270 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



Stewartia pentagyna, L'Her. 



Ornamental, like the preceding-, and offered for sale in some 

 nursery catalogues. 



Grows on bluffs in the plateau region ( 2 A). Found in Cull- 

 man County by Mohr and Harbison, in Jackson County by Har- 

 bison, and in JNIarshall County by the writer (in lOOG only). 



HYPERICACEAE. St. John's-Wort Family. 



About 8 genera and 250 species, mostly shrubs and herbs. 



ASCYRUM, Linnaeus. (St. Andrew's Cross. St. Peter's Wort.) 



Small shrubs, with numerous small entire opposite leaves, and 

 yellow flowers with four narrow petals arranged like a letter X, or 

 St. Andrew's cross. Economic properties unknown. 



Ascyrum stans, Mx. 



Evergreen. Blooms all summer. Grows in sandy bogs, etc., 

 mostly in the coastal plain, and where less than 1% of the area 

 was cultivated in cotton in 1880. 



2A. Cullman County (Mohr). DeKalb, Marshall and St. Clair Coun- 

 ties. 



4. Wet ravines in the mountains near Pyriton, Clay County. 



6B. Chilton and Autauga Counties. 



13. Washington, Clarke, Monroe and Baldwin Counties. Mobile and 

 Escambia Counties (Mohr). 



Ascyrum hypericoides, L. (A. Cntx-Andrcac, L. ?, A. multi- 

 caidc, Mx?) 



Under this name may be included two or three species, but if 



so they are hard to distinguish. 



Grows in dry woods, in rather poor soil ; not abundant. 



LA.. Lauderdale County (Mohr). 



IB. Falkville, Morgan County (Mohr). 



IC. Morgan County. 



2A. Cullman and Marshall Counties. 



2B(?). Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). 



4. Clay County (Mohr). 



5. Rocky hills near Coosa River, Chilton County (a narrow-leaved 

 extreme). 



6B. Bibb County. 



12. Chalk Hill, near Healing Springs, Washington County. 



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

 (Mohr). 



