CAPRIFOLIACEAE 321 



Grows naturally on bluffs and in hammocks, but also fre- 

 quent in other places protected from fire, such as bushy road- 

 sides. Widely distributed, but not very common. 



IB. Limestone slopes of Warnock Mountain, Blount County. 



2A. Cullman County (Mohr). 



2B. Near Lock 14, Tuscaloosa County. 



3. Limestone hiP near Lagarde, Etowah County. 



4. Coldwater Mountain, Calhoun County. 

 6C. Perry County. 



7. Montgomery County. 



lOE. Pike and Dale Counties. 



low. Choctaw County. 



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



Lonicera flava, Sims. 



Similar to the preceding, except that its leaves are a little 



wider and its flowers always yellow. Equally ornamental. 



Grows on siliceous rocks among the mountains. 



2A. Madison and Marshall Counties (if identified correctly). 

 4. Calhoun, Talladega and Clay Counties. 



Lonicera Japonica, Thunb. (Nintooa, Sweet). 



Japanese Honeysuckle. 



A slender many-stemmed vine with hairy evergreen leaves, 

 and fragrant cream-colored (occasionally pinkish) flowers from 

 May to November. Originally cultivated for ornament, but now 

 in disrepute on accotmt of its weedy tendencies. It has escaped to 

 roadsides, railroads and thickets (protected from fire) in all the 

 southeastern states, making a decided nuisance of itself in many 

 places by growing so densely as to choke out other vegetation. 

 (See Andrews 2 and 3, in bibliography.) It is said to be com- 

 paratively easy to eradicate, though, when the ground is wanted 

 for any ]xu'pose, and it may do some good by checking erosion 

 in gullies and railroad cuts. 



It is so widely distributed over the state that it is hardly worth 

 while to give localities for it. It is scarce or absent in the moun- 

 tains and other thinly settled regions, and in poor soils, and ap- 

 parently not very common in the black belt, which is near the op- 

 posite extreme. 



L. loiigiflora (Sabine) DC, a related species, is said by Dr. Mohr to 

 be escaped from cultivation in Mobile County. 



