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NAMES IX USE 



Slippery Elm (Calif.). Flannel Bush (Calif.). 



Silver Oak (Calif.). California Slippery Elm (Calif.). 



Leatherwood (Calif.). raise Slippery Elm (Calif.). 



Fremontia (Calif.). Mountain Leatherwood vCalif.). 



STESCUIIA Linnaeus 



Sterculia platanifolia Linnaeus. Chinese Parasol-tree. 



Range. — Native of China and Japan. Widely planted for ornament in the 

 South Atlantic (as far north as the District of Columbia), and Gulf States, and 

 now growing spontaneously in several of the Gulf State?. 



NAMES IN USE 



Parasol-tree. Chinese Parasol-tree. 



Family THEACE^E 



GORDONIA Ellis 



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Gordonia lasianthus (Linnaeus) Ellis. Lohlolly-bay. 



Range. — Coast region from southern Virginia to Florida (Indian River and 

 Cape Romano) and west in the Gulf Coast region to the Mississippi River; in- 

 land in Georgia to Augusta. 



NAMES IN USE 



Loblolly Bay (N. C, S. C, Ga., Ala., Bay (lit.). 



Fla., Miss., La.). Swamp Laurel. 



Tan Bav (Miss., Fla., La.). Holly Bay. 



Black Laurel (N. C). 



FRANKLINIA Marshall 



Franklinia alatamaha Marshall. 43 Franklinia. 



Range. — At present known only in cultivation. Originally (1765) found 

 growing wild in Georgia (near Fort Barrington on what is now known as the 

 Altamaha River), but it has not been seen since 1790. 



Note on nomenclature. — Originally described as Franklinia alatamaha 

 Marshall; later as Gordonia pubescens L'Heritier, Gordonia Altamaha (Marshall) 

 Sargent, and as Franklinia Altamaha Marshall. 



NAME in use 



Franklinia 



< ! F. V. Coville has called the writer's attention to the existence of Early's map of Georgia, published 

 in ISIS, on which the river we now call Altamaha is spelled Alatamaha. This fact would seem to show 

 clearly that Marshall's original designation, Franklinia Alatamaha, of this tree was written in accordance 

 witn the early spelling of this Georgia river. On this ground the writer has adopted the original spelling, 

 Alatamaha. In Gordonia Alatamaha Sargent (Man. Trees N. A. ed. 2, 752, 1922) this spelling is recognized. 



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