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Dodecatheon meadia L. Shooting Star. 



Upper Midland District and Mountain Zone; in moist forests; infre- 

 quent. 



PLUMBAGINACEAE. 



Limonium carolinianum (Walt.) Britton. Sea Lavender. 



Coastal Zone; in salt and brackish marshes; common. 



EBENACEAE. 



Diospyros virginiana L. Persimmon. 



Throughout the Coastal and Midland Zones, absent from the Mountain 



Zone. Is abundant in the upland forests of the Coastal Zone, and 



frequent in the Midland Zone, but more often as an isolated tree in 



open situations. 



SYMPLOCACEAE. 



Symplocos tinctoria (L.) L'Her. Sweet-Leaf. 



Worcester County (H. H. Rusby). 



OLEACEAE. 



Fraxinus americana L. White Ash. 



Throughout the state; in swamps and ravines and along streams; 

 common. 



Fraxinus lanceolata Borck. Green Ash. 



Coastal and Midland Zones; common in the river and stream swamps 



of the Coastal Zone, frequent in flood plains and along streams in the 



Midland Zone. 

 Somerset County, near Mattaponi Landing (1147). 



Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh. Red Ash. 



Throughout the state; in flood plains and along streams; infrequent. 



Fraxinus nigra Marsh. Black Ash. 



Throughout the state; in swamps and flood plains; infrequent. 



Chionanthus virginica L. Fringe-tree. 



Coastal and Midland Zones; being most abundant in moist sandy flood 

 plains and sandy-loam upland swamps in the Coastal Zone; is in- 

 frequent in moist sandy soil in the Midland Zone; has been observed 

 in apparently dry situations on the gravel hills of Cecil County and 

 on rocky slopes in Montgomery County. 



LOGANIACEAE. 



Polypremum procumbens L. 



Confined to the southern counties of the Eastern Shore; in open fields 



and waste grounds; infrequent. 

 Worcester County, Boxiron (1069). 



