{M\{\ I'LANT MKK <>F ALABAMA. 



SYMPLOCACEAE. Sweetleaf Family. 



SYMPLOCOS Ti. Sp. i'l.(Ml.2. 1: 717. 17(1:?. 



.\)>()nt 17.") species, suhtropical .iml tiopir.-i] rc;rions, ('.•isterii Asi.i, and South Amer- 

 ica to Ura/il. North America, 1. 



Syniplocos tinctoria (L.) L'Her. Trims. Linn. Soc 1 : 17t>. HiU. 



lloR.'^K Si CAi;. Swkkti.kak. 



lli)])V(i tinctoria L. Mant. 1 : 10."). 1707. 



Kll. Sk. 2 : 173. Gray. Man. etl. 6, 3:^;"). Cliap. Kl. '2T2. ( Jray, Syn. !■ 1. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 

 70. Sar-ioiit. Silv. N. .\.6: 1;"). Z.^.^'. 



Carolinian ami Lonisianian areas. Delaware to Tennessee, North Carolina (3,000 

 feet altitndet, (Jeorjjia, Florida, west to Loui.siana. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley to the Coast i)]ain. Low woods, swampy banks of 

 streams. Morjjjan County, Falkville. Cullman, Monroe. I>;il<lwin, and 5lobi]e coun 

 ties. Flowers yellow, fragrant : March, April. Fruit ripe in Aiif^ust and Septeml)er; 

 yellowish hrowu. .V shnih, or fre([iiently a small tree 15 to 20 feet hiith ; leaves ))ar- 

 tiaily ])er8istent, of sweet taste, mueli lelished hy horses and cattle. The fragrant 

 flowers are \i8ited hy hosts of hymeuopterous insects. 



Eionomic uses: The leaves are nsed for dyeing. 



'Type locality : " Hah. in ( "arolina." 



llerh. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



OLEACEAE. Olive Family. 



FRAXINUS L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1057. 1753. 



About 40 species, trees, north temperate zone, Europe, Asia. North America, 12. 

 Fraxiiius americaua L. Sp. I'l. 2: 10.57. 1753. Whitk Ash. 



Fraxiniis alba Marsh. Arb. 51 1785. 



/•'. acuminata Lam. fc^ncyel. 2 : 542. 1786. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 072. (iray. Man. ed. 6. 335. Chap. F1. 309. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 74. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 6 : 43, t. fiGS. 



AUegheniau, Carolinian, and Lonisianian are.is. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 Quebec, Ontario; New England, west to northern Minnesota, Nebraska, and 

 Arkansas; southern Ohio Valley to the Gulf, and from Florida to Louisiana. 



Ai.akama: Over tli<! State. Hieh woodlands, above overflow. At greatest per- 

 fection in the Tennessee Valley and .-iboiit the upper waters of the Toml)ighee and 

 Alabama rivers; frei|uent. 



As has been observed in many localities in the Gulf States, the fruit of the south- 

 ern tree is more slender and of smaller size than northward, in barren localities 

 passing freely into the following form. 



Economic uses: Important timber tree. The inner bark is nsed in domestic 

 medicine. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Carolina, Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Siirv. 



Fraxinus americana curtissii ( Vasey) Sudworth, Nomenc. Arb. Fl. U. S. 327. 18i»7. 



SMALL-FIU'ITKI) WllIlK Asii. 



Fraxinnn albicans Buckley, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1862 : 4. 1802. In i)iirt. 



F. cartinsii Vasey, Rep. C<>m. Agr. 1875 : 108. 1876. 



F. americana var. microrarpa Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1:75. 1878. 



Carolinian and Lonisianian areas. Tennessee. 



Alaijama: Tennessee Valley. Prairie region. Morgan County, Cedar Plains. 

 Madison County, near Huntsville. rocky foothills with red cedar. Eufanla (Ciirtiss). 



As observed in northern Alabama a tree below medium size, differing strikingly 

 in aspect from the typical form; the bark dark and very rough, the low spreading 

 branches droojjing. Fruit about half the size of that of the type, often abortive. 



Type locality : " Eufala, Ala." Curtiss. 



Herb. Mohr. 



Fraxinus biltmoreana Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 25 : 3.58, 1898. Biltmore Ash. 



Younger shoots pubescent. Leaves 8 to 12 inches long, leaflets 7 to 9, ovate to 

 oblong-ovate, acuminate, sometimes falcately rounded and inecjuilateral at the 1)ase, 

 entire or obscurely denticulate, pubescent especially alo.ig the veins; petioles 

 finely pubesL'ent; samaras in open, nearly glabrous panicles, from 1 J to 2 inches long, 

 i inch wide, the wing from 2 to 3 times the length of the elliptical, namargined, 

 many-nerved body. 



