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DANTHONIA DC. FI. France, 3:32. 1805. Oar GRASS. 
One hundred species, temperate and warmer regions, more than halfin South Africa, 
North America, 5 or 6 species. 
Danthonia spicata (L.) Beauv.; Roem. & Schult, Syst. Veg. 2:690. 1817. 
COMMON WILD OaT GRASS. 
Avena spicata L. Sp. P1. 1:80. 1753. 
A, glumosa Miehx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:72. 1803. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 654. Chap. FI. 569. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Newfoundland and Quebec, west to the Pacilic ; 
New England, west to Dakota, south to Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to central prairies. Dry copses, border of woods, 
Madison County. Dallas County, Marion Junction. Jane, July; not infrequent. 
Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Pensylvania.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mobr. 
Danthonia compressa Austin; Peck, Rep. Reg. N. Y. St. Univ. 22:54. 1869. 
MountTAIN WILD OAT GRASS. 
Danthonia alleni Aust. Bull. Torr. Club, 3:21. 1872. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 654. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 665. Scribner, Grass, Tenn. 2: 85, t. 29, f. 114. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas, New England to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 
south to North Carolina and Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry rocky ridges. Madison County, Huntsville. 
May, June; not frequent. Perennial, 
Type locality: ‘Woods, Danube, Herkimer County, [N. Y.], July, 1868. C. F. 
Austin.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Danthonia glabra Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 43. 1897. SmooTH WILD OaT GRASS. 
Carolinian area. New Jersey to upper Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rocky ledges. Dekalb County, summit of Lookout 
Mountain, 2,000 feet altitude. June, 1893. Rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Type specimens collected by Dr.John K. Small, on Little Stone 
Mountain, Dekalb County, Georgia, on July 5, 1895,” 
Herb. Geol, Surv. 
Danthonia sericea Nutt.Gen.1:71. 1818. Sinky WILp Oat GRAss. 
Avena spicata EN. Sk. 1:174, 1817. Not L. 
Ell. lc. Gray, Man. ed. 6,654. Chap. FI. 569. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 84, ¢. 28, f. 17?. 
Carolinian to Louisianian area. Florida, along the coast to southern Massachiu- 
setts, west to Mississippi and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry pine barrens. Lee County, 
Auburn (Baker §° Earle), Washington County, Yellowpine. Escambia, Clarke, 
Baldwia, and Mobile counties. May; frequent. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in the upper districts of Georgia and South Carolina, in high 
land. Columbia County, Ga.” 
Herb. Geol, Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
GAUDINIA Beauv. Agrost. 95, 1812. 
Gaudinia fragilis (L.) Beauv. Agrost. 95, 1812. 
Avena fragilis L. Sp. Pl. 1:80. 1753, 
A fugitive from southern Europe, Mobile County, on ballast. August. Observed 
once only, 1889. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Lusitania, Hispania. Loe/l.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mobr. 
CAPRIOLA Adans. Fam, Pl. 2:31. 1763. 
(CyNopON Rich. ; Pers. Syn. 1:85, 1805.) 
Capriola dactylon (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 764. 1891. BERMUDA GRASS, 
Panicum dactylon L. Sp. Pl. 1:58. 1753. 
Cynodon dactylon Pers. Syn. 1:85. 1805. 
Ell Sk. 1:133. Gray, Man. ed, 6, 654, Chap. Fl. 557. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2: 86, 
1.29, f. 115. 
SOUTHERN EUROPE. 
Naturalized in nearly all warmer regions. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Extensively spread in the valleys from Penn- 
sylvania to Florida, west to Texas, sparingly on the Pacific coast. 
