GEASSES. 377 



F. pohisfaclnja Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:60. 1803. 

 Leptocliloa faxcicnlnris Gray, Man. 588. 1848. 

 Gray, Man. ed. 6, 658. Cliap. Fl. 559. 

 West Ixdies. ^Mexico, Colombia. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of Ehode Island, New York to Florida 

 and Louisiana. 



Alabama: Littoral belt. Salt marshes. Mobile County, Dauphin Island. .June 

 to July; rare. Perennial. 

 Type locality : "Ex Amer. merid. Comm. D. Richard." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PHRAGMITES Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134. 1820. 



Three species, temperate and tropical regions, Europe, Asia, and America. 

 Phragmites phragmites (L.) Karst. Deutsche Fl. 379, 1880-1883. Reed. 



Arundo pliragmites L. Sp. PI. 1:81. 1753. 



Phragmites communis Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134. 1820. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 6.58. Chap. Fl. 567. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 5.37. 



Throughout the temperate zones of the Old World, and over the North American 

 continent to Central America. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area, thence to the Pacific coast. 



Alabama : Scattered over the State. Abundant in the marshes of the coast region, 

 Mobile County, river delta. August to October. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Europae lacubus, tiuviis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SIEGLINGIA Bernh. Syst. Verz. Pfl. Erl. 40. 1800. 



(Triodia R. Br. Prodr. Fl. N. Holl. 1 : 182. 1810.) 



(Tricuspis Beauv. Agrost. 77. 1812.) 



About 27 species, of temperate zones. North America 17, mostly of the Sonoran 

 continental plains. 



Sieglingia purpurea (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 789. 1891. Sand Grass. 



Aira purpurea Walt. Fl. Car. 78. 1788. 



Uralepis purpurea Nutt. Gen. 1 : 62. 1818. 



Tricuspis purpurea (iray, Man. .589. 1848. 



Triplasis jyurpurea Chap. Fl. 560. 1860. 



Ell. Sk. 1: 152. Grav, Man. ed. 6, 658. Chap. F1.560. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 539. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern New England, Ohio, Michigan, Illi- 

 nois, and New York ; south along the coast to Florida and Texas. 



Alabama: Littoral belt. Drifting sands on the seashore. Baldwin County, 

 eastern shore of Mobile Bay. July to August ; frequent; annual. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sieglingia americana (Beauv.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 789. 1891. 



Southern Sand Grass. 



Triplasis americana Beauv. Agrost. 81, 1. 16, f. 10. 1812. 



Uralepis cornuta Ell. Sk. 1 : 580. 1817. 



Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 



Alabama: Lower Pine belt and Littoral belt. Loose sands. Mobile County, 

 Springhill, on barren pine ridges; Dauphin Island. Drifting sands on the seashore. 

 Baldwin County, shore Bon Secour Bay. July to September ; not rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Ce savant Fa raport6e des Etats Unis d'Amerique." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sieglingia stricta (Nutt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 :789. 1891. 



Narrow-spiked Sieglingia. 



Windsoria stricta Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, 5 : 147. 1833-1837. 



Triodia stricta Vasey, Spec. Rep. U. S. Dept. Agr. 63 : 35. 1883. 



Coulter, Contr. Nat' Herb. 2 : 538. Britt. & Brown. 111. Fl. 1 : 185, /'. 43,2. Chap. Fl, 

 ed. 3, 610. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Mississippi, Louisiana to Texas, Arkansas and 

 Kansas. 



Alabama: Central Prairie belt. Wilcox County (S. />. Buckley). July; rare. 

 Perennial. 



