STORAX FAMILY. 065 



Alabama : Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Metamorphic hills. Rich banks 

 of streams. Lauderdale County (^1/. C. Hj/so?*)- Cullman County, 800 feet. Talla- 

 dega County, Chandlers Springs, 1,000 feet. Flowers white, April ; I'ruit ripe Septem- 

 ber and October. Tree 40 to 60 feet high and from 12 to 24 inches in diameter. 

 Frequent throughout the lower Mountain region. 



Economic uses: An ornamental tree. 



Type locality not given. Locality of H. tetraptera : " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb.Mohr. 



Mohrodendron dipterum (L.) Britton, Gard. &. For. 6:463. 1893. 



Southern Silver-bell Tree. Snowdrop Tree. 



Halesia diptera Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 636. 1762. 



Ell. Sk. 1:508. Chap. Fl. 271. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2. pt. 1: 71. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 

 6 : 23, /. :2ol. 



Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida to eastern Louisiana. 



Alabama: Upper division Coast Pine belt to the Coast plain. Swampy river 

 banks. Clarke County (i'r. i)er!H^). Mobile County. Flowers white, March to tirst 

 week in April, appearing with the leaves just unfolding; fruit ripe .July. Tree 20 

 to 25 feet liigli, 6 to 8 inches in diameter. Most frequent in the Coast plain. 



Economic uses: Ornamental. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Carolina. D. Garden." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



STYRAX L. Sp. PI. 1 : 444. 1753. 



About 70 species, warmer temperate aud tropical regions of both hemispheres, 

 Asia and America. North America, 5. Small trees or shrubs. 



Styrax americana Lam. Encycl. 1 : 82. 1783. American Stukax. 



Styrax laeris Walt. Fl. Car. 140. 1788. 



S. (jiabium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 41. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 506 or 507. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 334. Chap. Fl. 271. (Jrav, Syn, Fl. N. A. 2, 

 pt. 1:71. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, west to Louisiana, Ar- 

 kansas, and southern Missouri. 



Alabama : Mountain region. Coast plain. Swampy thickets and alluvial forests. 

 Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 1,600 feet. Cullman County. Lee County, 

 Auburn (Earle i)- Underwood). Baldwin County, Stockton, in swampy forests of the 

 river delta. Flowers white, fragrant; March, April. Not rare. Slender shrub, 4 to 

 6 feet high. 



Type locality: " Cetto arbrisseau crott dans I'Amerhiue septentrion;ile." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Styrax pulverulenta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 41. 1803. Powdery Storax. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 506. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 334. Chap. Fl. 271. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 2.58. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 72. 



Louisianian area. Southeastern Virginia aud North Carolina, along the coast to 

 Florida, west to eastern Texas and Arkansas. 



Al.\bama: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Pine-barren swamps. Washington, 

 Baldwin, and Mobile counties. PTowers white, April. Frei[uent in the Coast plain. 

 Low, rarely over 2^ feet high. 



Type locality: "Hab. in sylvis Carolinae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Styrax grandifolia Ait. Uort. Kew. 2 : 75. 1789. Laroe-klowrred Storax. 



Sti/rax f/randiflornm Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 41. 1803. 



Ell.Sk;i:50o. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 331. Chap. Fl. 271. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 2, pt. 

 1:72. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southeastern \'irginia (?) and North Carolina, 

 south and west to Louisiana. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. Coast Pine belt. Shady bor- 

 ders of woods. Lee County, Autiurn (Baker i(- AVoZe, 342). Choctiiw County, Mount 

 Sterling. Clarki^ (.'oiiuty (I>r. Denny). Monroe; and Baldwin counties. Mobile 

 County, Mount ^'ernon. Flowers white, April. Not infrequent. Shrub 10 to 12 

 feet high. 



Economic uses: Ornamental like the oihers of tlic sann; genus. 



Type locality : "Native of South Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



