604 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Type locality: ‘‘Damp woods, Taconic and Catskill Mountains, New York, and 
Alleghenies from Pennsylvania southward.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Tex monticola mollis (Gray) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:217. 1894. 
Tlex mollis Gray, Man. ed. 5, 306. 1867. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 108. 
Carolinian area. Alleghenies from Pennsylvania to North Carolina and Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lee County, Auburn (J. S. Larle). Rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘Burgoons Gap, Alleghenies of Pennsylvania (J. R. Lowrie, Porter), 
and along the mountains in the Southern States.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Ilex coriacea (Pursh) Chap. Fl. 270. 1860. TALL INKBERRY, 
Prinos coriaceus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept.1:221. 1814. 
Ilex lucida Torr. & Gray; Wats. Bibl. Ind. 159. 1878. 
Ell. Sk. 2:708. Chap. Fl. 270. 
Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida to eastern Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Swamps along pine-barrenstreams. Lee County, Auburn 
(Baker § Earle), Baldwin County, Point Clear. Mobile County. Flowers white, 
April; fruit ripe in September and October, shining black. ‘Tall'evergreen shrub 
8 to 15 feet high; frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘In sandy woods, near the banks of rivers: Georgia. Znslen.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Ilex glabra (L.) Gray, Man. ed. 2, 264. 1856. INKBERRY. 
Prinos glaber L. Sp. Pl. 1:330. 1753. 
Ell. Sk.2:707. Gray, Man. ed.6,109. Chap. Fl. 270. 
Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisianian areas. Nova Scotia on the seashore; 
coast of Massachusetts south to Virginia and Florida, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Low sandy pine barrens. Autauga 
and Elmore counties. Macon County, south to Mobile and Baldwin counties. 
Flowers white, May; fruit ripe in October, black, remaining over winter. Ever- 
green shrub 3 to 4 feet high; common, in the flat pine woods along the coast. 
Economic uses: Like most of the species of the genus, a good bee plant. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Canada. Kalm.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Tlex verticillata (L.) Gray, Man. ed. 2, 264. 1856. Buack ALDER. WINTER Berry. 
Prinos verticillatus L. Sp. Pl. 1:330. 1753. 
Ell. Sk. 2:706. Gray, Man.ed.6,109. Chap. FI. 270. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, west to 
southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, south to Florida, and along the Gulf to 
Louisiana. 
ALaBaMa: Throughout the State. Low banks of streams, alluvial swamps. 
Cullman County, 800 feet. Montgomery County. Baldwin County, Stockton. 
Flowers dull white, April; fruit ripe in October; drupes scarlet. Deciduous shrub 
6tol0feethigh. Nowhereabundant. Some forms of this polymorphous shrub might 
be referred to the var. padifolia (Willd., Torr. & Gray). 
Economic uses: The bark was officially recognized in earlier editions of the United 
States Pharmacopwia under the name of black alder bark. 
Type locality: ‘“ Hab. in Virginia,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CELASTRACEAE. Staff-tree Family. 
EUONYMUS L. Sp. Pl. 197. 1753. Starr TREE. 
About 60 species, temperate regions, mountaius of India, China, J apan, Europe. 
North America, 3, 
Huonymus americanus L. Sp. Pl. 1: 197. 1753. STRAWBERRY Busu. 
Ell. Sk.1:292. Gray, Man. ed. 6,110. Chap. FI. 76. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New York, West Virginia, and Tennessee to 
Florida, west to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri. 
_ ALABAMA: Mountain region to Central Pine belt. Light soil, on shady banks and 
in woodlands. Clay County, banks of Talladega Creek, 800 to 1,000 feet. Lee 
