604 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Type locality : "Damp woods, Taeouir and Catskill Mountains, New York, and 

 Alleghenies from Pennsylvania southward." 

 Herb. Gool. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hex monticola mollis (Gray) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 217. 1894. 



Ilex mollis Gray, Man. ed. 5, 306. 1867. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 108. 



Carolinian area. Alleghenies from Pennsylvania to North Carolina and Tennessee. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lee County, Auburn (F. S. Earle). Rare. 



Type locality : " Burgoons Gap, Alleghenies of Pennsylvania (/. R. Lowrie, PorUr), 

 and along the mountains in the Southern States." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Ilex coriacea (Puish) Chap. Fl. 270. 1860. TALL INKBERRY. 



Prinos coriacens Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 221. 1814. 



Hex lucida Torr. & Gray ; Wats. Bibl. Ind. 159. 1878. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 708. Chap. Fl. 270. 



Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida to eastern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Swamps along piue-barreu streams. Lee County, Auburn 

 (Baker <f* Earle). Baldwin County, Point Clear. Mobile County. Flowers white, 

 April; fruit ripe in September and October, shining black. Tall evergreen shrub 

 8 to 15 feet high ; frequent. 



Type locality: " In sandy woods, near the banks of rivers: Georgia. Enslen." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hex glabra (L.) Gray, Man. ed. 2, 264. 1856. INKBERRY. 



Prinos gldber L. Sp. PL 1 : 330. 1753. 



Ell. Sk.' 2 : 707. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 109. Chap. Fl. 270. 



Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisianian areas. Nova Scotia on the seashore; 

 coast of Massachusetts south to Virginia and Florida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Low sandy pine barrens. Antauga 

 and Elmore counties. Macon Connty, south to Mobile and Baldwin counties. 

 Flowers white, May; fruit ripe in October, black, remaining over winter. Ever- 

 green shrub 3 to 4 feet high; common, in the flat pine woods along the coast. 



Economic uses : Like most of the species of the genus, a good bee plant. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Canada. Kalm." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Ilex verticillata (L.) Gray, Man. ed. 2, 264. 1856. BLACK ALDER. WINTER BERRY. 



Prinos verticillatus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 330. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 706. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 109. Chap. Fl. 270. 



Alleghenian to Louisiauian area. New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, west to 

 southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, south to Florida, and along the Gulf to 

 Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Throughout the State. Low banks of streams, alluvial swamps. 

 Cullman County, 800 feet. Montgomery County. Baldwin County, Stockton. 

 Flowers dull white, April; fruit ripe in October; drupes scarlet. Deciduous shrub 

 6 to 10 feet high. Nowhere abundant. Some forms of this polymorphous shrub might 

 be referred to the var. padifolia (Willd., Torr. & Gray). 



Economic uses: The bark was officially recognized in earlier editions of the United 

 States Pharmacopoeia under the name of black alder bark. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CELASTRACEAE. Staff-tree Family 



EUONYMUS L. Sp. PI. 197. 1753. STAFF TREE. 



About 60 species, temperate regions, mountains of India, China, Japan, Europe. 

 North America, 3. 



Euoiiymus americanus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 197. 1753. STRAWBERRY HUSH. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 292. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 110. Chap. Fl. 76. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York, West Virginia, and Tennessee to 

 Florida, west to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Central Pine belt. Light soil, on shady banks and 

 in woodlands. Clay County, banks of Talladega Creek, 800 to 1,000 feet. Lee 



