400 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Warrior table-land to Central Pine belt. Marshy 
places. Lauderdale County, in the barrens. Cullman County. Tuscaloosa County 
(M.A. Smith). July; notrare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in America boreali.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb, Mohr. 
DICHROMENA Miechx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:37. 1803. 
Over a dozen species. Tropical and subtropical America. Perennial. 
Dichromena colorata (L.) A. 8, Hitchcock, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 141. 1893. 
NARROW-LEAF DICHROMENA, 
Schoenus coloratus L. Sp. Pl. 1:43. 1758. 
Scirpus cephalotes Walt. Fl. Car. 71. 1788, 
Dichromena leucocephala Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 1:37. 1803. 
EM. Sk,1:89, Gray, Man, ed. 6,577. Chap. Fl. 530. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2: 469, 
BERMUDA, West INDIES, SOUTHERN MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New Jersey to Florida, and west to 
Texas, 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Coast plain. 1 Jainpopen grassy 
places, Jackson County, Scottsboro (/. 4. Smith), Cullman, ‘Tuscaloosa, and Mobile 
counties. July, August; frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Jamaica, Bahama.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Dichromena latifolia Baldw.; Ell. Sk. 1:90. 1817. BROAD-LFEAF DICHROMENA. 
Gray, Man. ed.6,577. Chap. 1.530. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 469. 
Louisianian area, Southern Virginia, North Carolina to Florida, and west to 
eastern Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain, Lower Pineregion. Open swamps. Washington County, 
Yellowpine. Mobile County. July to August; common. 
Type locality: ‘‘MeIntosh County, Ga., and in Florida.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
FIMBRISTYLIS Vahl, Enum, 2: 285. 1806. 
Fimbristylis spadicea (L.) Vahl, Enum. 2: 294. 1806. BROWN CLUB-RUSIL, 
Scirpus spadiceus L. Sp. P1.1:51. 1753. 
Chap. F1.521, in part. Griseb. F]. Brit. W. Ind. 372. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:470. 
West INDIES, MEXICO, SOUTH TO BRAZIL. 
Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida to ‘Texas. 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt, brackish and salt marshes. Mobile and Baldwin coun- 
ties. July to September. Perennial, 
In some localities forming a large part of the glumaceous vegetation of the hbrack- 
ish and salt marshes. 
Type locality: “Hab, in Jamaicae fluviis.” 
Herb. Geol, Sury. Herb. Mokr. 
Fimbristylis puberula (Michx.) Vahl, Enum. 2: 289, 1806. 
PUBERULENT CLuB Rusu. 
Scirpus puberulus Michx. Fl. Bor, Am. 1:31. 1803, 
S. ferrugineus Ell. Sk,1:85. 1816. 
Fimbristylis spadicea var. puberula Chap. FI. 522, 
Ell. le. Chap.lec, Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 572. 
FROM SOUTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA TO ARGENTINA. 
Louisianian area, Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain and Littoral region. Low flat pine barrens and salt 
marshes. Mobile County, Fowl River Station, flat pine woods in close damp soil. 
Baldwin County, salt marshes overtlowéd by the tide. April to July; frequent. 
Perennial. 
Widely differing in the habit of growth and (distribution, this plant can not be 
connected with the last. Growing under the most varying conditions of soil, in 
the salty marshes on the seashore as well as in the dry pine barrens of the coast 
region farther inland, it is found without the slightest deviation in its characters, 
Type locality:  Ilab. in Carolina et Georgia,” 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
