664 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



SAPOTACEAE. Sapodilla Family 



BUMELIA Sw. Prodr. 49. 1788. 



About 30 species, trees and shrubs, wanner temperate, but chiefly of subtropical 

 and tropical America. Southern Atlantic North America, 4. 



Bumelia lanuginosa (Michx.) Pers. Syn. 1:237. 1805. FALSE BUCKTHORN. 



Sideroxylon lannginosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 122. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 288. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 333. Chap. Fl. 275. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:256. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 5: 111, t. 247. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 68. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Illinois and Missouri, south to Texas 

 and east to Florida and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Coast plain. Open woods, in damp rocky or 

 gravelly soil. Frankliu Couuty, Russellville. Pike County, Troy. Mobile County. 

 Flowers in June; fruit ripe September, black. Not infrequent in the Coast plain, 

 along the western shore of Mobile Bay. Tree rarely over 40 feet high. 



Typo locality : " Hab. in dumosis hiimidis Georgiae." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Bumelia lycioides (L.) Pers. Syn. 1:237. 1805. SOUTHERN BUCKTHORN. 



Sideroiylon lycioides L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 279. 1762. 



Ell. Sk. 1:287. Gray, Man. ed. 6,332. Chap. Fl. 275. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 257. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 68. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 5 : 173, t. 248. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of Virginia, south to Florida, west to 

 Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and southern Illinois. 



ALABAMA: Prairie region. Dry open woods, copses, calcareous soil. Dallas 

 County. Wilcox County ( Buckley). Flowers greenish white, March ; fruit ripe in 

 October, shining black. Not frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Canada." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



EBENACEAE. Ebony Family. 



DIOSPYROS L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1057. 1753. 



About 160 species, eastern Asia. North America, 2. Trees. 

 Diospyros virginiana L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1057. 1753. PERSIMMON. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 712. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 333. Chap. Fl. 273. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 257. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 69. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 6 : 7, t. 264. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Connecticut aud New York, to the 

 Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Arkansas, south to Florida, and along the Gulf to eastern 

 Texas. 



ALABAMA: All over the State. Flowers May; fruit ripe in September and Octo- 

 ber, orange buff. Tree of medium size, 40 to 50 feet high, rarely over 12 inches in 

 diameter. Produces in the Coast plain its fruit in greatest perfection, with few seeds 

 and a rich sweet pulp, ripening early in September. 



Economic uses : Valuable for its wood. The unripe fruit, " Diospyros," is an obso- 

 lete medicine. The mature fruit is used for food. 



Type locality: " Hab. in America septentrionali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



STYEACACEAE. Storax Family. 



MOHRODENDRON Britton, Gard. & For. 6 : 463. 1893. 



(HALE8IA Ellis ; L. Syst. ed. 10, 2 : 1044. 1759. Not P. Br. 1756. ) 



(MOHRIA Britton, Gard. & For. 6:434. 1893. Not Sw. 1806.) 



(CARLOMOHRIA Greene, Erythea, 1 : 236. 1893.) 



Three species, Atlantic North America, Southern. Trees. 



Mohrodendron carolinum (L.) Britton, Gard. & For. 6 : 463. 1893. 



CAROLINA SILVERBELL TREE. OPOSSUM WOOD. 

 Halesia Carolina L. Syst. ed. 10, 2 : 1044. 1759. 

 H. tetraptera L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 636. 1762. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 507. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 334. Chap. Fl. 271. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 71. 

 Carolinian area. West Virginia, along the mountains to Tennessee and Florida? 



