508 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Asimina pygmaea (Bartram) Gray, Bot. Gaz. 11 : 164. 1886. Not Dunal. 1817. 



Low ASIMINA. 



Anona pygmaea Bartram, Travels, 18, 1. 1. 1791. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 43. Chap. PI. 15. 



Louisiauian area. Georgia and Florida. 



ALABAMA : Upper division of Coast Pine belt. Dale County (E. A. Smith). Flowers 

 white, August; rare. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina et Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sand hills near "the ferry on St. Hie about sixty miles south of the Altamaha." 



RANUNCULACEAE. Crowfoot Family. 



HYDRASTIS L. Syst. ed. 10, 1088. 1759. 



Two species. Atlantic North America, Japan. Perennial herbs. 



Hydrastis canadensis L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1: 784. 1762. 



YELLOWROOT. YELLOW Prccoov. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 48. Chap. Fl. 11. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 56. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. South w'estern Ontario, New York to Wisconsin, 

 Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and the Ohio Valley, south along the mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to the Coast Pine belt. Rich shady woods. Cullman 

 County. Chilton County, Knight's Ferry. Flowers greenish white, April ; rare. 

 Perennial. 



Economic uses: The root is the " golden seal" or " Hydrastis" of the IT. S. Phar- 

 macopoeia. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Canadae aquis.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ISOP YRUM L. Sp. PL 1 : 557. 1753. 



Seven species, temperate zones North Hemisphere. Europe, eastern Asia. Peren- 

 nial herbs. 



Isopyrum biternatum (Raf.) Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 660. 1840. 



MOUNTAIN WIND FLOWER. 



Enemion biternatnm Raf. Journ. Phys. 91 : 70. 1820. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 44. Chap. Fl. 9. Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 40. 



Allegheuian and Carolinian areas. Ontario, southwestern Virginia to Minnesota, 

 south to North Carolina. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to Lower hills. Rich shady woods and banks. Lauder- 

 dale County, Florence, bluffs of the Tennessee River. Tuscaloosa and Cullman 

 counties. Flowers white, February, March. Not infrequent; perennial. 



Type locality: Kentucky (Short). 

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erb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ZANTHORHIZA L'Her. Stirp. Nov. 79. 1784. 



One species, Atlantic North America. A low shrub. 

 Zanthorhiza apiifolia L'Her. Stirp. Nov. 79, t. 34. 1784. SHRUB YELLOWROOT. 



Ell. Sk. 1:377. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 48. Chap. FLU. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 50. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Allegheny Mountains, from southwestern New 

 York to Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to Lower Pine region, most frequent in the mountains. 

 Shaded banks of brooks. Clay County, waterfall near Pulpit Rock, 2,200 feet. Cull- 

 man, Madison, Tuscaloosa, Clarke, Choctaw, and Mobile counties. 



Shrub i to 1 foot high. 



Economic uses: The root, known as "yellow root," is used medicinally and as a 

 dye. 



Type locality :" Hab. in Georgia. Bartram. Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ACT ABA L. Sp. PL 1 : 504. 1753. 



Two species, temperate regions Northern Hemisphere. Europe, Atlantic North 

 America. 



