AQUIFOLIACEAE 249 



Ilex glabra (L.) Gray. (Priuos glahcr, L.) GallbErry.* 



(Map 21) 



An evergreen shrub, a few feet tall, with small white flowers 

 in spring, and dull black bitter berries persisting through the win- 

 ter. Sold by nurserymen for planting along borders, etc. The 

 bushes are often tied together in small bundles to make brooms for 

 sweeping yards. The flowers are an important source of honey, 

 and the berries are sometimes used medicinally by country people. 

 Grows in sour sandy places, such as low pine lands and edges 

 of swamps, in the non-calcareous portions of the coastal plain. 

 Fire does not seem to hurt it much, for when burned it soon sends 

 up new shoots from the roots. 



6B. Autauga County. Elmore County (Mohr). 



6C. Near Tuskegee, Macon County. 



7. Flat pine woods about a mile west of Fort Davis, Macon County. 



8. Near Comer, Barbour County. 

 lOE. Scattered throughout. 



low. Butler, Monroe and Clarke Counties. 



11. Choctaw and Washington Counties. 



12. Common throughout. 



13. Abundant throughout. 



15. Mobile and Baldwin Counties. 



CELASTRACEAE. Stapf-Tree Family. 

 About 45 genera and 400 species, trees, shrubs and vines, 

 widely distributed. Some are ornamental and some medicinal. 



EUONYMUS, Linnaeus, (Originally spelled Broiiyiiiiis : perhaps 

 a misprint.) 



Euonymus Americanus, L. (Strawberry Bush.) 



A slender shrub, with four-angled green stems, leaves ever- 

 green or nearly so, greenish flowers in April, and bright red warty 

 fruits with large red seeds in fall. Ornamental, if nothing else. 



Grows in rich woods, ravines, hammocks, etc., where fire is 

 rare or impossible. Frequent, but not abundant. 



lA. Along Cypress Creek near Florence. 

 2A. Blount and Cherokee Counties. 

 2B. Walker and Tuscaloosa Counties. 



*It is known exclusively by this name by millions of people in the 

 South, but just because it happens to be called "inkberry" in some northern 

 states (where it is far less abundant), one finds no mention of "gallberry" 

 in manuals of southern plants written in the North, nor even in some dic- 

 tionaries ; and the latter name does not even appear in the catalogue part of 

 Alohr's Plant Life of Alabama, which was edited in Washington. (It does 

 appear, however, on page 821, which perhaps did not get the same editorial 

 attention as the rest.) 



