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 Diospyros texana Scbeele. Mexican Persimmon. 



Range. — Texas (Colorado and Rio Concho rivers) to Mexico (Nuevo Leon). 



Names in use. — Mexican Persimmon (Tex.); Black Persimmon 

 (Tex.); Cbapote (Tex.). 



Family SYMPLOCACE^. 



SYMPLOCOS Jacq. 



Symplocos tinctoria (Linn.) L'Her. Sweetleaf. 



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

 region to the'Blue Ridge Mountains, and through the Gulf States (in Alabama up to 

 Tennessee River) to western Louisiana and southern Arkansas (border counties). 



Names in use.— Sweetleaf (Del., N. 0., S. 0., Fla., Ala.); Yellow- 

 wood (N. O.j S. C, Ala.) ; Horse Sugar (Del., Ala., La.) ; Florida LaureJ 



(Fla.). 



Family STYRACACE^. 

 MOHRODENDRON Britton. 



Mohrodendron carolinum (Linn.) Britton. Silverbell-tree. 



Halesia tetraptera Ellis. 



Range. — From West Virginia (mountains) to southern Illinois and south to middle 

 Florida, northern Alabama (Lauderdale, Cullman, and Talladega counties), and 

 Mississippi through Arkansas and western Louisiana to eastern Texas. 



Names in use. — Snowdrop-tree (R. I., Pa. (cult.), N. 0., S. C, Fla., 

 La.); Silverbell-tree (K. I. (cult.), Ala., Fla., Miss.); Silverbell (Pa., 

 cult.); Wild Olive-tree (Tenn.); Bell-tree (Tenn.); Four- winged Hale- 

 sia (Ala.); Opossum-wood (Ala.); Rattlebox (Tex.); Calicowood (Tex., 

 111.); Tisswood (Tenn.). 

 Mohrodendron carolinum meehani (Sarg.) nom. nov. 



Meehan Silverbell-tree. 



Range. — Originated in the nursery of Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa., 

 and so far known only in cultivation. 



Mohrodendron dipterum (Ellis) Britton. Snowdrop-tree. 



Halesia diptera Ellis. 



RANGE. — Coast region from South Carolina to northern Florida, and through the 

 Gulf States (mainly in coast plain of Alabama) to Texas; northward through Louisi- 

 ana to central Arkansas. 



Names in cjse. — Snowdrop-tree (11. I., Del. (cult.), S. C, Ala., La., 

 Tex.); Silverbell-tree (K. I., Del. (cult.), Miss., Tex.); Cow Licks (La.). 



Family OLEACEJE. 



FRAXINUS Linn. 



Fraxinus cuspidata Torr. Fringe Ash, 



Range. — P'rom southwestern Texas (canyon of Rio Grande River) through southern 

 New Mexico to Arizona (Grand Canyon of Colorado River), and southward into 

 Mexico (mountains of Cohahuila and Nuevo Leon to Santa Eulalia Mountains in 

 Chihuahua). 



