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green but velvety beneath. Blooms in March and April. Too 

 small and crooked to be useful. 



Grows in rich woods and ravines and on bluffs, usually not 

 calcareous. 



IB. Warnock Mountain, Blount County (Mohr). South of Blount 

 Springs. 



2A. Near DeSoto Falls on Lookout Mountain. Marshall County (Har- 

 bison). Cullman County (Mohr, Wolf). On top of Warnock Mountain 

 and along Calvert Prong of Warrior River, Blount County. 



2B. Walker, Jefferson and Tuscaloosa Counties; frequent. 



3. Limestone hill near Lagarde, Etowah County. 



4. Coosa County. 



5. Randolph, Chilton and Elmore Counties. 

 6A. Bibb County. 



7. Near Hatcher's Bluff, Dallas County (Cocks). 



lOE. Dale and Covington Counties. 



low. Claiborne Bluff, Monroe County. "Mt. Sterling, Butler County." 

 (Mohr). (Alt. Sterling is in Choctaw County, as stated on the preceding 

 page, but in both cases Dr. Mohr or his editor may have intended this for 

 the name of some place in Butler County.) 



11. Choctaw, Washington and Clarke Counties. 



SOFT MAPLES 



Acer saccharinum, L. (A. dasycarpum, Ehrh.) 



White, Silver, or Soft Maple. 



A rather large and handsome tree. It is a favorite shade and 

 park tree in northern cities, less so in the South, but it seems to be 

 subject to disease, and therefore often looks shabby. About half 

 a dozen varieties have been developed in cultivation. The wood 

 is used some for furniture, boxes, broom handles, woodenware, 

 etc. 



Grows on muddy banks of rivers and creeks subject to consid- 

 erable fluctuation. 



1. On the Tennessee River and its larger tributaries, all the way across 

 the state, but probably never common along Mussel Shoals, where the water 

 could not fluctuate as much as in the sluggish reaches. 



2B. Extends up the Warrior River to about ten miles above Tusca- 

 loosa. 



3. Common along the Coosa River and a few large creeks. 



5. Along the Coosa River, but not common, on account of the many 

 shoals, which limit the seasonal fUictuation of the water. Being gradually 

 drowned out by the building of more high dams. 



6A. Along the Warrior. Cahaba and Coosa Rivers. 



6C. Common along the Tombigbee, Warrior, .\labama and Tallapoosa 

 Rivers. 



7. On the Tombigbee, Warrior and Alabama Rivers. 



8 (and probably lOE). Along the Chattahoochee River. 



low, 11. Along the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers. 



14. Near Mt. \'ernon (Mohr). 



