etc." 



LINDEN FAMILY. 613 



ALABAMA: Upper division Coast Pine belt. Clarke County, Lisbon, calcareous 

 bluffs on the Alabama River. Flowers in June. Rare. 



Economic uses: Important for its resistance to the ravages of the Phylloxera, 

 hence largely used in Europe as a stock for grafting those varieties of Vitis vinifera 

 upon which are specially liable to destruction by the insect plague. 



Type locality: "Ha-b. ad ripas et in insulis fluviorum O'hio, Mississippi, 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vitis rotundifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 231. 1803. BULLACE GRAPE. MUSCADINE. 



Vitis rulpina Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 245. 1838. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 687. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 114. Chap. Fl. 71. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia, southern Kentucky, Tennessee to 

 Florida, west to Louisiana, western Texas, and southern Missouri. 



ALABAMA : Over the State except on ridges of an elevation exceeding 1,000 or 

 1,200 feet. In light sandy soil, low woods and banks. Flowers second week of May 

 to June. Fruit ripe August to September. Berries large, plum-purple. Plants of 

 spontaneous growth have been observed near Mobile bearing light amber-colored 

 berries. In rich bottom lands climbing high trees. Most common throughout the 

 Coast Pine belt. 



Economic uses: Important as a table and wine grape. Mother plant of the Scup- 

 pernong, Thomas, and Flowers grapes. 



Type locality : "Hab. a Virginia ad Floridam." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



TILIACEAE. Linden Family. 

 TILIA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 514. 1753. 



About 12 species, temperate and cooler regions of Northern Hemisphere. North 

 America, 3. Trees. 



Tilia americana L. Sp. PI. 1 : 514. 1753. BASSWOOD. LINDEN. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 2. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 101. Chap. Fl. 59. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 46. 

 Sargent, Silv. N. A. 1 : 52, t. 24, 25. 



Canadian zone to Louisianiau area. New Brunswick and Quebec to Manitoba; 

 New England west to Minnesota and Nebraska, south to Georgia, Texas, and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Upper division Coast Pine belt. Rich woods. Cull- 

 man, 600 feet. Blount County, Warnock Mountain, 1,000 feet. Madison County, 

 Gurley. Clarke County (Dr. Denny}. Flowers white, fragrant. A large timber 

 tree in the mountains, of inferior size southward. Not common. 



Economic uses : Timber tree. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia, Canada." 



Herl). Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Tilia heterophylla Vent. Mem. Acad. Par. 4 : 16, t. 5. 1802. SILVER-LEAF LINDEN. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 101. Chap. Fl. 60. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 1 : 57, t. 28, 29. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Pennsylvania along the mountains to Georgia 

 and Florida. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to Central Prairie region. Rich woods. Cullman 

 County (Baker <$ Earle). Franklin County, Russellville. Madison County, Hunts- 

 ville. Clarke County, Thomasville. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 







CORCHORUS L. Sp. PI. 2 : 746, ed. 3. 1764. 

 About 35 species, tropical regions of Asia and America. Africa. 



Corchorus hirtus glabellus Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 1, pt. 1 : 342. 1897. 



CAP-PODDED CORCHORUS. 



Corchorus pilolobus Gray, PL Wright. 1 : 24. 1852. Not Link. 



C. siliquosus Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 239. 1838. Not L. 



Gray, Gen. 111. 2 : 94, t. 137. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 55. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 45. 



Louisianian area. Coast of Florida to Texas; Arizona; Mexico. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Cultivated ground. Tuscaloosa 

 County (E. A. Smith). Mobile County (Gates). Flowers yellow, August, September; 

 not rare. Weed, annual. 



Type locality : " Florida to southern Texas and Arizona. (Mexico)/' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



