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Grows in swamps and on river-banks, mostly in the coastal 

 plain. 



lA. South sice of Mussel Shoals, Colbert County. 



2B. Jefferson and Tuscaloosa Counties. 



6A. Tuscaloosa County. 



6C. Montgomery County, 

 low. Wilcox County. 



11. Choctaw and Clarke Counties. 



12. Geneva County. 



14. Mobile County (Mohr). Lower part of the delta. 



DAUBENTONIA, DeCandolle. (Xo common name.) 



Daubentonia longifolia (Cav.) DC. {D. pioiicca DC. ; Ses- 

 baiiia Ccri'diiillcsii, W^ats.) 



A large woody herb or short-lived shrul), al)()Ut six feet tall, 

 with pinnate leaves and showy racemes of red or yellow flowers, in 

 summer. ( The name D. punicca has been applied to the red form 

 and D. longifolia to the yellow form, but they do not seem to differ 

 in any other respect, and they are here treated as one species.) 

 Probably native of Mexico. Occasionally cultivated for ornament. 

 Said to be poisonous to sheep. (See Marsh in bibliography.) 



Runs wild along and near the Gulf coast from Apalachicola 

 westward, especially in Texas, where it appears almost like a na- 

 tive. Dr. Alohr found it in several places around Mobile, and I 

 have seen a little of it in Montgomery County. 



ROBINIA, Linnaeus. The Locusts. 

 Robinia Pseudo-acacia, L. (Black) Locust. 



A medium-sized tree, seldom more than a foot in diameter and 

 ■iO feet tall in Alabama, with furrowed dark brown bark, deciduous 

 pinnate leaves, and racemes of fragrant cream-colored flowers, in 

 late spring. The heart-wood is dark-colored, very heavy, hard, 

 strong and durable, and is used largely for fence-posts, cross-ties 

 and telegraph poles farther north, especially around Xew York, 

 where it is not native, but is commonly cultivated, and escaped 

 along roadsides, etc. It is not abundant enough in Alabama to be 

 of much importance, but I have been told that in Madison County 

 a good deal of the wood has been made into insulator pins, for 

 which purpose it is considered superior to all other American 

 woods. It also makes good fuel. The tree is often cultivated for 

 ornament or shade, and 1(5 horticultural varieties have l)een listed. 



