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F. polystachya Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 1:66, 1803. 
Leptochloa fascienlaris Gray, Man. 588, 1848. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 658. Chap. FI. 559. 
West INpiEs, MEXICO, COLOMBIA. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of Rhode Island, New York to Florida 
and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Salt marshes. Mobile County, Dauphin Island. June 
to July; rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Ex Amer. merid, Comm. D. Richard.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
PHRAGMITES Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134. 1820. 
Three species, temperate and tropical regions, Europe, Asia, and America. 
Phragmites phragmites (L.) Karst. Deutsche FI. 879, 1880-1885, REED. 
Arundo phragmites L, Sp. P1.1:81. 1758. 
Phragmites communis Trin, Fund. Agrost. 134, 1820. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 658. Chap. F1.567. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 21537, 
Throughout the temperate zones of the Old World, and over the North American 
continent to Central America. 
Canadian zone to Louisianian area, thence to the Pacific coast. 
ALABAMA: Scattered over the State. Abundant in the marshes of the coast region, 
Mobile County, river delta. August to October, Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Europae lacubus, fluviis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SIEGLINGIA Bernh. Syst. Verz. Pfl. Erl. 40. 1800. 
(Trropia R. Br. Prodr. Fl. N. Holl. 1: 182. 1810.) 
(TricusPis Beauv. Agrost. 77. 1812.) 
About 27 species, of temperate zones. North America 17, mostly of the Sonoran 
continental plains. 
Sieglingia purpurea (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 789. 1891. SAND GRASS. 
Aira purpurea Walt, Fl, Car. 78. 1788. 
Uralepis purpurea Nutt. Gen. 1:62, 1818. 
Tricuspis purpurea Gray, Man. 589, 1848. 
Triplasis purpurea Chap. F1. 560, 1860. 
Ell. Sk. 1:152. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 658. Chap. F1.560, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
22539. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Southern New England, Ohio, Michigan, IIli- 
nois, and New York; south along the coast to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Drifting sands on the seashore, Baldwin County, 
eastern shore of Mobile Bay. July to August; frequent; annual. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sieglingia americana (Beanv.) Kuntze, Rey. Gen. Pl. 2: 789, 1891, 
SOUTHERN SAND GRASS. 
Triplasis americana Beauv. Agrost. 81, t. 76, f. 10. 1812. 
Uralepis cornuta EW. Sk. 1:580. 1817. 
Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana, 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt and Littoral belt. Loose sands. Mobile County, 
Springhill, on barren pine ridges; Dauphin Island. Drifting sands on the seashore. 
Baldwin County, shore Bon Secour Bay. July toSeptember; not rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Ce savant l’a raportée des Etats Unis d’Amerique.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sieglingia stricta (Nutt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2:789, 1891. 
NARROW-SPIKED SIEGLINGIA, 
Windsoria stricla Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser, 2,5:147. 1833-1837. 
Triodia stricta Vasey, Spec. Rep. U.S. Dept. Agr. 63: 35, 1883. 
aouite Contr, Nat. Herb. 2:538. Britt. & Brown. Ill. Fl. 1: 185, f. 422. Chap. FI. 
ed. 3, 610. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Mississippi, Louisiana to Texas, Arkansas and 
Kansas. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie belt. Wileox County (S. B, Buckley). July; rare, 
Perennial. 
