3r)S PLANT LIFK OF ALABAMA. 



Ai.akama: ('0:1st phiiii. Swamps. Mdhilr ('(»iiiity. rivrr iiiarslu-s. .Inly, l-'oiir 

 to ,"» left Iii;.;h ; annual. 



ry]>o locality : " Near the salt water : Canada and N<\v ^ ork." 

 Ihrli. (Jeol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paiiicum colonum 1^. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 870. 17r>9. 



/'(/»/i<//«i inW/.rM.ll.Sk. 1: 11."). IMC). Not I'Mrsli. 1814. 



Chap. Fl. .")77. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : ;{7. Wats. Hot. Calif. 2 : 'JtJO. Conlter. 

 Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 :5ti2. .Siribner, (Jrass. Tenn. 2 : 10. /. .V, /. ..v/. 



SlHTROPItAI. AND THOI'ICAl, UlUiKl.NS OF TllK GI.OISi;. 



l.onisianian ,irea. North Carolina to Florida; west to Texas, Arl<aiisas, .\ri/ona, 

 and southern California. 



Ai.aha.ma: Coast plain. Damp j^rassy bankn; l'rei|iU'nt. Mobile and Baldwin 

 counties. July to September; annual. 



Type loeality East Indian. 



Herb. (m'oI. Snrv. TIerb. Mohr. 



Paiiicum gibbum Ell. Sk. 1 : IK). 1817. FrKi-i.K I'amci'.m. 



I'aiiiciim elliottiainiin Schnlt. in Dietr. Syn. PI. 1 : 201. 1839. 



Hjimenachui' striata Griseb. 1"1. Hrit. W. Ind. ')nA. 1S64. 



Chap. Fl. 573. Scribner, Grass. lY-nn. 2 : 40, t. S,f. ■'!!. Vasey, Contr. Nat. I brb. 3 : 37. 



Wkst Indies to Giia.na 



Carolinian to Louisiauian area. Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. 



Alabama: Lower i'ine region, Coast plain. Damp grassy banks, borders of 

 brooks. Mobile County. .July to August; not rare; i)erenuial. 



Tyi)e loeality: " In damp and wet soils [South Carolina and Cieorgia]." 



Herb. (ieol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paiiicum molle Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 22. 1788. 1'aka CJkass. 



Introduced from the West Indies and cultivated. 



Alabama : Rarely cultivated about Mobile and said to have escaped into low 

 places and ditches; perennial. 



Economic uses: Valuable; an excellent coarse pasture grass. 



Herb. GeoL Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



OPLISMENUS Beauv. Agrost. 53. 1812. 

 (Oin-HoiMxioN K. Br. FI, Nov, HoU. 194. 1810.) 



Four species, tropical and subtroincai regions, mostly American. North Ameri- 

 ca, 1. 



Oplismenus setarius (Lam.) Roem. «& Schnlt. Syst. Veg. 2:484. 1817. 



I'anirnm Hetarium Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 170. 1791. 



/'. hirtcUum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i:47. 1803. Not L. 



OrihujioyoH netariuii Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1:300. 1824. 



Ell. Sk. 1:115. Chap. Fl. 577. Grisel). Fl. Brit. W. In<l. 545. Vasey, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 3 : 37. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 509. 



West Lndiks, Mk.xicoto Bkazil. 



Lonisianian area. ( oast of South Carolina to Florida and Texas. 



Alabama: Metaniorphic hills. Lee County, Auburn {Baker 4- Earl e,od6). Central 

 Pine belt. Coast plain. Damp shady copses and woods. Mobile and Baldwin coun- 

 ties. Tuscaloosa County {E. A. Smith). July to September; not infrequent; 

 pen^nnial. 



Type locality: "Ex Amer. merid. Commun. a D. Richard." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



CHAETOCHLOA Scribner, Bull. F. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 4 :39. 1897 ' 

 (CnA^L\l:KAP^^s Kuntze, Kev. Gen. I'l. 2:767. 1891. Not R.Br.) 

 (IxoPHORUS Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22 : 422. 1895. Not Schlecht. ) 

 (Setaria Beauv. Agrost. 113. 1812. Not Achar. 1798. ) 



About 28 species, weedy annuals, of warmer temperate and tropical regions. 



Chaetochloa glauca (L.) Scribner, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 4 : 39. 1897. 



Pigeon Grass. 

 Fanieum glaucum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 56. 1753. 



' The North American species of Chaetochloa. By F. Lamson-Scribner «fe Elmer D. 

 Merrill. Bull. 21, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 1900. 



