nfj'i IM.VXl" l-IKK <»K AI.AI'.AMA. 



Piiinus iiijucunda Small. li.ill. 'I'orr. Cinl). 25 : 1 l!i. 1S!(K. 



("aiolini.in area. (Ifor^^ia. 



Aiahama: Momitiiin njjion. nicky summits. TallaiU-Ka County. am<>n;r Haudntoiie 

 clitls. Albino Mountain, near tin! Signal Station, Soptcmlu r, ISiH'. W itliont fruit. 



Tvpe lorality : " In sandy soil on the granite districts about Stone Mountain, (Ja." 



Piumis gracilis Engolni. iV Cray, liost. .lourn. Nat. Hist. 5:L'i:i 1HI7. 



Low ri.t'M. 



Carolinian ana. Ti-nncssee. Kansas, Ti-xas. 



Ai.ahama: Mountain n-gion. Mtta rjihic hills. Sandy open copses. Dekalh 



County. Lookout Mountain, near Montonc. Leo County {linker -S' Karh). Low 

 shruh. Klowors in March. Inrrfi|UOiit. 



Type locality: 'Mtpen post-oak woods west of the lira/.os.'' 



Prunus serotiiia i-.hrh. Heitr. 3 : 20. 17S8. 



Kll. Sk. I:;")!!, (iray, Man. ed. 6, l.")2. Chap. I'l. 120. t^oulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 



2 : lO.S. Sargent. Sil v. N. A. 4 : .")0, t. J'>r>. 



MkXKO, I'ERl', CoLOMKlA. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Newfoundland. <)nt:irio, and Manitoba; New 

 Kngland west to l)ak<)ta, south to Florida, and throughout the Culf States to Texas 

 and Arizona; niount.iiiis of Mexico. 



Alauama: Over the State. Scattered through tlu; mountains, more randy in the 

 lower districts, where it is scarcely initigeiious, disseminiited by birds. Klowers 

 white, Mar(di, Ajjril ; fruit iii>e in .Tune, black, palatable. 



Economic uses: A most valuable timber tree. The inner bark is the " wild cherry 

 bark," "I'runus virginiana," of the United States Pharmacopceia. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 



Prunus serotina neo-montana (Small) Sud worth, Xonu>ncl. Arb. Fl. U. S. 245. 18it7. 



Mountain lii.AOK Ciikkky. 



CeraxKS serotina var. montana Small, Mem. Torr. ( lull, 4 : 114. 1893. 



I'mnits serotina montana Uritt. Mem. Torr. ( luli. 5 : 3."i7. 1894. Not I'nmns montana 

 Marsh., 1785, nor Koch, 1854. 



Allegheniau and Carolinian areas. Southwestern N'irginia to Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Open rocky summits of the higher ranges. Talla- 

 dega County, Aljiine Mountain, near the Ihigstatf station, 1.800 to 2,000 feet; lirst 

 observed in' 1892. Clay County, Che-aw-ha Mountain, bare dills, 2,400 l'e<t; .Inly 31, 

 fruit not (|uite mature. Tree 25 to 35 feet high, bark very rough and with droojdng 

 branches. 



fyjie locality: •' On the "balds" near the summit of White Top Mountain, 5,500 

 feet altitude, southwestern N'irginia. 



Herb. ( ;eol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Prunus alabanieiisis sp. nov. Alabama Ciikurv. 



A tree b(dow medium size, 25 to 30 feet high, aud scarcely over 6 inches in diameter; 



leaves rather thick, broadly ovate, rounded or slightly narrowed at the base, from 



3 to 4 in( lies long and 1 to li inches wide, short-acuminate, blunt or acutish, bluntly 

 serrate, with the teeth rather distant and close adpnissed, glandular-tipped, smooth 

 and of a deep green above, dull on the lower surface, and finely jiubesceut by short 

 simple or forked hairs, which along the midrib and principal veiulets becouu', longer, 

 vilhuis. and more dense, the veinlets somewhat dark, prominent ; racemes elongated, 

 strict, erect (never drooping), the rachis and ]iedicels, like the calyx, closely pubes- 

 cent. 



In the specimens from Red Mountain the petals already withered were mostly .shed. 

 Druitc reddish to black, the few seen in sha])e and size similar to those of Prunus 

 serotina. 



The trunk is clear of limbs for the height of about 8 to 10 feet, the limbs spreading 

 and tinally inclined to be drooping. 



.V distinct species readily recognized by the characters of the leaves and inflores- 

 cencti .18 desciibeil. 



Carolinian area. (Jeorgia (Meriwether County, lleadte, 1899). 



.\labama: Mountain region. Red Mountain, near Hirmingham, on the benches of 

 siliceous firruginou^ strata, about 1. 000 to 1,200 feet altitude; just past tlowering 

 May 11, 1X98. lalladega County, Childersburg (Jiilfmore Herb. 1899). 



Prunus caroliniana Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 540. 1789. 



Mock Orange. liAUREL Cherrv. Wild Peach. 

 Ell. Sk. 1:540. Chap. Fl. 120. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:103. Sargent, Silv. 

 N. A. 4 : 50, t. 100. 



