314 ECOXOMIC FIOTAXV OF ALABAMA 



13. Between Bay Minette and Stockton (Mohr). 



15. Navy Cove, Mobile County, and along Perdido Bay (Mohr). 

 Dunes south of Orange Beach, Baldwin County. 



SOLANACEAE.XiGHTSHADK Family. 



A large family in temperate and tropical regions, with over 

 75 genera and 2,0()U species, mostly herbs. Includes several im- 

 portant vegetables, such as the Irish potato, tomato, egg-plant and 

 red pepper, and also some ornamental and poisonous plants and 

 many weeds. 



LYCIUM, Linnaeus. (^L\trimo.nv Aixk, etc.) 

 Lycium Carolinianum, \\'alt. 



A straggling shrub with blue flowers in June and red berries 

 in October. Little known, but some of its foreign relatives are 

 cultivated for ornament. 



Grows in and around salt marshes. Found in jjoth of our 

 coast counties by Dr. Mohr. 



SCROPHULARIACEAE. Fk.wort Family. 



A large family of world-wide distribution, with about 180 

 genera and 3,000 species, mostly herbs. Includes many weeds and 

 ornamental plants, but few that are useful. 



PAULOWNIA, Siebold & Zuccarini. 



Paulownia tomentosa ( Thunb. ) Piaill. (P. hnpcrialis, Sieb. & 

 Zucc. j 



(Seems to have no generally recognized common name, but I 

 have heard it called "cottonwood" in Georgia, perhaps on account 

 of the resemblance of its pods to cotton bolls.) 



A medium-sized tree much like the Catalpa in general ap- 

 pearance, with large opposite fuzzy heart-shaped deciduous leaves, 

 large blue flowers in erect terminal clusters in spring from buds 

 formed the previous fall, and dry pods about an inch long. Native 

 of Japan, where its wood is said to be used for veneers and sandals. 



Cultivated for ornament and shade in many parts of the 

 state, and inclined to rim wild around cities. I have seen it doing 

 so at Tuscaloosa, and Dr. jMohr reports it from Montgomery and 

 Pike Comities. 



