200 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



6A. Near Tuscaloosa ; not common. 



6C. Perry, Autauga and Montgomery Counties. Probably commoner 

 in the black belt and southward, but I have made no special note of it 

 there, except near Richmond in Dallas County. (Mohr says "Throughout 

 the coast plain" [his "coast plain" being not the whole coastal plain, but 

 a small area around Mobile Bay], but gives no specific locality.) 



Rosa bracteata, Wendl. (Macartney Rose.) 



Resembles the preceding, and is often confused with it by 

 persons who are not familiar with both. But it is more bushy, has 

 more numerous and shorter leaflets, and a different calyx, and 

 blooms about two months later. Supposed to be native of Asia. 



Probably originally cultivated for ornament, but now mostly 

 a weed, in old fields, pastures, along roadsides, etc. 



IB. Near Cherokee, Colbert County. (Could the place perhaps have 

 been named after the rose?) 



3. Shelby County ; especially common around Calera. Also Talladega 

 County. 



6A. Common near Xuscaloosa. 



6C. Perry County. 



7. Dallas, Lowndes and Montgomery Counties. 



8 (?). Abundant near Carlowville, Dallas County. 



13. Mobile County (Mohr). 



Three other introduced roses are listed in Mohr's Plant Life, from 

 one county each. 



POMACEAE (or MALACEAE). Apple Family. 



Includes about 20 genera and GOO species, trees and shrubs, 

 mostly in the north temperate zone. Many have edible fruit (e.g., 

 apple, pear, quince), and some are ornamental. 



MALUS, Jussieu (Pynis. L.. in part). Thk Appli;?, etc. 



Malus angustifolia (Ait.) AL\. (Pynts aiKjiislifolia, Ait.) 



Crab-apple. 



A small tree, usually less than a foot in diameter, with numer- 

 ous spreading branches. Flowers pink and fragrant, in March 

 and April ; fruit ripe in fall. A somewhat variable species, and 

 some of the Alabama crab-apples might be referred by splitters to 

 other species, btit the differences are not very marked, and they 

 will be all treated as one for the present. 



Sometimes cultivated, chiefly on account of the flowers, which 

 besides gratifying the senses of sight and smell, are said to be a 



