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farther fri)ni streams. It is rather rare, and the only locaHty 

 known to Dr. Mohr was the first one hsted helow. 



5 (or 6A). Found a few miles south of Auburn by F. S. Earle. 



6C (?). In A. H. Howell's "Biological Survey of Alabama" (North 

 American Fauna No. 45, 1921) there is an illustration (plate 7, fig. 2) 

 entitled "River bottom swamp near Scale. Undergrowth of palmetto (Salmi 

 mimis) in hardwood forest." The palm in the picture looks more like 

 RhapidophyUum than Sabal, and Mr. Howell informs me that the picture 

 was taken on Big Uchee Creek, about twelve miles northwest of Scale. 



7. Bottoms of Big Swamp or Letohatchee Creek, Lowndes County. 

 Bottoms of Bughall Creek between Fitzpatrick and Thompson, Bullock 

 County. There it is quite common, and seems to be the only palm. 



lOE. Bluffs on Pea River near Elba, rare. Along Choctawhatchee 

 River in northern Henry County (Howell). 



low. Probably in Butler County, but exact locality unknown. (See 

 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33:526-527. 'l906.) Seen in bottoms of Sepulga 

 River near southwestern corner of that county, April 19, 1928. Common on 

 bluffs on west side of Alabama River near old Lisbon landing, Monroe 

 County. (Walter B. Jones, Sept., 1925). Rich woods near Limestone 

 Creek northeast of Claiborne. 



11. Common in bottoms of Murder Creek near Evergreen, at least 

 in 1905. 



LILIACEAE. Lily Family. 



In the broadest sense this includes over 200 genera and 2,000 

 species, the great majority herbs, widely distributed over the earth. 

 But some authorities divide it into several families, and put our 

 woody representatives, and a few other genera, into the Dracae- 

 naceae, typified by Dracaena Draco, the dragon tree of the Canary 

 Islands, which yields a resin used in the arts, known as dragon's 

 blood. 



YUCCA, Linnaeus. 



A common genus in the southwestern states and Mexico, 

 where some are tree-like, and conspicuous in the desert landscapes. 

 The southeastern species are rather few and small. 



Yucca aloifolia, L. Spanlsh Bayonet. 



A plant of somewhat palm-like aspect, with simple upright 

 stems several feet tall, densely covered with rigid sharp-pointed 

 and saw-edged widely sj^reading evergreen leaves about a foot 

 long. Topped by a large cluster of tulip-like white flowers in 

 summer. A favorite ornamental plant in the warmer parts of the 

 United States, giving a semi-tropical but more or less forbidding 

 aspect to many a park and lawn, at least as far north as Tusca- 

 loosa. 



