440 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



L. superbum var. carolinianum Chap. Fl. 484. 1860. 



Ell. 8k. 1:388. Chap. Fl. 484. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi, 

 Louisiana, and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Lower Pine belt. Dry woods. Cullman County. 

 Shelby County (E. A. Smith). Mobile County. Flowers orange vermilion witli small 

 brown spots. July; not rare. 



Type locality : " Hab. in herbosis humidis Carolinae inferioris." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lilium catesbaei Walt. Fl. Car. 123. 1788. CATKSBY'S LILY. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 387. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 529. Chap. Fl. 484. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi 

 and southern Missouri. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low wet pine barrens. Mobile and Baldwin counties. 

 Flowers scarlet, with orange. July; not rare. 



Type locality : " South Carolina." 



Herb. Mohr. 



ERYTHRONIUM L. Sp. PI. 1 : 305. 1753. 



Seven species, perennials, north temperate zone, Japan. North America, 5. Atlantic 

 States, 2. 



Erythronium americanum Ker-Gawl. Bot. Mag. 27: 1. 1113. 1808. 



YELLOW ADDER'S TONOUK. 



Erythronium dens-canis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 198. 1803. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 389. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 528. Chap. Fl. 484. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia and Ontario; New England west 

 to Minnesota, Missouri, and Arkansas; New York to the Ohio Valley; south to mid- 

 dle Florida. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Rich shaded banks. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). 

 March to April. Flowers yellow, spotted brown. Rare. 



Type locality of E. dens-canis Michx. : " Hab. in frigidioribus Americae septentri- 

 onalis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



QUAMASIA Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 2 : 265. 1818. 

 (CAMASSIA Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.1486. 1832.) 



Four species, perennials, North American. Eastern 1, Pacific 3. 



Quamasia esculenta (Ker-Gawl.) Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11 : 65. 1897. 



WILD HYACINTH. 



Scilla esculenta Ker-Gawl. Bot. Mag. 38 : t. 1574. 1813. 



Phalangium esculentum Nutt. ; Ker-Gawl. Bot. Mag. 38: t.1574. 1813. As synonym. 



Lemotrys h(/acinthina Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3 : 51. 1836. 



Camassia fraseri Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 2 [pt. 4] : 176. 1855. 



Scilla fraseri Gray, Man. ed. 2, 469. 1856. 



Quamasia hyacinthina Brit ton in Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 423. 1896. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 523. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 656. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 435. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario; Pennsylvania to Minnesota and 

 through the Ohio Valley to Missouri, south along the lower mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Prairie region. Rich copses. Surnter County, Livingston (E. A. 

 Smith). Flowers lilac. April ; infrequent. 



Type locality : According to F. V. Coville, op. cit., the type specimens probably 

 came from near St. Louis, Mo. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



YUCCA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 319. 1753. 



About 1 dozen species, of warmer and temperate Mexico, Central America, and 

 North America; arid plains of the Lower Sonoran area to the Pacific. East of the 

 Mississippi River 2 species. 



Yucca aloifolia L. Sp. PI. 1 : 319. 1753. SPANISH I )AGGER. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 401. Chap. Fl. 485. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 582. 

 MEXICO, WEST INDIES. 

 Louisianian area. North Carolina along the coast to Florida and Louisiana. 



