GRASSES. 38] 
MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern, middle, and southwestern Tennessee 
to Texas and Arizona, and east along the Gulf coast to Alabama. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Autauga County, Prattville. 
Adventive with some other plants of the Southwest. Mobile County, bay shore at 
Cedar Point. July. Rare. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab, in Mexico.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram, 272. 1855. 
PURPLE ERAGROSTIS. 
Poa pectinacea Michx. FI. Bor, Am, 1: 69. 1805. 
P, hirsuta Ell. Sk. 1:157, 1817. Not Michx. 1803. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 661. Chap, F1.564. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:542. Seribner, 
Grass. Tenn, 2:98, #. 30, f. 131. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Coast of southern Massachusetts and in New 
York, west to Minnesota and Nebraska, and south to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: From the Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain, Common and most 
abundant on sandy pine barrens. Mobile County. August to October. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in arvis Nlinoensibus.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis refracta (Muhl.) Scribner, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:49. 1894. 
MEADOW ERAGROSTIS, 
Poa refracta Muhl. Gram, 146, 1817. 
Eragrostris campestris Trin, Bull. Sci. Acad, St. Petersh. 1: 70. 1836. 
E. pectinacea var. refracta Chap. F°1. 564, 1860. 
Ell. Sk. 1:162. Gray, Man. ed. 6,661. Chap. Fl. 564, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Ilerb, 
2:542, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina to 
Florida, west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Damp flat pine barrens. Mobile County. September; 
common. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis lugens Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 22505, 1829. 
Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:542. Vasey, Inst. Am. Grass. 1, pt. 2: 1. 47. 
Mexico, (?) BRAZIL, MONTEVIDEO. 
Louisianian area. Arizona and Texas to Alabama and Florida. ? 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile. July toSeptember, 1893-94, Annual 
or perennial. ? 
Type locality: ‘Hab, ad Monte-Video et in continibus Paraguayani, (Sellow.)” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 192, 1827. FRINGED ERAGROSTIS. 
Poa ciliaris L. Syst. ed. 10, 875, 1759. 
Megastachua ciliaris Beauy. Agrost. 74, 1812. 
Chap. F1.563. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 552. 
TROPICAL REGIONS OF THE OLD AND NEW Worups. ARABIA, AFRICA, GALAPA- 
Gos, WEST INDIES TO BRAZIL. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Sandy fields, waste places. Mobile County. Septem- 
berand October; frequent. Notremote from dwellings. Probably naturalized from 
the tropics. Annual. 
Type locality: Jamaica? 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis glomerata (Walé.) L. Il. Dewey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:543. 1894. 
DENSELY SPIKED ERAGROSTIS, 
Poa glomerata Walt. F1. Car, 80, 1788. 
P. conferta EM. Sk. 12158. 1817. 
Eragrostis conferta Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser, 6,1:409. 1831. 
EIL Sk. 1c. Chap. Fl. 563. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 535, Coulter, Contr. Nat. 
Herb. 2:543. 
West INpigs, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 
