MYRICACEAE 99 



6C. Occasional in Pickens, Greene and Hale Counties. 

 6C or 7. House Bluff, Autauga County. 



7. Near Lake Bend on Warrior River in Greene County, about twenty 

 miles above Demopolis, and near Bogue Chitto. Dallas County. Reported 

 from Dallas County by Cocks and from Montgomery County by Mohr. 



8. Crenshaw County and eastward. 

 lOE. Frequent. 



low. Common. 



11. 12. Common. 



13. Frequent. 



14. Near Alagazine Point, Mobile County 



15. Near Fairhope and Orange Beach, Baldwin County. 



Myrica pumila f Mx.) Small. (.1/. ccrifcra, var. pumila, AIx.) 



To be absolutely consistent one should perhaps treat this as a 

 variety of the preceding, as was done nearly throughout the 19th 

 century ; but it is more convenient to call it a separate species. It 

 differs from M. ccrifcra in being smaller, usually not more than 

 knee-high, and having a large subterranean stem, which enables 

 it to shoot up again after the parts above ground are killed by fire, 

 — a frequent occurrence in most of the places where it grows. 



The berries are so .small that it is probalile that little or no 

 wax has ever beeii made from them ; but in Baldwin County I have 

 been told that the dried bark of the root is sometimes used as a 

 remedy for toothache and neuralgia. 



Grows in sandy soil, dry or damp, in Alabama usually in open 

 forests of long-leaf pine. (In Louisiana and Texas it is common 

 in some parts of the coast prairies, away from all trees.) 



Dr. Mohr reported it from Cullman and Autauga Counties, 



out those are remote from the present known stations, and it is 



possible that he mistook .1/. Carolincusis for it. It seems to be 



chiefly confined to the lower parts of the coastal plain. (See 



map. ) 



7. Flat pine woods (Piinis Tarda) about a mile west of Fort Davis, 

 Macon County. 



low. Near Boiling, Butler County. 



12. Washington, Covington and Houston Counties. 



13. Common nearly throughout. 



Myrica Carolinensis, Mill. 



Differs from M. ccrifcra in never becoming a tree, and having 

 paler leaves (never yellowish), which are not reduced in size at 

 the ends of the twigs. It was pretty generally confused with M. 



