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EHRETIA P. Browne 



Ehretia elliptica de Candolle. Anaqua. 



Range. — Western Texas (from upper San Marcos River to the Rio Grande); 

 Mexico (Nuevo Leon and Coahuila to mountains of San Luis Potosi). 



NAMES IN USE 



Knackaway (Tex.). Anama (southern Texas). 



Anaqua (Tex.). Yara (southern Texas). 



Family VERBEXACE^E 



CITHAREXYLON Linnaeus 



Citharexylon fruticosnm Linnaeus. Fiddlewood. 



Range. — Southern Florida (from Cape Canaveral to the southern Keys). 

 Xote ox nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Citharexylon villosum 

 Jacquin, with which it seems to have been confused. 



NAME IN USE 



Fiddlewood (Fla.) 

 AVICENNIA Linnaeus 



Avicennia nitida Jacquin. Blackwood. 



Range. — Florida coast (from St. Augustine to the southern Keys on the east 

 coast and on the west coast from Cedar Keys to Cape Sable; Louisiana (islands 

 in Mississippi Sound and on coast in Cameron and Terrebonne Parishes) ; on 

 several of the West Indies, Bahamas. 



NAMES IN USE 



Blackwood (Fla.). Black Mangrove (Fla.). 



Blacktree (Fla.). 



Family SOLAXACEJE 



SOLANUM Linnaeus 



Solannm verbascifolium Linnaeus. 88 Potato Tree. 



Range. — Southern Florida (Meritt's Island to Biscayne Bay and to vicinity 

 of Cape Sable) ; West Indies, Bahamas, Mexico, Central America, and in tropical 

 sections of the Old World. 



NAME IN USE 



Potato Tree 



•» Formerly known only as a shrub. Within recent years, however, J. K. Small found it to be arbo- 

 rescent on Elliotts Key. Widely established in tropical countries and possibly only naturalized in Florida 

 through cultivation. 



