552 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Prunus injucunda Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25 : 149. 1898. 



Carolinian area. Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region, rocky summits. Tallatlega County, among sandstone 

 cliffs, Alpine Mountain, near the Signal Station, September, 1892. Without fruit. 



Type locality: " In sandy soil on the granite districts about Stone Mountain, Ga." 



Prunus gracilis Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Jonru. Nat. Hist. 5 :243. 1847. 



Low PLUM. 



Carolinian area. Tennessee, Kansas, Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphie hills. Sandy open copses. Dekalb 

 County. Lookout Mountain, near Mentone. Lee County (Baker y- .Kurle). Low 

 shrub. Flowers in March. Infrequent. 



Type locality : "Open post-oak woods west of the Brazos." 



Prunus serotina Ehrh. Beitr. 3 : 20. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1: 541. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 152. Chap. Fl. 120. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 



2 : 103. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 4 : 50, 1. 159. 

 MEXICO. PERU, COLOMBIA. 



Canadian zone to Louisianiaii area. Newfoundland, Ontario, and Manitoba; New 

 England west to Dakota, south to Florida, and throughout the Gulf States to Texas 

 and Arizona; mountains of Mexico. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Scattered through the mountains, more rarely in the 

 lower districts, where it is scarcely indigenous, disseminated by birds. Flowers 

 white, March, April; fruit ripe in June, black, palatable. 



Economic uses : A most valuable timber tree. The inner bark is the " wild cherry 

 bark," "Prunus virginiaua," of the United States Pharmacopoeia. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Prunus serotina neo-montana (Small) Sud worth, Nomencl. Arb. Fl. U. S. 245. 1897. 



MOUNTAIN BLACK CHERRY. 



Cerasus serotina var. montana Small, Mem. Torr. Club, 4 : 114. 1893. 



Prunus serotina montana Britt. Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 357. 1894. Not Prunus montana 

 Marsh., 1785, nor Koch, 1854. 



Allegheniau and Carolinian areas. Southwestern Virginia to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Open rocky summits of the higher ranges. Talla- 

 dega County, Alpine Mountain, near the flagstaff station, 1,800 to 2,000 feet; first 

 observed in*1892. Clay County, Che-aw-ha Mountain, bare cliffs, 2,400 feet; July 31, 

 fruit not quite mature. Tree 25 to 35 feet high, bark very rough and with drooping 

 branches. 



Type locality: " On the "balds" near the summit of White Top Mountain, 5,500 

 feet altitude, southwestern A'irginia. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Prunus alabamensis sp. nov. ALABAMA CHERRY. 



A tree below medium size, 25 to 30 feet high, and scarcely over 6 inches in diameter ; 



leaves rather thick, broadly ovate, rounded or slightly narrowed at the base, from 



3 to 4 inches long and 1 to i| inches wide, short-acuminate, blunt or acutish, bluntly 

 serrate, with the teeth rather distant and close adpressed, glandular-tipped, smooth 

 and of a deep green above, dull on the lower surface, and finely pubescent by short 

 simple or forked hairs, which along the midrib and principal veinlets become longer, 

 villous, and more dense, the veiulets somewhat dark, prominent; racemes elongated, 

 strict, erect (neVr drooping), the rachis and pedicels, like the calyx, closely pubes- 

 cent. 



In the specimens from Red Mountain the petals already withered were mostly shed. 

 Drupe reddish to black, the few seen in shape and size similar to those of Pnnnt* 

 serotina. 



The trunk is clear of limbs for the height of about 8 to 10 feet, the limbs spreading 

 and finally inclined to be drooping. 



A distinct species readily recognized by the characters of the leaves and inflores- 

 cence as described. 



Carolinian area. Georgia (Meriwether County, Jieadle, 1899). 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Red Mountain, near Birmingham, on the benches of 

 siliceous ferruginous strata, about 1,000 to 1,200 feet altitude; just past flowering 

 May 11, 1898. Talladega County, Childersburg (Biltmore Herb. 1899). 



Prunus caroliniana Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 540. 1789. 



MOCK ORANGE. LAUREL CHERRY. WILD PEACH. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 540. Chap. Fl. 120. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 103. Sargent, Silv. 

 N. A. 4 : 50, t. 160. 



