404 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Quebec; New England to Minnesota, Kansas, 
Illinois, and south from New York to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Deep marshes. Mobile County, banks East Fowl River. 
July; rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: “(Common in the western parts of the State of New York, Dr. 
Gray!; on the Missouri above St. Louis, Pr. Baldwin!” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl, Enum, 2:271. 1806. Leary BULRUSH, 
Scirpus exaltatus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1:56. 1814. 
Ell. Sk. 1:87, 88. Gray, Man. ed. 6,582. Chap. FI. 520. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas, Southern New England to North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Grassy swamps. Winston County, Colliers Creek, 
1,600 feet. August; rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in America boreali?” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Scirpus cyperinus eriophorum (Michx.) Britton, Trans, N.Y. ead. 11:82. 1892, 
WooL GRASS. 
Scirpus eriophorum Michx. Fl. Bor, Am, 1:33. 1803. 
Eriophorum cyperinum var, larwm Gray, Man. ed. 6, 582. 1860. 
EM. Sk.1:91. Gray, Man. loc. Chap. FL. 521. 
Alleghenian to Lonisianian area. New Brunswick and Ontario south to Florida 
and along the Gulf to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine region to Coast plain. Grassy swamps. ‘Tuscaloosa, 
Mobile, and Baldwin counties. July to August; frequent, Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab, a Virginia ad Georgiam,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. 
Scirpus lineatus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 1:52. 1505, REDDISIL BULRUSH. 
Trichophorum lineatum Pers. Syn. 1:69. 1805. 
Eriophorum lineatum Benth. & Hook, Gen. PL 3: 1052. 1885. 
Ell. Sk. 1:87. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 582. Chap. I'l. 521. Coulter, Contr, Nat. Herb. 
2: 472. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario, New England west to Michigan, Min- 
nesota, Kansas, and Missouri, south to Florida and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: ‘Tennessee Valley to the coast. Most frequent in the Coast Pine belt. 
Swampy banks of pine-barren streams. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile 
and Baldwin counties. July, August; not infrequent, Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab, in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 
FUIRENA Rottb, Deser. et Ieon. 70, t. 79, f. 8. 17738." UMBRELLA GRass, 
About 25 species. Perennial. Tropical and warmer temperate America, Atlantic 
North America, 6. 
Fuirena scirpoidea Michx. I'l. Bor. Ai. 1:38, #7, 1803. 
RUSI-LIKE UMBRELLA GRAss, 
El. Sk.1:54. Chap. Fl. 514. 
Louisianian area, Coast of Georgia and Florida to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Springy banks and brackish sandy swamps. — Bald- 
win County, eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Point Clear. Mobile County, West Fowl] 
River, Dauphin Island. July to August; frequent. 
Type locality: “ILab, in paludosis aestate exsiccabilibus Ploridae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Fuirena squarrosa breviseta Coville, Bull. Torr. Club, 17:6, 1890, 
SQUARROSE FuUIRENA, 
Fuirena squarrosa Chap. FL 514, 1860. 
F, squarrosa « Torr, Ann, Lyc. N.Y. 32291. 1836, 
Coulter, Contr. Nat, Herb. 2:475. 
Louisianian area. From North Carolina to Florida; west to Louisiana and eastern 
Texas. ; 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Borders of grassy swamps and ditches. Mobile County, 
July; infrequent. 
' Frederick V. Coville, Revision of the United States species of Fuirena, Bull. 
Torr. Club, vol. 17, pp. 1 to 8. 1890. 
