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ALABAMA : Mountain region. Rich shady woods. Blount County, Warnock Moun- 

 tain, 1,500 feet altitude. April, May; infrequent. 

 Type locality (Beck, Bot. U. S.) : " Shady woods. Missouri].' 1 



Trillium erectum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 340. 1753. ILL-SCENTED WAKE-ROBIN. 



Trillium pendulum Willd. Neue Schrift. 3 : 421. 1801. 



T.r/fow&oirfewwMichx.Fl. Bor. Am. 1:215. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 427. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 530. Chap. Fl. 478. 



EAST SIBERIA, JAPAN. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia and Ontario; from New England, 

 throughout the Ohio Valley, to Missouri, south along the mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Woods. Jefferson County. Flowers white. April; in- 

 frequent. 



Economic uses : The rhizomas of this, T. sessile and T. cernuum, are indiscriminately 

 collected for medicinal use under the name of birth-root. Used by the aborigines, 

 and now in eclectic practice. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Trillium stylosum Nutt.Gen. 1: 239. 1818. CATESBY'S WAKE-ROBIN. 



Trillium catesbaei Ell. Sk. 1 : 429, and T. nervosum Ell. 1. c. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 479. 



Carolinian area. Mountains of Carolina and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rich shaded banks. Dekalb County, Mentone, 1,600 

 feet. Auburn County (F. S. Earle}. 



Type locality: " Upper Carolina and Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Trillium recurvatum laiiceolatum Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14 : 273. 1879. 

 Trillium laiiceolatum Boykiu, name onlj r , in Herb. Torr. 

 Chap. Fl. Suppl. 656; ed. 3, 505. 

 Carolinian area. Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Ascribed to this State by Chapman, Flora, 1. c. 

 Type locality: " Georgia and Alabama." 



Trillium cernuum L. Sp. PL 1:339. 1753. NODDING TRILLIUM. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 428. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 531. Chap. Fl. 478. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario; New 

 England south to New Jersey along the mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers March, April. 

 Rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



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



Two species, perennials, Eastern Asia, North America. Atlantic America, 2. 

 Aletris farinosa L. Sp. PI. 1 : 319. 1753. WHITE STAR GRASS. 



Aletr is alba Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 189. 1803. 



Ell. Sk 1 : 398. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 513. Chap. Fl. 470. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario and New England west to Minnesota, 

 from New York south to Florida, west to Arkansas and Missouri. 



ALABAMA : Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Damp light soil, prairies, borders 

 of swamps; most frequent in the pine barrens. Autauga County, Prattville. Chil- 

 ton, Washington, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers white. May, June; 

 frequent. 



Economic uses: The root, as " colic root," is used medicinally. 



Type locality: " Hab. in America septentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Aletris aurea Walt. Fl. Car. 121. 1788. GOLDEN STAR GRASS. 



Ell. Sk. 1:399. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 513. Chap. Fl. 470. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Pine barrens. New Jersey along the coast to 

 Florida, west to eastern Texas. 

 ALABAMA : Coast Pine belt to the Coast plain. Low damp pine barrens. Wash- 



