222 MISCELLANEOUS CIRCULAR 92, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Family EBENACE^E 

 DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 



♦Diospyros virginiana Linnseus. Persimmon. 



Range. — Connecticut (Light-house Point, New Haven) and Long Island 

 southward to southern Florida (De Soto County); westward through southern 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio, southern Indiana and Illinois, southeastern Iowa, east- 

 ern Kansas, Oklahoma, southwestern Arkansas and in the Gulf States to Texai 

 (Colorado River). 



NAMES IN USE 



Persimmon (Conn., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Simmon (N. C, Fla.). 



Del., Va., W. Va., N. C, S. C, Ga., Possumwood (Fla.). 



Fla., Miss., La., Ky., Mo., Tex., Common Persimmon (lit.). 



Ark., 111., Ind., Iowa, Ohio). Winter Plum. 



Date Plum (N. J., Tenn.). Seeded Plum. 

 Plaqueminier (La.). 



Diospyros virginiana platycarpa Sargent. Persimmon. 



Range. — Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and eastern Kansas; probably else- 

 where within the range of the species. 



NAME IN USE 



Persimmon 



Diospyros virginiana mosieri Sargent. Persimmon. 



Range. — Southern Florida (Dade County). 



NAME IN USB 



Persimmon 



Diospyros texana Scheele. 67 Black Persimmon. 



Range. — Southern (Colorado River) and southwestern Texas (extending into 

 central part of State) and to Mexico (Nuevo Leon). 



NAMES IN USE 



Mexican Persimmon (Tex.). Chapote (Tex.). 



Black Persimmon (Tex.). 



Family SYMPLOCACE^ 



SYMPLOCOS L'Heritier 



Symplocos tinctoria (Linnaeus) L'Heritier. Sweetleaf. 



Range. — From southern Delaware (peninsula) to northern Florida; west in 

 the Atlantic region, the Carolinas on the Blue Ridge Mountains, and through 

 the Gulf States (in Alabama up to Tennessee River) to eastern Texas and southern 

 Arkansas. 



NAMES IN USE 



Sweetleaf (Del., N. C, S. C, Fla., Horse Sugar (Del., Ala., La.). 



Ala.). Florida Laurel (Fla.). 



Yellowwood (N. C, S. C, Ala.). Common Sweetleaf (lit.). 



17 Under the genus Brayodendron Small, J. K. Small (Flor. S. E. U. S., 908, 1903), has adopted for this 

 persimmon the name Brayodendron Texanum (Cheele) Small. Differences in the structure of the flowers, 

 guch as the number of stamens, absence of staminodia, united styles, etc., distinguished this genus from 

 Diospyrot. 



