GRASSES. 373 



DANTHONIA DC. Fl. France, 3:32. 180.5. Oat Gras.s. 



One hundred species, temperate and warmer regions, more than halfin South Africa. 

 North America, 5 or 6 species. 



Danthonia spicata (L.) Beauv. ; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2 : 690. 1817. 



Common Wild Oat Grass. 



Arena spicata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 80. 1753. 



J. (jlumosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 72. 1803. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 654. Chap. Fl. 569. 



Allegheniau to Louisianian area. Newfoundland and Quebec, west to the Pacific ; 

 New England, west to Dakota, south to Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley to central prairies. Dry cojises, border of woods. 

 Madison County. Dallas County, Marion Junction. June, July; not infrequent. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Pensylvania." 



Herb. Geol. Sur-s-. Herb. Mohr. 



Danthonia compressa Austin ; Peck, Rep. Reg. N. Y. St. Univ. 22 : 54. 1869. 



Mountain Wild Oat Grass. 



Danthonia alleni Aust. Bull. Torr. Club, 3 : 21. 1872. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 654. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 665. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 85, t. 29, f. 114. 



Allegheniau and Carolinian areas. New England to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 

 south to North Carolina and Tennessee. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Dry rocky ridges. Madison County, Huntsville. 

 May, June; not frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Woods. Danube, Herkimer County, [N. Y.], July, 1868. C. F. 

 Austin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Danthonia glabra Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 43. 1897. Smooth Wild Oat Grass. 



Carolinian area. New Jersey to upper Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Rockj^ ledges. Dekalb County, summit of Lookout 

 Mountain, 2,000 feet altitnde. June, 1893. Rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Type specimens collected by Dr. John K. Small, on Little Stone 

 Mountain, Dekalb County, Georgia, on July 5, 1895." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Danthonia sericea Nutt. Gen. 1 : 71. 1818. Silky Wild Oat Grass. 



Avena spicata VA\.'S]^.1l:H\. 1817. Not L. 



Ell. I.e. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 6.54. Chap. Fl. 569. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 84, <. f<?,/. i7,'. 



Carolinian to Louisianian area. Florida, along the coast to southern Massa'hu- 

 setts, west to Mississippi and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry pine barrens. Lee County, 

 Auburn {Baker 4' Earle). Washington County, Yellowpine. Escambia, Clarke, 

 Baldwin, and Mobile counties. May; frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Grows iutheupper districts of Georgia and South Carolina, in high 

 land. Columbia County, Ga." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



GAUDINIA Beauv. Agrost. 95. 1812, 



Gaudinia fragilis (L.) Beauv. Agrost. 95. 1812. 



Arena fragili'^ L. Sp. PL 1 : 80. 1753. 



A fugitive from southern Europe. Mobile County, on ballast. August. Observed 

 once only, 1889. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Lusitania, Hispania. Loefl." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CAPRIOLA Adaus. Fam. PI. 2 : 31. 1763. 

 (Cynodon Rich. ; Pers. Syn. 1 : 85. 1805.) 



Capriola dactylon (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 2 : 764. 1891. Bermuda Grass. 



Panicum dactylon L. Sp. PL 1 : 58. 1753. 



Ci/nodon dactylon Pers. Syn. 1 : 85. 1805. 



EIL Sk. 1 : 133. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 654. Chap. Fl. 5.57. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 86, 

 t. 39, f. 115. 



Southern Europe. 



Naturalized in nearly all warmer regions. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Extensively spread in the valleys from Penn- 

 sylvania to Florida, west to Texas, sparingly on the Pacific coast. 



