GRASSES. 389 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New England. Range of the type. Reported 
from Nebraska. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Rocky and dry shaded banks. Mobile County, found only 
on borders of hammock lands, western bay shore. June, Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. ad ripas et in siecis Pennsylvaniae, floret Julio.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Elymus canadensis L. Sp. Pl. 1: 83.~ 1753. 
CANADIAN WILD RYE OR LYME GRASS. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 673. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2:550. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Canada to Georgia, west to Texas and Arkansas, 
ALABAMA: Central prairie. Montgomery, Pentulalla Creek, Dry banks. July. 
Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Canada. Kalm,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
HYSTRIX Moench, Meth, 294. 1794. 
(ASPRELLA Willd. Enum. 132. 1809.) 
(GYMNOsSTICHUM Schreb. Beschr. Graes, 2: 127. 1810.) 
Four species, temperate zones. Siberia, New Zealand. North America, 2 species. 
Hystrix hystrix (L.) Millspaugh, Fl. W. Va. 474. 1892. BoTrLe BrRusi Grass. 
Elymus hystrix L. Sp. Pl ed. 2,1: 124. 1762. 
Gymnostichum hystrix Schreb, Beschr. Graes. 2: 127, t. 47. 1810. 
Ell. Sk. 1:181. Gray, Man, ed. 6, 674. Chap. F1.567, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:551. Scribner, Grass Tenn. 2: 127, t. 47, f. i835. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New Brunswick, Ontario; New England to 
Nebraska, south to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Cullman County. Blount County, Warnock Moun- 
tain. June; not frequent. Perennial. , 
Type locality not given. 
Herb. Geol, Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
ARUNDINARIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 1:73. 1803. 
About 24 species, perennials. ’emperate America, Asia. 
Arundinaria gigantea (Walt.) Chap. F1.561. 1860. CANE. 
Arundo gigantea Walt. Fl. Car. 81. 1788. 
Ell. Sk. 1:96, in part. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 674. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:551. 
Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2: 129, t. 47, f. 187. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, From southern Tennessee and lower North 
Carolina to Florida, central Texas, and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Alluvial banks of all the larger streams. Fruit received from Lauder- 
dale County in 1893, and from Russell County in 1895. April, May. Seed crop in 
Russell County produced for the first time within the memory of the present gener- 
ation, and in greatest abundance. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Arundinaria tecta (Walt.) Muhl. Gram. 191. 1817. Switcn CANE REED, 
Arundo tecta Walt. 1. Car. 81. 1788. 
Arundinaria macrosperma var. suffruticosa Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. 26:15. 1868. 
Ell, Sk. 1:97,in part. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 674. Chap. Fl. 561. Coulter, Contr. 
Nat. Herb. 2:551. Seribner, Grass, Tenn, 2: 129, t. 47, f. 187. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Middle and lower country of the South Atlan- 
tic States from southern Virginia to Florida; Kentucky, Ohio, southern Illinois, 
southwestern Missouri, and Arkansas to the Gulf States west to Texas. 
This is the cane of the canebrakes in the alluvial forests subject only to occa- 
sional overflow, and of the damp black lands of the Prairie region. 
ALABAMA: Over the State outside of the mountains and table-lands; most frequent 
from the Central Pine region to the coast, along the water courses and in low, damp 
woods. Flowers April and May; flowering stalks mostly from naked radical 
shoots, scarcely over 12 or 18 inches high, 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
