HEATH FAMILY. 655 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England, along the coast to 

 Florida, west to Arkansas and southwestern Missouri. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Borders of wooded swamps. Mobile 

 and Bald win counties. Flowers rose-pink ; April. Frequent. Shrub 4 to 8 feet high. 



Type locality : " Hal), in Pensylvania. Kalm." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Leucothoe recurva (Buckl.) Gray, Man. ed. 2, 252. 1856. 



RECURVED ANDROMEDA. 



Andromeda recurva Buckl. Am. Journ. Sci. 45 : 172. 1843. 



Carolinian area. Mountains of Virginia to North Carolina and Tennessee. 



ALABAMA : Credited to the State in Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 35. 



Type locality: " Mountains near Paint Rock, Tennessee, and the warm springs, 

 North Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PIERIS Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17 : 159. 1834. 



About 12 species, Himalayan India, Japan, Cuba. North America, 4. Shrubs. 

 Pieris nitida (Bartr.) Benth. & Hook. Gen. PL 2 : 588. 1876. SHINING FETTER-BUSH. 



Andromeda nitida Bartram ; Marsh. Arb. Am. 8. 1788. 



Chap. Fl. 263. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 32. 



CUBA. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi and eastern 

 Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Open boggy pine barrens. Swampy 

 borders of rivulets. Flowers rose-pink; April. 



Type locality: " This shrub grows naturally in Carolina and Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Pieris phillyreaefolia (Hook.) DC. Prodr. 7:599. 1839. Low ANDROMEDA. 



Andromeda pliillyreaefolia Hook. Icon. 1. 122. 1837. 



Chap. Fl. 262. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 31. 



Louisianian area. Western Florida. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low sandy banks of pine-barren streams. Mobile County, 

 on Bayou d'Eau Douce. Flowers white, February 18. Rare; only locality known 

 in the State. Shrub 5 to 8 inches high. 



Type locality : "Apalachicola, W. Florida. Mr. Drummond." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



XOLISMA Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 4 : 193. 1819. 

 About 10 species, shrubs, West Indies and North America; one circumpolar. 



Xolisma ligustrina (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 4 : 135. 1894. 



PRIVET-LIKE XOLISMA. 



Yaccinium ligustrinum L. Sp. PL 1 : 351. 1753. 



Andromeda ligustrina Muhl. Cat. 43. 1813. 



A. paniculata var. nudiflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 255. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 :490. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 316. Chap. FL 263. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 33. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Southern New England west to Michigan, Mis- 

 souri, and Arkansas; Virginia and West Virginia along the mountains to eastern 

 Tennessee and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Damp rocky banks. Clay County, Che-aw-ha 

 Mountain, at the waterfall, 2,300 feet, July 29, with ripe capsules. Lee County, 

 Auburn, 850 feet altitude, May 10 (Earle fy Underwood). Infrequent. 



Arborescent shrub, 10 to 15 feet high, sparsely pubescent; distinct by the almost 

 leafless slender loose-flowered racemes, pedicels mostly single, over^ inch in length. 

 The plants from the higher mountains answer perfectly to the type. Specimens 

 from Cullman County with the leaves pubescent on both sides, racemes paniculate 

 and more dense, the flowers with shorter pedicels, several from the same bud, 

 approach closely the following. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Pensylvania. Kalmu" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Xolisma ligustrina foliosiflora (Michx.) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:24. 1897, 

 Andromeda paniculata rar.foliosiflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 255. 1803. 

 Andromeda frondosa Pursh, FL Am. Sept. 1 : 295. 1814. 

 Lyonia frondosa Nutt. Gen. I ; 266, 1818. 



