University of Virginia Library

May 14

• 757M. Top of N face of mountain, E ⁁sideof U.S. 43
  & about 7½ mi S. of Russellville, Franklin Co, Ala.
  Open oak—pine wood. All plants past bloom. 1—2
  m. high and growing in enormous profusion. Evidently
  quite variable. Many with glaucous leaf undersides.
  — prob. canes x alabamense. Should be revisited
  for the flowering season!


• 758M. 10 mi ESE of Fayateville on U.S. 64Lincoln Co, Tenn
  Hummocks in Willow Oak—Swamp Oak—Liquidambar
  —red maple sphagnum swamp. Plants 1½ — 2¼ m.
  Mostly past flower. Remainder as noted. (canescens)

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• 759M. Top760P= Small fld lavender with yellow blotch
  (xalabamense)
  761P = " " another plant
  762P = Pink with deep tube
  of mountain ¼ mi W. of Sewanee,
  Franklin Co, Tenn. Oak woods on both sides of U.S. 64
  Azaleas are very thick in the high woods. Plants 1—3
  meters. Many past bloom but many still in. Looks
  suspiciously like an alabamense x canescens complex
  A light scent to all of them. There are several whites,
  many with small tubes and yellow blotches.
  Colors:(a) dark red—pink tube, pink limb.
  (b) " " " " pale to whitel.
  (c) med. pink tube, pink limb
  (d) " " " pale "
  (e) " " " white "
  (f) paler " " pale pink "
  (g) " " " white "
  (h) pale lavender tube & limb
  (i) Faintly pink tube, white limb
  (j) White tube, white limb.
• 760P = small fld lavender with yellow blotch (specimen)
• 761P = " " " another plant (different)
• 762P = Fairly deep pink

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• 763M Similar situation but just E of
  Sewanee. A sizable cloned colony of pinks
  with two whites among them. To 1 meter. Low &
  bushy but perhaps induced by burning. Very
  free flowering
  (a) deep pink limbtube & limb
  (b) " " " med pink limb
  (c)Paler tube, white limb
• 763(a)P= plant of deep pink
• 763(b)P= " " med. "
  Photographed— glade in woods.