338 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



Kalmia latifolia 

 Pieris nitida 



Chdlisnia ligustrina 

 Oxydendrum 

 Gaylussacia dumosa 

 Gaykissacia frondosa 

 Polycodium stamineuni 

 Vaccinium Myrsinites 

 Vacciniuni virgatum 

 Vaccinium corymbosum 

 Symplocos 

 Styrax grandiflora 

 Styrax Americana 

 Osmanthus 



Clinopodium Georgianum 

 A'ihiirnum aceri folium 

 Viburnum semitomentosum 

 Vil)urnum nudum 



Lastly may be considered those species which seem to be more 

 abundant in Alabama than in all the rest of the world. Probably 

 no other eastern state, except Florida and possibly North Caro- 

 lina, has so many woody plants of which this can be said. Two 

 very distinct shrubs, A^ci'iusia Alahamcns'is and Croton Alabmn- 

 cnsis, are not known in any other state, though the former has 

 been seen within a few miles of Tennessee, and there is an un- 

 verified report of its occurrence in Missouri. Quite a number of 

 alleged species of Crataegus and a few of Pruiius and Tilia are 

 known only from Alabama specimens, but so few people are able 

 to distinguish them that it is hardly safe to assert that they are 

 endemic. 



The following shrubs and small trees are kncjwn in one or 

 more adjoining states, but seem to have their headquarters, so to 

 speak, in Alabama. Magnolia macrophylla, Illiciuiii Plovidaniim, 

 Hydrangea qucrcifolia, Sclunaltzia aroinatica, Hypericum anrcuni, 

 Aesculus Pavia, and Aescuhis parviflora* Most of these are very 



*Two of these were discovered by William Bartram, the first 

 botanical explorer in what is now Alabama, and most of the others 

 are mentioned in his book of Travels. All of them, as well as the Neviusia 

 and Croton, are found in Tuscaloosa County. 



