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source of honey. The fruit is hard and sour, but is often eaten 

 raw by the fair sex, and it makes pretty good preserves and jelly. 

 On Lookout Mountain I have been told that the tree can be used 

 as a stock for grafting almost any sort of apples. The wood is 

 hard, and might have some uses if there was enough of it. 



Grows in dry or slightly damp woods, usually in somewhat 

 clayey soil and ni level ground. Nowhere alnmdant ; and not con- 

 spicuous when not in bloom. 



IC. Colbert County. 



2A. Madison and Cullman Counties (Mohr). Lookout Mountain, De- 

 Kalb County. 



2B. North of Vance, Tuscaloosa County. 



3. DeKalb, Etowah, St. Clair, Jefferson, Shelby, and doubtless in all 

 the other counties. 



5. Coosa County. 



6A. Elmore County. 



6C. Greene, Autauga and Montgomery Counties. 



7. Dallas (Mohr, Cocks) and Montgomery Counties. 



8. Pike County. 

 low. Butler County. 



13. Mobile County (Mohr). 



ARONIA, Medicus. (Choke-berry). 



Aronia arbutifolia (L.) Pers. (Pynts arhutifolia, L. f.) 



A small thornless deciduous shrub with bright red berries re- 

 sembling small haws, but not fit to eat. Blooms in March. (There 

 are one or two related species farther north, and there may possi- 

 bly be more than one in Alabama.) Said to be occasionally culti- 

 vated for ornament. . 



Grows in sandy bogs and wet woods, in those parts of the 



state where less than 5^ of the area was cultivated in cotton in 



1880. 



2A. Cullman, Marshall and DeKalb Counties. 



2B. Along Mill Creek near Democrat, Jefferson Countv. (15 feet 

 tall). 



4. Cheaha Mountain (Mohr). 



5. Wet woods southeast of Heflin, Cleburne County (10 feet tall). 

 6A. Marion and Bibb Counties. 



6B. Chilton and Autauga Counties. 



8. Pike County. 



lOE. Dale and Coffee Counties. 



low. Sumter County. 



13. Covington and Geneva Counties. 



One of the black-fruited species should occur in Alabama, but they 

 are not easy to distinguish when not in fruit, and I have no record of 

 them 



