. 

 Chap. Fl. Supid. 656; ed"^. 3, 505. 

 Carolinian area. Georgia. 



Alabama: Ascribed to this State by Chapman, Flora, 1. c. 

 Type locality : " Georgia and Alabama." 



Trillium cernuum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 339. 1753. Nodding Trillium. 



Ell. Sk. 1:428. Gray, Mau. ed. 6, 531. Chap. Fl. 478. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario; New 

 England south to New Jersey along the mouutaius to Georgia. 



Alabama: Ijower hills. Tuscaloosa County (A". J. <Smi?/i). Flowers March, April. 

 Rare. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ALETRIS L. Sp. PI. 1:319. 17.53. 



Two species, perennials. Eastern Asia, North America. Atlantic America, 2. 

 Aletris farinosa L. Sp. PI. 1 : 319. 1753. White Star Grass. 



Aletris alba Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 189. 1803. 



Ell. Sk 1:398. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 513. Chap. Fl. 470. 



Allegheniau to Louisianian area. Ontario and New England west to Minnesota, 

 from New York south to Florida, west to Arkansas and Missouri. 



Alabama : Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Damp light soil, prairies, borders 

 of swamps; most frequent iu the pine barrens. Autauga County. Prattville. Chil- 

 ton, Washington, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers white. May, June; 

 fre([uent. 



Economic uses: The root, as " colic root," is used medicinally. 



Type locality: " Hal), in America septentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Aletris aurea Walt. Fl. Car. 121. 1788. Golden Star Grass. 



Ell. Sk. 1:399. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 513. Chap. Fl. 470. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:426. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Pine barrens. New .lersey along the coast to 

 Florida, west to eastern Texas. 



Alabama: Coast Pine belt to the Coast plain. Low damp pine l)ai"rens. Wash- 



