152 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



MORUS, L. The Mulberries. 



Morus rubra, L. (Common, or Red) Mulberry. 



A small to medium-sized more or less crooked tree, blooming 

 in March and April, and ripening its edible fruit in our latitudes 

 about June. Sometimes cultivated for ornament or shade, or for 

 its fruit. The heart-wood is yellow and very durable, and used 

 for fence-posts where it can be had in sufficient quantity. 



Grows in rich woods and bottoms, or sometimes in weedy 

 places ; frequent, but nowhere abundant. 



IB. On limestone, Franklin County. 

 2B. Fayette, Walker and Tuscaloosa County. 

 3. Common, probably in every county. 

 5. Randolph and Lee Counties. 



6A. Frequent from Lamar County to Chilton County (Mulberry 

 Creek L 



6C. Greene County to Elmore County. 



7. Common throughout. 



8. Sumter and Crenshaw Counties. 



9. Sumter County. 



lOE. Crenshaw and Coffee Counties. 

 low. Frequent throughout. 



11. Washington, Clarke and Monroe Counties. 



12. Around a limestone cave in southeastern corner of Covington 

 Countv. 



13 or 14. Edges of the delta in Mobile and Baldwin Counties (Mohr). 



Morus alba, L. (White) Mulberry. 



Native of China. A form known as M. iiinlticaitlis was once 

 cultivated for food for silkworms, and it has run wild a little in 

 Mobile County, according to Mohr. 



PLATANACEAE. Plane-tree Family. 



Consists only of the following genus, with one species in the 

 eastern L'nited States and a few others in the West and in the 

 Mediterranean region. For the last forty years or so it has usually 

 been placed between the Hamamelidaceae and Rosaceae ; but R. F. 

 Griggs (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36:389-395. 1909) suggests that 

 its affinities are with the L'rticales, which seems reasonable. 



