292 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



Grows in or around non-alluvial swamps, ponds, bays, etc., in 

 the coastal plain. 



low. Marengo and Butler Counties. 



12. Cypress pond near Gordon, Houston County. 



13. Around Lake Jackson near Florala. Mobile and Baldwin Counties 

 (Mohr). 



15. Swamp near Point Clear, Baldwin Co. 



L. rcciin'a (Buck!.) Gray, a mountain species related to the preceding, 

 was credited to Alabama by Dr. Gray (in his Synoptical Flora of North 

 America), but without definite locality. 



PIERIS, D. Don. 



Pieris nitida (Bartr.) B. & H. (Hurrah Bush [Ga.]. HorsE- 



wiCKY [Fla.] ) 



An evergreen shrub with numerous huckleberry-like pinkish 

 flowers in March and April. I have seen it ten feet tall in Chilton 

 County, but it is usually less than half that height. Its economic 

 properties are unknown, except that it is occasionally cultivated for 

 ornament. 



Grows in sandy bogs and sour swamps ; almost confined to the 

 coastal plain. 



5. Along Chestnut Creek east of \"erbena, Chilton County. 



6A. Chilton County. 



6B. Autauga County ; rather common. 



lOE. Dale County. ' 



low. Sumter County. 



11. Washington County. 



12. Washington, Covington and Houston Counties. 



13. Frequent nearly throughout. 



15. Common near Orange Beach, Baldwin County. 



Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC. 



Differs from all other Ericaceae in being usually a vine, and 

 from all other known vines in that it climbs cypress trees (Taxo- 

 diiiui iiiibricariiiiii, never T. disfichum) by creeping up under the 

 outer bark, often to a height of twenty or thirty feet, and sending 

 out branches every few feet, that look as if they were growing 

 right out of the tree."*- More rarely a small shrub standing alone, 

 two or three feet tall. Evergreen. Blooms in February. 



Grows mostly in cypress ponds. (Commoner in Georgia and 

 Florida.) 



12. Ponds south of McRae, Covington County, and east of Gordon, 

 Houston County. 



13. Around Lake Jackson, Covington County. Mobile County (Mohr). 



*See Torreva 3:21-22. 1903. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 35:534. 1906. 



