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ALABAMA: Mountainregion. Rich shady woods. Blount County, Warnock Moun- 
tain, 1,500 feet altitude. April, May; infrequent. 
Type locality (Beck, Bot. U. 8.): “Shady woods. Miss|ouri].” 
Trillium erectum L. Sp. Pl. 1:340. 1753. ILL-SCENTED WAKE-ROBIN. 
Trillium pendulum Willd. Neue Schrift. 3:421. 1801. 
T. rhomboideum Michx. F). Bor. Am, 1:215. 1803. 
Ell. Sk.1:427. Gray, Man. ed. 6,530. Chap. FIL. 478. 
East Srperia, JAPAN. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia and Ontario; from New England, 
throughout the Ohio Valley, to Missouri, south along the mountains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills. Woods. Jefferson County. Flowers white. April; in- 
frequent. 
Economic uses: The rhizomas of this, 7. sessile and T. cernuum, are indiscriminately 
collected for medicinal use under the wame of birth-root. Used by the aborigines, 
and now in eclectic practice. 
Type locality: “‘Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Trillium stylosum Nutt. Gen. 1: 239. 1818. CATESBY’S WAKE-ROBIN. 
Trillium catesbaet Ell. Sk.1:429, and 7. nervosum Ell. 1. c. 
Ell. 8k.1.c. Chap. Fl. 479. 
Carolinian area. Mountains of Carolina and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion. Richshaded banks. Dekalb County, Mentone, 1,600 
feet. Auburn County (F. S. Karle). 
Type locality: ‘‘ Upper Carolina and Georgia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Trillium recurvatum lanceolatum Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 273. 1879. 
Trillium lanceolatum Boykin, name only, in Herb. Torr. 
Chap. Fl. Suppl. 656; ed. 3, 505. 
Carolinian area. Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Ascribed to this State by Chapman, Flora, 1. ¢. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Georgia and Alabama.” 
Trillium cernuum L. Sp. P].1:339. 1753. NoppING TRILLIUM. 
Ell. Sk.1:428. Gray, Man. ed. 6,531. Chap. Fl. 478. ; 
Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario; New 
England south to New Jersey along the mountains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills. Tuscaloosa County (2. A. Smith). Flowers March, April. 
Rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ALETRIS L. Sp. Pl. 1:319. 1753. 
Two species, perennials, Eastern Asia, North America, Atlantic America, 2. 
Aletris farinosa L. Sp. Pl. 1: 319. 1753. WHITE STaR GRASS. 
Aletris alba Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:189. 1803. 
Ell. Sk 1:398. Gray, Man, ed.6,513. Chap. FI. 470. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario and New England west to Minnesota, 
from New York south to Florida, west to Arkansas and Missouri. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. Damp light soil, prairies, borders 
of swamps; most frequent in the pine barrens. Autauga County. Prattville. Chil- 
ton, Washington, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers white. May, June; 
frequent. 
Economic uses: The root, as “colic root,” is used medicinally. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in America septentrionali.” 
- Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Aletris aurea Walt. Fl. Car. 121. 1788. GOLDEN STaR Grass. 
Ell. Sk. 1:399. Gray, Man. ed.6,513. Chap. F].470. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:426. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Pine barrens. New Jersey along the coast to 
Florida, west to eastern Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast Pine belt to the Coast plain. Low damp pine barrens. Wash- 
