VERBEXACEAE 311 



VERBENACEAE. Verbena (or \'ervaix) Family. 



About 75 genera and 7 50 species, mostly tropical herbs, 

 shrubs and small trees. ]\Iany are ornamental. 



CALLICARPA, Linnaeus. (Only one species in the United States). 



Callicarpa Americana, L. Frexcii ^Mulberry. Fox-berry. 



(Bird-Eye. Indian Currant?) 



A shrub several feet tall, with rough, coarse deciduous leaves, 

 small pink flowers clustered close to the stem, in June and July, 

 followed by small pink-purple berries. Occasionally cultivated for 

 ornament, and said to be hardy as far north as \\"ashington, D. C. 

 Xo other use seems to be known for it. 



Grows in dry woods, hammocks, etc., avoiding the richest 

 and poorest soils and the higher mountains. It is usually found in 

 places where fire is rare, but fire is not necessarily fatal to it. 

 The slope of a ravine on the University campus where Callicarpa 

 is abundant was burned over in June, 1921. and the bushes were 

 killed to the ground, but a few weeks later they were sending up 

 new shoots, which reached full height by the end of the season, 

 but apparently bore no flowers or fruit that year. So probably 

 annual fires would exterminate the plants in a few years, and even 

 a fire every other year might discourage it so that it would soon 

 succumb to the competition of other plants which are less sensitive. 



lA. South side of Mussel Shoals, Colbert County. 

 IB. On limestone slopes, Madison, Marshall, Morgan. Lawrence and 

 Blount Counties. 



2A. Cullman County (Mohr). 



2B. Tuscaloosa County (Mohr) 



3. Talladega, Jefferson, and probably all the other counties. 



5. Clay and Lee Counties (Mohr). Chilton and Elmore Counties. 



6A. Franklin, Pickens and Tuscaloosa Counties. 



6C. Hale, Autauga and Alacon Counties. 



7. Greene, Sumter, Marengo and Montgomery Counties. 



8. Sumter and Marengo Counties. 



9. Sumter Count\-. 



lOE. Pike, Dale, Coffee and Covington Counties. 

 low. Wilcox, Clarke, Monroe and Butler Counties. 



11. Clarke and Monroe Counties. 



12. Washington, Covington and Geneva Counties. 



13. Washington, Clarke, Mobile (Mohr), Baldwin and Escambia 

 Counties. 



13 or 15. Hammocks on west side of Mobile Bav. 



