552 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Prunus injucunda Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25: 149. 1898. 
Carolinian area. Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, rocky summits. Talladega County, among sandstone 
cliffs, Alpine Mountain, near the Signal Station, September, 1892. Without fruit. 
Type locality: ‘In sandy soil on the granite districts about Stone Mountain, Ga.” 
Prunus gracilis Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 5:243, 1847. 
Low PLuM. 
Carolinian area. Tennessee, Kansas, Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. Sandy open copses. Dekalb 
County. Lookout Mountain, near Mentone. Lee County (Baker J§- Earle). Low 
shrub. Flowers in March. Infrequent. : 
Type locality : ‘Open post-oak woods west of the Brazos.” 
Prunus serotina Ehrh. Beitr. 3:20. 1788. 
Ell. Sk. 1:541. Gray, Man. ed. 6,152. Chap. F1. 120. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:103. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 4:50, ¢. 159. ; 
Mexico, PERU, COLOMBIA. 
Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Newfoundland, Ontario, and Manitoba; New 
England west to Dakota, south to Florida, and throughout the Gulf States to Texas 
and Arizona; mountains of Mexico. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Scattered through the mountains, more rarely in the 
lower districts, where it is scarcely indigenous, disseminated by birds. Flowers 
white, March, April; fruit ripe in June, black, palatable. 
Economic uses: A most valuable timber tree. The inner bark is the ‘‘ wild cherry 
bark,” “Prunus virginiana,” of the United States Pharmacopwia. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Prunus serotina neo-montana (Small) Sudworth, Nomencl. Arb. Fl. U.S. 245. 1897. 
MountvalIn BLACK CHERRY, 
Cerasus serotina var. montana Small, Mem. Torr. Club, 4: 114. 1893. 
Prunus serotina montana Britt. Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 357.1894. Not Prunus montana 
Marsh., 1785, nor Koch, 1854. 
Allegheniau and Carolinian areas. Southwestern Virginia to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Open rocky summits of the higher ranges. Talla- 
dega County,Alpine Mountain, near the flagstaff station, 1,800 to 2,000 feet; first 
observed in 1892, Clay County, Che-aw-ha Mountain, bare cliffs, 2,400 feet; July 31, 
fruit not quite mature. Tree 25 to 35 feet high, bark very rough and with drooping 
branches. 
Type locality: ‘‘On the “balds” near the summit of White Top Mountain, 5,500 
feet altitude, southwestern Virginia. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Prunus alabamensis sp. nov. ALABAMA CHERRY. 
A tree below medium size, 25 to 30 feet high, and scarcely over 6 inches in diameter ; 
leaves rather thick, broadly ovate, rounded or slightly narrowed at the base, from 
3 to 4 inches long and 1 to 14 inches wide, short-acuminate, blunt or acutish, bluntly 
serrate, with the teeth rather distant and close adpressed, glandular-tipped, smooth 
and of a deep green above, dull on the lower surface, and finely pubescent by short 
simple or forked hairs, which along the midrib and principal veinlets become longer, 
villous, and more dense, the veinlets somewhat dark, prominent; racemes elongated, 
oo erect (never drooping), the rachis and pedicels, like the calyx, closely pubes- 
cent. 
In the specimens from Red Mountain the petals already withered were mostly shed. 
Drupe reddish to black, the few seen in shape and size similar to those of Prunus 
serotina, 
The trunk is clear of limbs for the height of about 8 to 10 feet, the limbs spreading 
and finally inclined to be drooping. 
A distinct species readily recognized by the characters of the leaves and inflores- 
cence as described. 
Carolinian area. Georgia (Meriwether County, Beadle, 1899). 
_ALABAMA: Mountain region. Red Mountain, near Birmingham, on the benches of 
siliceons ferruginons strata, about 1,000 to 1,200 feet altitude; just past flowering 
May 11,1898. Talladega County, Childersburg (Biltmore Herb. 1899). 
Prunus caroliniana Ait. Hort. Kew. 2:540. 1789. 
Mock ORANGE. LAUREL CHERRY. WILD PREACH. 
El. Sk.1:540. Chap. Fl. 120. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:103. Sargent, Silv. 
N. A. 4:50, t. 160. 
