476 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Carolinian and Lonisianian areas. Northwestern and central Texas and southern 

 Arkansas 



ALABAMA: Introduced from the Southwest, and frequently cultivated for hedges. 

 Not rarely naturalized about fields and dwellings, chiefly in the Prairie region. 

 Flowers in April. Fruit ripe in October. 



Economic uses: Valuable for the wood; hedge plant. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BROUSSONETIA L'Herit.; Vent, Tabl. 3:547. 1799. 



Two species, China, Japan. Trees. 

 Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) Vent. Tabl. 3:548. 1799. PAPER MULBERRY. 



Morus papyrifera L. Sp. PI. 2 : 986. 1753. 



Introduced from Japan. Frequently cultivated in the Southern States as a shade 

 tree; not infrequently of spontaneous growth, and difficult to eradicate. 



ALABAMA : Mobile and Montgomery counties. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Japonia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



MORUS L.Sp.P1.986. 1753. MULBERRY. 



Ten species, temperate Northern Hemisphere, tropical mountains. United States 

 and Canada, 2. Deciduous trees. 



Morus rubra L. Sp. PL 2 : 986. 1753. RED M ULBERRY. 



Ell. Sk. 2 :574. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 464. Chap. Fl. 415. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 408. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 7 : 79, t. 320. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern Ontario ; New England, west to Dakota, 

 Nebraska, and Kansas, south to the Gnlf States ; from Florida to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Throughout the State, in low rich woods, to the delta of Mobile River. 

 Baldwin County, Stockton. Mobile County, Mount Vernon. Flowers March ; fruit 

 ripe in July. Not common. 



A large tree in the upper division of the State. 



Economic uses: Timber tree. The berries are edible. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Morus alba L. Sp. PI. 2 : 986. 1753. WHITE MULBERRY. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 574. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 464. Chap. Fl. 415; ed. 3,438. 



Introduced from Europe, occasionally spontaneous around dwellings. Mobile 

 County. 



Economic uses: The form known as Moras multicaulis was at one time largely cul- 

 tivated for silkworms. 



Type locality : "Hab. in China." 



CANNABIS L. Sp. PL 2 : 1027. 1783. 



Annual. East India, Europe. 



Cannabis sativa L. Sp. PL 2 : 1027. 1753. HEMP. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 463. 



Rarely adventive on ballast. Mobile County. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in India." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. 



HUMULUS L. Sp. PL 2 : 1028. 1753. HOP. 



Two species, temperate regions of the globe. Japan. North America, 1. Peren- 

 nial climbing herbs. 



Humulus lupulus L. Sp. PL 2 : 1028. 1753. COMMON HOP PLANT. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 695. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 464. Chap. FL 414. 



EUROPE. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario to Manitoba and British Columbia, 

 New England and throughout the Eastern States. 



ALABAMA : Hills, borders of woods near dwellings. Scarcely indigenous. Cull- 

 man County. Flowers greenish ; July, August. 



