440 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
L. superbum var. carolinianum Chap. FI. 484. 1860. 
Ell. Sk. 1:388. Chap. Fl. 484. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi, 
Louisiana, and Arkansas. 
‘ ALABAMA: Mountain region to Lower Pine belt. Dry woods. Cullman County. 
Shelby County (£..4. Smith). Mobile County. Flowers orange vermilion with small 
brown spots. July; not rare. i 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in herbosis humidis Carolinae inferioris.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Lilium catesbaei Walt. Fl. Car.123. 1788. CaTrEsBy’s LILy. 
Ell. Sk. 1:387. Gray, Man.ed.6,529. Chap. FI. 484. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi 
and southern Missouri. : 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low wet pine barrens. Mobile and Baldwin counties. 
Flowers scarlet, with orange. July; not rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘South Carolina.” 
Herb. Mohr. 
ERYTHRONIUM L. Sp. PI. 1:305. 1753. 
Seven species, perennials, north temperate zone, Japan. North America, 5. Atlantic 
States, 2. 
Erythronium americanum Ker-Gawl. Bot. Mag. 27: t. 1113. 1808. 
YELLOW ADDER’s TONGUE. 
Erythronium dens-canis Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 1:198. 1803. Not L. 
Ell. Sk.1:389. Gray, Man. ed. 6,528. Chap. F1. 484. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia and Ontario; New England west 
to Minnesota, Missouri, and Arkansas; New York to the Ohio Valley; south to mid- 
dle Florida. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills. Rich shaded banks. Tuscaloosa County (Z. A. Smith). 
March to April. Flowers yellow, spotted brown. Rare. 
Type locality of E. dens-canis Michx.: ‘‘Hab.in frigidioribus Americae septentri- 
onalis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
QUAMASIA Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 2: 265. 1818. 
(CamassIA Lindl, Bot. Reg. t. 1486. 1832.) 
Four species, perennials, North American. Eastern 1, Pacific 3. 
Quamasia esculenta (Ker-Gawl.) Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11:65. 1897. 
WILD HyYacinru. 
Scilla esculenta Ker-Gawl. Bot. Mag. 38: t. 1574. 1818. 
Phalangium esculentum Nutt. ; Ker-Gawl. Bot. Mag. 38: 4.1574. 1813. As synonym. . 
Lemotrys hgacinthina Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3:51. 1836. 
Camassia fraseri Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 2 [pt.4]:176. 1855. 
Scilla fraseri Gray, Man. ed. 2,469. 1856. 
Quamasia hyacinthina Britton in Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl.1:423. 1896, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,523. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 656. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 435. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario; Pennsylvania to Minnesota and 
through the Ohio Valley to Missouri, south along the lower mountains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Prairie region. Rich copses. Sumter County, Livingston (Z. A. 
Smith). Flowers lilac. April; infrequent. 
Type locality: According to F. V. Coville, op. cit., the type specimens j:robably 
came from near St. Louis, Mo. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
YUCCA L. Sp. Pl. 1:319, 1753. 
About 1 dozen species, of warmer and temperate Mexico, Central America, and 
North America; arid plains of the Lower Sonoran area to the Pacific. East of the 
Mississippi River 2 species. 
Yucca aloifolia L. Sp. Pl.1:319. 1753. SPANISH DaGcER. 
Ell. Sk.1:401. Chap. F1.485. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 582. 
MExIco, West INDIES. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina along the coast to Florida and Louisiana. 
