608 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Aesculus pavia L. Sp. PI. 1 : 344. 1753. KKD BUCKEYE. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 435. Gray. Man. ed. 6, 116. Chap. Fl. 79. 



Carolinian and Louisianian area. Pennsylvania and southeastern Virginia south 

 to Florida, west to Louisiana, Arkansas, and southern Missouri. 



ALABAMA : Throughout the State, below 800 feet altitude. Borders of open copses 

 m moderately fertile soil. Madison, County, Huutsville. Tuscaloosa, Montgomery 

 Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers scarlet, March, April ; fruit ripe ( )ctober. 

 On the hills of the Tennessee Valley, frequently 10 to 12 feet liigh. Most common 

 in the open rich copses of the Coast plain, there a shrub, rarely over 8 feet high. 



Economic uses : Ornamental. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina, Brasilia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Aesculus parviflora Walt. Fl. Car. 128. 1788. SPIKED BUCKEYE. 



Aescnlus macrostachya Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 220. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 436. Chap. Fl. 80. 



Carolinian and Louisianian area. Mountain region to Upper division Coast Pine 

 belt. Shady hillsides and wooded banks. Clay County, Shinbone Valley, 800 to 

 1,000 feet. Blount County, 450 feet. Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Henry, and Franklin 

 counties. Monroe County, Claiborne. Flowers white, June; fruit ripe in October. 

 Shrub 4 to 8 feet high ; frequent. 



Economic uses: Highly ornamental. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SAPLNDACEAE. Soapberry Family. 



CARDIOSFERMUM L. Sp. PI. 1 : 366. 1753. 



Four species of tropical America. 

 Cardiospermum halicacabum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 366. 1753. BALLOON VINE. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 460. Chap. Fl. 79. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 122. 



EAST AND WEST INDIES. 



Louisianiaii area. South Carolina, Florida, and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Central Pine belt. Thickets. Clay County, Moseley. 

 Autauga County, Prattville (Dr. J. Smith). Bibb County (E. A. Smith). An old 

 escape from cultivation. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Indiis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



SAPINDUS L. Sp. PI. 1 : 367. 1753. 



Sapindus marginatus Willd. Enum. PI. 432. 1809. 



Chap. Fl. 79. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 66. WILD CHINA. SOAPHERRY. 



MEXICO. 



Louisianian area. Louisiana, Mississippi?, Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico (Iowa?, 

 Kansas?). 



ALABAMA : Mobile. Adventive near an old place in the pine hills on the road to the 

 Bienville waterworks; most probably an escape from cultivation. Hale County, 

 Gallion. Cultivated and spontaneous by escape. Tree 20 to 25 feet high. Flowers 

 June ; fruit October, black. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



RH AMNACEAE. Buckthorn Family. 

 BERCHEMIA Necker, Elem. 2 : 122. 1790. 



Ten species, East Indies. Southeastern North America. 



Berchemia scandens (Hill) Trelease in Trans. St. Louis Acad. 5 : 364. 1889. 



SUPPLE JACK. RATTAN VINE- 



Ehamnus scandens Hill, Hort. Kew. 453, t. 20. 1768. 

 E. volubilis L. f. Suppl. 132. 1781. 

 Berchemia rolulilis DC. Prodr. 2 : 22. 1825. 



Ell. Sk. 1:290. Gray, Man. ed. (I, 111. Chap. Fl. 73. Coulter, Contr. Nut. Herb. 

 2:59. 



