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ALABAMA: Lower division of Coast Pine belt, Coast plain. Damp sandy places. 
Washington County, Yellowpine, borders of ponds. Mobile County, low pine 
barrens. 
Type locality: ‘North Carolina to Texas and Arkansas.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Paspalum difforme Le Conte, Journ. Phys. 91: 284, 1820. DIFFORM PASPALUM. 
Vasey, Bull. Torr. Club, 13:166. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:500. Chap. FI. ed. 
3, 579, 
Louisianian area, North Carolina, Florida to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Damp sandy soil along pine-barren streams. Mobile 
County. September to October; not rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. cum priore,” i.e. ‘in Georgia.” 
Herb. Mohr. 
Paspalum boscianum [luegge, Gram. Monogr. 170. 1810. 
PURPLISH PASPALUM, BULLGRASS. 
Paspalum undulatum Poir. Encyel. Suppl. 4 : 316. 1816. 
P. purpurascens Ell, Sk. 1: 108. 1816. 
Ell. 8k.]l.c. Chap. F1.571. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb, 3:19. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 
2:33, 1.5, f. 17. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina, western Tennessee ; Florida to 
Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Low damp fields and grassy swales. 
Clay County, Elders, 1,000 feet. Cullman County, 800 feet. Southward everywhere. 
Flowers August to October. Abundant, particularly in the Coast plain. 
Type locality: ‘‘In Carolina detexit Clarissimus Bosc. 
Economic uses: Valuable spontaneous hay crop. 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Paspalum virgatum L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10,855, 1758-59, 
Griseb. Fl]. Brit. W. Ind. 543. 
West INpIESs, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 
Lounisianian area. Adventive from tropical America and naturalized in Louisiana 
and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Low places, roadsides, along ditches, waste ground. May to A gust. 
Stems 3 to 4 feet high. First observed in the western suburbs of Mobile, 1895; since 
extensively spreading into fields and grass plots, threatening to become a wortuless 
weed. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ANTHAENANTIA Beauv. Agrost.48. 1812. 
(AULAXANTHUS EI]. Sk. 1: 102. 1817.) 
Three species, perennials, subtropical America. Southern Atlantic States, 2 
species. 
Anthaenantia villosa (Michx.) Beauv. Agrost. 48, t. 10, f. 7, 1812. 
Hairy ANTHAENANTIA. 
Phalaris villosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 1:48. 1803. 
Aulaxanthus ciliatus Ell. Sk, 1:102. 1817. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast Pine belt. Coast plain, Grassy pine barrens, close sandy or 
gravelly soil. Mobile County, Grandbay. Monroe County, Claiborne. Baldwin 
County, Montrose, August. Not infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in sylvis sabulosis Carolinae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mobr. 
Anthaenantia rufa (Ell.) Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 9:39, 1881. 
REDDISH ANTHAENANTIA. 
Aularanthus rufus Ell. Sk, 1:103. 1817. 
Panicum rufum Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1:35, 1835, 
Ell. Sk. 1. ce. Chap. Fl. 577. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina, Florida, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Low grassy pine barrens, damp 
sandy soil. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County, Grandbay. Bald- 
win County. June, July; more frequent than the last. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in savannas, and damp soils in the pine barrens, midway 
between Saltcatcher Bridge and Murphys on the Edisto.” 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
