STORAX FAMILY. 665 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Metainorphic hills. Rich banks 

 of streams. Lauderdale County (M. C. Wilson}. Cullman County, 800 feet. Talla- 

 dega County, Chandler's Springs, 1,000 feet. Flowers white, April ; fruit ripe Septem- 

 ber and October. Tree 40 to 60 feet high and from 12 to 24 inches in fiiameter. 

 Frequent throughout the lower Mountain region. 



Economic uses: An ornamental tree. 



Type locality not given. Locality of H. tetraptera : " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Mohrodendroii dipterum (L.) Britton, Gard. & For. 6:463. 1893. 



SOUTHERN SILVER-BELL TREE. SNOWDROP TREE. 



Halesia diptera Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 636. 1762. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 508. Chap. Fl. 271. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2. pt. 1:71. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 

 6 : 23, /. 251. 



Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida to eastern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Upper division Coast Pine belt to the Coast plain. Swampy river 

 banks. Clarke County (Dr. Denny). Mobile County. Flowers white, March to first 

 week in April, appearing with the leaves just unfolding; fruit ripe July. Tree 20 

 to 25 feet high, 6 to 8 inches in diameter. Most frequent in the Coast plain. 



Economic uses: Ornamental. 



Type locality: " dab. in Carolina. D. Garden." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



STYRAX L. Sp. PI. 1 : 444. 1753. 



About 70 species, warmer temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres, 

 Asia and America. North America, 5. Small trees or shrubs. 



Styrax americana Lam. Encycl. 1 : 82. 1783. AMERICAN STORAX. 



Styrax laeris Walt. Fl. Car. 140. 1788. 



S. gldbrum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 41. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1:506 or 507. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 334. Chap. Fl. 271. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, 

 pt. 1:71. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia to Florida, west to Louisiana, Ar- 

 kansas, and southern Missouri. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Coast plain. Swampy thickets and alluvial forests. 

 Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 1,600 feet. Cullman County. Lee County, 

 Auburn (Earle <}' Underwood). Baldwin County, Stockton, in swampy forests of the 

 river delta. Flowers white, fragrant; March, April. Not rare. Slender shrub, 4 to 

 6 feet high. 



Type locality: " Cette arbrisseau crolt dans 1'Amerique septentrionale." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. * Herb. Mohr. 



Styrax pulverulenta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 41. 1803. POWDERY STORAX. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 506. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 334. Chap. Fl. 271. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 258. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 72. 



Louisianiau area. Southeastern Virginia and North Carolina, along the coast to 

 Florida, west to eastern Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Pine-barren swamps. Washington, 

 Baldwin, and Mobile counties. Flowers white, April. Frequent in the Coast plain. 

 Low, rarely over 2| feet high. 



Type locality: "Hab. in sylvis Carolinae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Styrax grandifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 75. 1789. LARGE-FLOWERED STORAX. 



Styrax grandiflornm Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 41. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1:505. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 331. Chap. Fl. 271. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1:72. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. Southeastern Virginia ( ?) and North Carolina, 

 south and west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. Coast Pine belt. Shady bor- 

 ders of woods. Lee County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle, 342). Choctaw County. Mount 

 Sterling. Clarke County (Dr. Denny). Monroe and Baldwin counties. 'Mobile 

 County, Mount Vernou. Flowers white, April. Not infrequent. Shrub 10 to 12 

 feet high. 



Economic uses: Ornamental like the others of the same genus. 



Type locality : " Native of South Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



