302 ECOXOAIIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



6A. Marion County to Elmore. 



6C. Pickens and Autauga Counties. 



7. Dallas County (Cocks). 



9. Sumter County. 



lOE. Pike, Coffee and Dale Counties. 



low. Choctaw, Marengo and Butler Counties. 



11. Near Evergreen, Conecuh County. 



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



STYRACACEAE.Storax Family. 



About six genera and 115 species, trees and shrubs, widely 

 distributed in tropica! and warm-temperate regions. 



STYRAX, Limiaeus. (Apparently no common name in 

 these parts) 



Shrubs, with roughish leaves, rather handsome white flowers, 

 and small dry berry-like fruits. Some of them are occasionally- 

 cultivated for ornament elsewhere, but the people in this part of 

 the world seem to have no name or use for them. 



Styrax grandifolia, Ait. 



A large shrub, sometimes almost a tree, with broad leaves 

 much like those of Halcsia dipt era (see below). When not in 

 fruit it might easily be mistaken for a young specimen of that 

 tree. Blooms in April and May. 



Grows mostly in the coastal plain, and in dry places pro- 

 tected from fire. 



2A. Cullman County, near creeks. 



2B. Bluffs along Warrior River near Locks 14 and 16, Tuscaloosa 

 Countv. 



5 ( ? ) . ( Near ? ) Auburn (Baker & Earle ) . 



6B. Near Duncanville, Tuscaloosa County (W. W. Ashe, Aug. 1926). 



6C. Ravines southwest of Booth, Autauga County. 



low. Mountains near West Butler, Choctaw Countv. Mt. Sterling 

 (Mohr). 



11. North of Silas, Choctaw County. Clarke County (Denny). 



13. Mobile and FJaldwin Counties (Mohr). 



Styrax Americana, Lam. 



Differs from the preceding chiefly in having more branches 

 and smaller leaves, and in its habitat. 



Grows in wet woods and swamps of various kinds, mostly 

 non-alluvial. 



2A. Cullman and DeKalb Counties (Mohr). Lookout Mountain, Eto- 

 wah County. 



5. Tallapoosa and Lee Counties (Baker & Earle). 



