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Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England, along the coast to 

 Florida, west to Arkansas and southwestern Missouri. 



Alabama : Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Borders of wooded swauips. Mobile 

 and Baldwin counties. Flowers rose-pink; April. Frequent. Shrub4 to 8 feethigh. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Pensylvania. Kalm." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Leucothoe recurva (Buckl.) Gray, Man. ed. 2, 252. 1856. 



Recurved Andromeda. 



Andromeda recurva Buckl. Am. Jouru. Sci. 45 : 172. 1843. 



Carolinian area. Mountains of Virginia to North Carolina and Tennessee. 



Alabama: Credited to the State in Gray, Syn. FI. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 35. 



Type locality: "Mountains near Paint Rock, Tennessee, and the warm sx>rings, 

 North Carolina."' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PIERIS Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jouru. 17 : 159. 1834. 



About 12 species, Himalayan India, Japan, Cuba. North America, 4. Shrubs. 

 Pieris nitida (Bartr.) Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 2 : 588. 1876. Shinixg Fetter-bush. 



Andromeda nitida Bartram ; Marsh. Arb. Am. 8. 1788. 



Chap. FL 263. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 32. 



Cuba. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi and eastern 

 Louisiana. 



Alabama : Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Open boggy jnue barrens. Swampy 

 borders of rivulets. Flowers rose-jiink ; April. 



Type locality: " This shrub grows naturally in Carolina and Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Pieris phillyreaefolia (Hook.) DC. Prodr. 7:599. 1839. Low Andromeda. 



Andromeda jjhilh/reaefolia Hook. Icon. 1. 122. 1837. 



Chap. Fl. 262. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 31. 



Louisianian area. Western Florida. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Lowsandy banks of pine-barren streams. Mobile County, 

 on Bayou d'Eau Douce. Flowers white, February 18. Rare; only locality known 

 in the State. Shrub 5 to 8 inches high. 



Type locality : "Apalachicola, W. Florida. Mr. DrummondJ' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



XOLISMA Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 4 : 193, 1819. 

 About 10 species, shrubs. West Indies and North America ; one circumpolar. 



Xolisma ligustrina (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 4 : 135, 1894. 



Privet-like Xolisma. 



Vaccinium ligustrinum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 351. 1753. 



Andromeda ligustrina Muhl. Cat. 43. 1813. 



A. paniculata var. nudiftora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 255. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 :490. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 316. Chap. Fl. 263. Gray. Syn. Fl. N. A. 2. pt. 1 : 33. 



AUeghenian and Carolinian areas. Southern New England west to JMichigau, Mis- 

 souri, and Arkansas; Virginia and West Virginia along the mountains to eastern 

 Tennessee and Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Damp rocky banks. Clay County, Che-aw-ha 

 Mountain, at the waterfall, 2,300 ft-et, July 29, with ripe capsules. Lee County, 

 Auburn, 850 feet altitude. May 10 (Earle <>'• Underwood). Infrequent. 



Arborescent shrub, 10 to 15 feet high, sparsely pubescent; distinct by the almost 

 leafless slender loose-flowered racemes, pedicels mostly single, over ^ inch in length. 

 The plants from the higher mountains answer perfectly to the ty])e. Specimens 

 from Cullman County with the leaves pubescent on both sides, racemes paniculate 

 and more dense, the flowers with shorter jtedicels, several from the same bud, 

 apiiroach closely the following. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Pensylvania. Kalm." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Xolisma ligustrina foliosiflora (Michx.) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:24. 1897, 

 Andromeda jKiniculala var. foliosiflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 255. 1803. 

 Andromeda frondosa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 295. 1814. 

 lyyonia frondosa Nutt. Gen. 1 : 266. 1818, 



