398 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Springy and muddy places. Lee 
County, Auburn (Baker §: Earle). Lawrence County, Moulton. Cullman County, 
800 feet altitude. Tuscaloosa, St. Clair, Washington, and Mobile counties. Flowers 
June, July; common. Annual. 
Specimens from Auburn approach by the broad base of the low tubercle E. engel- 
manni Steud. 
Type locality not ascertained; in Roemer & Schultes: “In paludosis limosis humi- 
dis, aquis stagnantibus, Pensylvaniae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eleocharis montana (H.B.K.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2:153. 1817. 
GLOSSY SPIKE-RUSH. 
Scirpus montanus H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1:226. 1815. 
Eleocharis dombeyana Kunth, Enum. 2: 145. 1837. 
EF. arenicola Torr. ; Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 5:237. 1847. 
Chap. F'1.516. Coulter, Contr. Nat, Herb, 2:469. Wats. Bot. Calif, 2: 222. 
MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to western Texas, and southern 
California. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Miry borders of marshes. Mobile County, river swamps 
near Three-mile Creek. Rhizoma dark brown, wiry, long-creeping. Flowers in 
June. In the open forming large patches of bright glossy green. Perennial. 
Type locality: “Creseit in monte Quindin, alt. 1600 hex.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
Bleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2:151. 1817. 
CREEPING SPIKE-RUSH. 
Seirpus palustris 1. Sp. P1l.1:47. 1753.. 
Ell. 8k,1:77. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 575. Chap. FI. 518. 
Europe, Asta, MALay ARCHIPELAGO, AUSTRALASIA, 
Boreal region to Louisianian area. Throughout North America from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific. 
Form with slender, almost filiform, glaucescent culms. 
ALABAMA: So far observed only in the marshes of the Mobile River, where it is 
found in abundance. May, June. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Europae fossis et inundatis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bleocharis acicularis (L.) Roem. & Schult, Syst. Veg. 2:154. 1817, 
NEEDLE SPIKE-RUSH, 
Scirpus acicularis L. Sp. Pl. 1:48. 1753, 
S. trichodes Muhl. Gram. 30. 1817. 
Kl. Sk.1:76. Gray, Man. ed. 6,576. Chap. F1.518. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2:221. Coul- 
ter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 468. 
Evrore, Asta, NORTH AMERICA, MEXICO, 
Canadian to Lounisianian area, From Nova Scotia and Quebec to the Gulf, and 
across the continent; from British Columbia to southern California, 
ALABAMA: Throughout the State, in Swampy places; common. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Europa sub aquis purioribus.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eleocharis chaetaria Roem. & Schult, Syst. Veg. 2:154. 1817. 
FEW-FLOWERED SPIKE-RUSH. 
Scirpus chactarius Spreng. Pugill.1:4. 1813. 
Heleocharis triflora Boeck. Flora, 63:437, 1880, 
West INprEs, MEXICO, GUATEMALA, East INDIES. 
Louisianian area. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Springy places in sandy soil. Baldwin County, Daphne, 
August 16. Copiously about the spring. Only locality known in the United States, 
Perennial. 
Type locality not ascertained ; locality of Roemer & Schultes: “In graminosis 
humidiusculis Caleutae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bleocharis tortilis (Link) Schult. Mant. 2:92, 1824. TWISTED SPIKE-RUSH. 
Scirpus tortilis Link, Jahrb, 3:78. 1820, 
S. simplex Ell. Sk.1:76. 1816. 
Eleocharis simpler Torr. Ann. Lye. N.Y. 32306. 1836. 
Ell. Sk, 1:76. Gray, Man, ed. 6, O74. Chap. Fl. 516. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2: 468. 
