410 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Type locality: ‘In wet savannas. St. Marys, Fla.. Dr. Baldwin; Wilmington, N.C., 
Mr, Curtis.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Rynchospora caduca Ell. Sk.1:62. 1816. RIVERSIDE BEAKED Rusil. 
Ell.l.c. Chap. F1.526. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herh, 2: 475. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to ‘Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Wet margins of marshes 2nd streams. Mobile County, 
river marshes. July, August; abundant. 
Economic uses: Cut by the negroes for green fodder, 
Type locality: ‘Around Charleston, common.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr, 
Rynchospora schoenoides (Ell.) Britton, Trans. N.Y. Acad. 11: 92. 1892. 
ELLIOTT’s BEAKED Rusu. 
Scirpus schoenoides Fl. Sk.1:89. 1816. 
Khynchospora multifiora Gray, Ann. Lye. N. ¥.3:200. 1835-36, 
L. elliottii Dietr. Syn. PL.1:189. 1839, 
Ell. le, Chap. FL525, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2:475. 
Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coosa Valley to the Coast plain. Ditches, border of ponds. Etowah 
County, Ballplay, low pine woods. Mobile and Baldwin counties. July, 
ype locality: “Found near Savannah by Dr, Baldwin.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb, Mohr. 
Rynchospora inexpansa (Michx.) Vahl, Enum. 2: 232. 1806. 
NARROW-SPIKED Breakep Rusu, 
Schoenus inexpansus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1:35. 1803. 
Ell. Sk.1:61. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 584, Chap. Fl. 525. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 
2:476. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia to-Florida, west to western 
Louisiana and Texas? 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Low miry places. Cullman, Mont- 
gomery, Washington, and Mobile counties; common, 
Type locality: ‘ Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. 
Rynchospora miliacea (Lam.) Gray, Ann. Lye. N.Y.3: 198. 1885. 
PANIC-LIKE BEAKED RUSH. 
Schoenus miliaceus Lam. Tabl. Eneyel,1:137. 1791. 
S. sparsus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:35. 1803, 
El. Sk.1:62. Chap. F1. 526. 
CUBA. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie belt to Coast plain. Springy places in shady woods, 
Montgomery County, Pentulalla Creek, Autauga County (4. 4d. Smith). “Baldwin 
County, Point Clear, July to August; infrequent, 
Type locality: “KE Carolina merid. VD. Fraser.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. . 
Rynchospora stenophylla Chap. F1.525. 1860, NARROW-LEAF Brakrep Rusu, 
Kynchospora tenuifolia Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 244. 1866. 
Chap. FL, 525, 
Cuba, 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, 
ALABAMA: Coast Pine belt. Borders pine-barren ponds. Mobile County, Grand 
Bay. July, 1889; very rare. 
Type locality: “ Low grassy pine barrens, Apalachicola [Fla.].” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CLADIUM P. Br. Civ. & N. Hist. Jam. 1. 1756.) TwicG Rusu. 
Three species, of temperate and warmer zones, Europe, America. Coarse perennial 
marsh plants. 
Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr. Ann. Lye. N.Y.3:372. 1836. Twic Rusu. 
Schoenus mariscoides Muhl. Grain. 4. 1817. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 5&6. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick, Ontario, New England, west 
to Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota, south to Delaware and Florida, 
