OLEACEAE 309 



to be put to any use, though its wood is heavy, hard, tough and 



close-grained. It ought to make an ornamental tree, but it does 



not seem to be handled by the nursery trade. 



Inhabits bluffs, hammocks, sandy river-banks, etc., protected 



from fire, in and near the coastal plain. 



S. Chilton County (See Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33:535. 1906). 



6A. Chilton and Elmore Counties. 



6B. Autauga County. 



8. Pike County. 



lOE. Crenshaw, Pike, Dale, Coffee and Covington Counties. 



low. Choctaw and Monroe Counties. 



11. Clarke and Conecuh Counties. 



12. Geneva County. 



13. Washington, Mobile, Baldwin and Escambia Counties. 

 15. Hammock near Orange Beach, Baldwin County. 



LOGANIACEAE. 



A mainly tropical family, with about 30 genera and 400 

 species, represented in xA.labama by one woody vine and several 

 herbs. 



GELSEMIUM, Jussieu. 

 Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) Ait. f. Yellow Jessamine. 



A slender twining vine, with shiny evergreen leaves, and 

 handsome fragrant yellow flowers in spring (about February to 

 April). Very ornamental, but not cultivated as much as it de- 

 serves. It belongs to the same family as strychnine, and the 

 whole plant is more or less poisonous (not to the skin, but when 

 taken internally). The flowers should not be kept in a bedroom 

 over night, and even the honey from them is somewhat poisonous. 

 The roots contain an alkaloid known as gelsemine, which is offi- 

 cinal in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. 



Inhabits bluffs, hammocks, ravines, roadsides, and various 



other places protected from fire, in nearly all parts of the state 



south of Tennessee Valley and within 1000 feet of sea-level. Not 



very conspicuous when not in bloom, so that the regions I happen 



to have visited in February and March figure more largely in my 



records of its distribution than the others. 



2A. Marion, Cullman, DeKalb and Cherokee Counties. 



2B. Jefferson and Tuscaloosa Counties. 



3. Bibb County. 



5. Chilton and Elmore Counties. 



