428 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the Central and Coast Pine belts. Springy places in woods, 
Lee County, Auburn (Baker §: Earle). Clarke, Monroe, and Washington counties. 
July; not rare. 
Type locality: “South Carolina, 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
Xyris iridifolia Chap. I'l. 501. 1860. SWORD-LEAF YELLOW-EYED Grass, 
Chap. Fl. 1l.¢. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 442. 
Louisianian area, Florida, west to southeastern Texas (Brazos River), 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills, Central Prairie region to Coast 
plain. Low wet pine barrens, borderswamps, Lee County, Auburn ( Baker §: Earle), 
Wilcox County (8. B. Buckley), Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County. 
July. 
Type locality: “Shallow ponds, Apalachicola, Fla.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Xyris fimbriata Ell.Sk.1:52, 1816. FRINGED YELLOW-EYED GRASS. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,573, Chap. F1. 501, 
Carolinian and Louisianian area. Southern New Jersey, Virginia, South Carolina 
to Florida, west to Mississippi and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region, Coast plain. Low wet pine barrens. Mobile County, 
Kelly’s pond, Springhill. September; not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Sent from Georgia by Dr. Baldwin.” 
Herb. Mohr. 
Xyris torta Smith in Rees, Cyel. no. 11. 1819, 
Nyris conocephala Sauv. Fl. Cub, 159, 1868, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,537, Chap. FL. 537. 
CUBA, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas, Arkansas, 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills. Central Pine belt to the coast. 
Lee County, Auburn (Baker 4° Larle), Washington and Mobile counties. June; 
common, 
Type locality: ‘Gathered in North America by Kalm.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
Xyris torta pallescens var. nov. PALE TWISTED Xynis. 
Slender, 8 to 10 inches high, glaucous, leaves narrow, linear, ,', inch wide, very 
tortuous, greenish-brown at the base; flowering heads more conical and acute than 
in the type, greenish, flowers white. 
Louisianian area. Western Florida. 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Drifting sands, shore of Perdido Bay. Mobile County, 
Dauphin Island, June; infrequent, 
Type locality: First observed on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. July 4, 1874. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Xyris baldwiniana Schult. Mant.1:351. 1822. BaLDWIN’s YELLOW-EYED GRASS, 
Nyris juncea Bald,; Ell. Sk.1:53. 1816. Not R. Br. 
NX, tenuifolia Chap. FI, 502. 1860. 
X. setacea Chap. Suppl. 658, 1880, 
KIL Sk. le. Chap, F1. 502. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2-442, 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, and west to Texas, 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Borders of pine-barren ponds. Washington 
County, Fairfort. Mobile County, Chastangs Bluff. September; not rare. 
Type locality: “(Grows in damp situations in the pine barrens near St. Mary’s 
[Ga.].” 
Herb. Geol Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ERIOCAULACEAE. Pipewort Family. 
ERIOCAULON L. Sp. Pl. 1:87. 1753. 
About 110 species, perennials, of subtropical and tropical regions of Asia, Africa, 
and Australia, South and North America. North America 3, two of them south- 
eastern, one extending north to New England and to southwestern urope. 
Eriocaulon decangulare L.. Sp. Pl.1:87. 1753. TEN-ANGLED PrIpEWworr, 
Ell. Sk. 2:565, Gray, Man. ed. 6, 567, Chap. Fl. 503, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2: 459. 
