248 ECOXOAIIC BOTANY OF ALABAAIA 



Ilex verticillata (L.) Gray. (Black Alder.) 



A large deciduous shrub, with red berries. 

 Grows in wet woods and along small streams. Not com- 

 mon in the South. 



2A. Cullman County (Mohr, Wolf). Jackson County (Harbison). 

 DeKalb and Cherokee Counties. 



4. Clay Count}-. 



6A. Tuscaloosa County. 



6B. Autauga County. 



7 (?). Montgomery County (Mohr). 



13 or 14. Stockton, Baldwin County (Mohr). 



A variety (padtfolia) has been identified in Cullman County by W. 

 Wolf. 



A few other deciduous shrubby red-berried species have been reported 

 from various places in Alabama, but they are not well understood. Among 

 them are /. vwnticola. Gray, and its variety mollis, Britton (/. mollis, Gray), 

 reported by Dr. Mohr from regions 2A and 5, and /. Bcadlei, Ashe, reported 

 by Mr. Harbison from Marshall County. 



The next two species have evergreen leaves and bitter black 

 berries, and were put in a separate genus (Prinos) by Linnaeus, 

 but have long been included in Ilex by most authors. 



Ilex coriacea (Pursh) Chapm. (/. lucida, T. &. G.) 



An evergreen shrub with shiny black berries. Resembles the 

 next, but is usually larger, sometimes ten or fifteen feet tall, and 

 has broader leaves with sharper teeth. Blooms in spring. Noth- 

 ing definite is known about its economic properties, but it prob- 

 ably yields honey, like the next. 



Grows in wet woods and sour swamps ; confined to the coas- 

 tal plain or nearly so. 



5 (?). Lee County (Baker & Earle). 

 6B. Autauga County. 



6C. Very common in Bear Swamp, Autauga Countv. (See Torreya 

 24:82. 1924.) 



lOE. Pike, Coffee and Dale Counties. 



low (?). Conecuh County. 



12 (?). Geneva County. 



13. Washington, Mobile, Baldwin, Escambia and Covington Counties. 



