749 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Evropr, DANURIA, JAPAN. 
Boreal zone to Louisianian area. British North America to latitude 68°. From 
the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. New England (Maine, Mount Desert Island) to 
Georgia, Mississippi, western Louisiana, Texas, and California. 
ALABAMA: So far only observed in the Coast plain. Open marshes. Mobile County, 
banks of Mobile River. Flowers white; May, June. Weak, assurgent, diffusely 
branched. Perennial. ? : 
A form of more robust growth, with broader leaves, nearly 4 inch wide and 4 to } 
inch long, larger fruit, approaching var. latifolium Torr. On rotten logs, banks of 
Mobile River. July, September. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Canada. Kalm.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Galium triflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:80. 1803. SWEET-SCENTED BEDSTRAW. 
Ell. Sk.1:197. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 227, Chap. Fl.174. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 
2:39. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 284. 
EuRops, Asia, TO JAPAN. 
Boreal zone to Louisianian area. Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. New 
England west to Nebraska, Colorado, and Calfornia, south to Florida and northern 
Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower hills. Rich shady woods. Lauderdale 
County. Tuscaloosa County (/. 4. Smith). April, May. Local; not frequent. Per- 
ennial. 
Type locality: ‘(In umbrosis Canadae sylvis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Galium uniflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:79. 1803. 
BLACK-FRUITED Lapirs’ BEDSTRAW. 
Ell, Sk. 1:195. Chap. Fl.174. Gray, Syn. FI.N. A. 1, pt. 2:41. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coastplain. Shadedrich woods. Uplandhammocks. Mobile County, 
Springhill. Baldwin County, Montrose. Flowers white; July, August.  lruit 
August, September; plum-purple, with a bloom. Notrare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘“ Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Galium hispidulum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1:79. 1803. SCaRLET-FRUITED BEDSTRAW. 
Rubia peregrina Walt. Fl. Car. 86. 1788. Not L. 
R. brownet Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:81. 
Ell. Sk. 1:195. Gray, Man. ed. 6,227, Chap. I'l. 173. Gray, Syn. Fl. N, A. 1, pt. 
2:42, 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry copses and shaded banks. Mobile and Baldwin. 
counties. Flowers greenish white; fruit scarlet. May, June. Perennial, from a 
woody creeping base. Trequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Carolina inferiore.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
VIBURNACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 
SAMBUCUS L. Sp. Pl.1:269. 1753. Exprr. 
Twenty species, temperate regions, excepting Africa. 
Sambucus canadensis L. Sp. P].1:269. 1753. AMERICAN ELDER. 
Ell. Sk. 1:368. Gray, Man. ed. 6,217, Chap. V1.171. Gray, Syn. FIN. A. 1, pt.2:9. 
Canadian zone to Lonisianian area. Through Eastern North America from Now 
Brunswick and Saskatchewan to the Gulf, west to Dakota, mountains of Colorado, 
Utah, and Arizona,to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Damp thickets and shaded banks. Flowers May, 
i Fruit ripe September; berries shining black. Shrub or tree 15 to 20 feet 
igh. 
Economic uses: The bark, fruit, and flowers are the “elder” or “Sambucus” of 
the United States Pharmacopeia. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Canada. 1D. Kalm.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
