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ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to Coast plain. Alluvial woods, low shaded banks of 

 streams. Lauderdale, Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Clarke, and Mobile coun- 

 ties. Flowers white, fragrant; May. A rooting climber ascending high trees. Fre- 

 quent. 



Type locality : "Hab. an in Africa? Schreber." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



GROSSULARIACEAE. 

 RIBBS L. Sp. PI. 1 : 200. 1753. 



About 60 species, mostly of the north temperate zone and. in the Andes. North 

 America 46, mostly Western. East of the Rocky Mountains, 14. 



Ribes curvata Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 295. 1896. 



Armed with subulate spines ; leaves orbicular, smoothish, f inch to 4 inches in diame- 

 ter, 3-lobed, on short petioles, the Jobes toothed; flowers small, solitary, on short 

 twisted pedicels subtended by two 3-lobed ciliate bractlets; calyx segments linear, 

 reflexed and recurved, whitish; petals oblong, obtuse, white; stamens conspicuous, 

 anthers red; berries globose, i to 4 inch in diameter, black. A low diffuse shrub 2 

 to 2 feet high, with purplish recurved or conspicuously drooping branchlets. Flow- 

 ers early in May ; fruit matures July. 



Carolinian area. Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Marshall County, near Short Creek (G. C. Boynton). 



Type locality : " On the slopes of Stone Mountain, Georgia." 



Herb. Biltmore. 



Ribes cynosbati L. Sp. PI. 1 : 202. 1753. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 175. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 148. 



JAPAN. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New Brunswick, along the mountains to 

 Georgia, west to Minnesota and Missouri. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rocky woods, Marshall County, rare. 



Type locality : "Hab in Canada. Kahn." 



Herb. Biltmore. 



HAMAMELIDACEAE. Witch Hazel Family. 



FOTHERGILLA Murr. Syst. Yeg. 418. 1774. 

 Two species, Asia (Himalayas). Atlantic North America. 



Fothergilla Carolina (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 180. 1894. 



CAROLINA FOTHERGILLA. 



Hamamelis virginiana Carolina L. Mant. 2 : 333. 1771. 



Father (f ilia (jardeni Murr. Syst. Veg. 418. 1774. 



F. alnifolia'L. f. Suppl. 267. 1781. 



F. major Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 1520. 1825-33. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 547. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 180. Chap. Fl. 157. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia and North Carolina to 

 Florida. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Central Prairie belt. Swampy borders of streams. 

 L-uiderdale County, Florence (M. C. Wilson}. Cullman County, rocky banks (Miss 

 E. Mohr). Autauga County, Prattville. Marshall County, banks of Short Creek; 

 May 22, in fruit (G. C. Boynton). Flowers white, stamens tinged with pink, appear- 

 ing before the leaves; March, April. Local, rare; shrub rarely over 3 feet high. 



Type locality not given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HAMAMELIS L. Sp. PI. 1:124. 1753. 



Three species. Japan. Atlantic North America. 

 Hamamelis virginiana L. Sp. PI. 1 : 124. 1753, WITCH HAZEL. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 219. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 179. Chap. FL 157. Sargent, Sil v. N. A. 5 : 3, t. 19S. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Onta- 

 rio; New England (Mount Desert Island, Maine) west to Michigan and Nebraska, 

 south to northern Florida and eastern Texas. (Sargent). 



ALABAMA: Throughout the State. Damp woods. Flowers yellow, October, 

 November; fruit ripe June, July. Shrub, rarely a small tree, 10 to 12 feet high. 



