100 ECOXOAIIC B(/rAXV OF ALABAMA 



ccrifcra until about three decades ago,* but it is perfectly distinct. 

 It is deciduous northward, but evergreen in Alabama. This is the 

 principal source of bayberry wax, especially on Long Island and 

 Cape Cod. where it is more abundant than with us. It is occas- 

 ionally cultivated for ornament. 



Grows in wet woods and sandy bogs, mostly where less than 

 one per cent of the area was cultivated in cotton in 1880. f 



2A. Marshall, Etowah and St. Clair Counties. 



2B. Rare along Alill Creek, Jefferson County. Near North Alabama 

 Junction and Eight-Acre Rock, Tuscaloosa County. 



3. Damp pine woods northeast of Center, Cherokee County. 



4. Damp ravines in the mountains. Clay County. Some five feet tall. 

 6A. Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Chilton and Elmore Counties. 



6B. Tuscaloosa, Chilton and Autauga Counties. 



low. A few miles northeast of Camden, and in northern part of Choc- 

 taw County. 



12. Near Dothan. 



13. Fairly common. 



Myrica inodora, Bartram. 



Resembles M. Caroliiieiisis somewhat, but grows larger — 

 sometimes almost a tree — and has smoother leaves, which are odor- 

 less or nearly so, as the name implies. William Bartram, who 

 discovered it in the northern part of Baldwin County about 150 

 years ago, found the people there making candles from its wax. 



It grows in sour-branch-swamps, etc., and seems to be con- 

 fined to the southern pine hills, from ^liddle Florida to southern 

 Mississippi, w^here late summer is the rainy season. Within its 

 limited range it is not at all rare, and I have seen it in Mobile, 

 Baldwin and Escambia Counties, and perhaps also in Washington 

 and Covington. Dr. Mohr found it near Mobile and Stockton. 



SALIC ACEAE. Willow F.\mily. 



Two genera and about 200 species, trees and shrubs, mostly 

 in the cooler parts of the north temperate zone. Some are used for 

 lumber, basket-making, etc., and some are cultivated for shade 

 or ornament. 



*See Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 34 :374. 1907. 



fFor notes on its occurrence outside of the coastal plain see Bull. Torrev 

 Bot. Club, 33:528-529. 1906; Torreya, 10:221. 1910. 



