MAPLE FAMILY. 605 



County, Auburn {Earle cj- Undencood). Tuscaloosu, Montgouiery, Clark, Baldwin, 

 and Mobile couuties. Flowers greenish, April ; fruit ripe in September ami October. 

 Freijueut. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Viigiuia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Euonymus atropurpureus Jacq. Hort. Vind. 2 : 5, t 120. 1772. 



Strawberry Tree. Burning Bush. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 293. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 110. Chap. Fl. 76. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario to Montana, New York to Ohio, 

 Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory, south to Virginia and along the moun- 

 tains to Georgia. 



Alabama : Mountain region. Jackson County, Gurley place in cultivation, said to 

 have been transplanted from the woods of the vicinity. 



Economic uses : The bark is used medicinally. That of the root is the Euonymus 

 of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. 



CELASTRUS L. Sp. PI. 19(3. 1753. 



About 135 species, temperate to tropical regions of both hemispheres. North 

 America, 1. 



Celastrus scaudeiis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 19tj. 17.53. Wax-w ork. Fai.sk Bitter-sweet. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 110. Chap. Fl. 77. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario; Lake Suiierior to Manitoba; New 

 England west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Kansas, south to the mountains of Ten- 

 nessee and North Carolina, and in New Mexico. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Ridges of highest elevation, rocky banks. Dekalb 

 County, Lookout Mountain, Mentone, 1,800 to 2,000 feet. Flowers greenish, June; 

 fruit ripe in October. Climbing shrub ; infrequent. 



Economic uses: The bark is used as a domestic medicine. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Canada." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. ISlohr. 



STAPHYLEACEAE. Bladder Nut Family. 



STAPHYLEA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 270. 1753. 



Seven species, temijerate Europe. Eastern Asia, 1. North America, 2. 

 Staphylea trifolia L. Sp. PL 1 : 270. 1753. Amekican Blauder Nut. 



ElLSk. 1:369. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 118. Chap. Fl. 77. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian area. Quebec and Ontario; New York to West Vir- 

 ginia, west to Missouri and Arkansas, south to Tennessee and South Carolina. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley. Moist shady borders of woods and copses. Lauder- 

 dale County, Florence, blufts of Tennessee River (if. C. Wilson), QOO feet. Flowers 

 white, purple-tinged, April ; rare. Shrub 8 to 10 feet high. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ACERACEAE. Maple Family. 



ACER L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1056. 1753.' 



Sixty species, temperate regions Northern Hemisphere, eastern Asia. North 

 America, 13 or 14 species. Trees. 



Acer saccharum Marsh. Arb. Am. 4. 1785. Sugar Maple. Rock Maple. 



Acer saccharinum Wang. N. Am. Holzart. 36, 1. 11, f. 26. 1787. Not L. 



Acer barbatuin Sargent, Silv. N. A. 2 : 97, t. 90. 18913. Not Michx. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 450. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 117. Chap. Fl. 80. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to Manitoba; 

 New England west to Minnesota, south to Missouri and Arkansas, and from New 

 York alonjjf the mountains to Tennessee and Georgia. 



' Chas. G. Sargent, Silv. N. Am. vol. 2, pp. 79 to 113. 1893. 



William Trelease, The sugar maph^s, with a winter synopsis of all North American 

 maples, Ann. Rep. Mo. Bot. Card., pp. 88 to 106. 1894. ' 



