GRASSES. 381 



Mexico, Central America. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern, middle, and sonthwestern Tennessee 

 to Texas and Arizona, and east along the Gulf coast to Alabama. 



Alabama : Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Autauga County, Prattville. 

 Adventive with some other plants of the Southwest. Mobile County, bay shore at 

 Cedar Point. July. Eare. Annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Mexico." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. 272. 1855. 



Purple Eragrostis. 



Poa pectinacea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 69. 1803. 



P. /iirsMtoEll. Sk. 1:157. 1817. Not Michx. 1803. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 661. Chap. Fl. 561. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 542. Scribner, 

 Grass. Teun. 2 : 98, t. 3.1, f. 131. 



Allegheniau to Louisianian area. Coast of southern Massachusetts and in New 

 York, west to Minnesota and Nebraska, and south to Florida and Texas. 



Alabama: From the Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Common and most 

 abundant on sandy pine barrens. Mobile County. August to October. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in arvis Illinoensibus.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eragrostis refracta (Muhl.) Scribner, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 :49. 1894. 



Meadow Eragrostis. 



Foa refracta Mnhl. Gram. 146. 1817. 



Eragrostris campestris Trin. Bull. Sci. Acad. St. Petersb. 1 : 70. 1836. 



E. pectinacea var. refracta Chap. Fl. 564. 1860. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 162. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 661. Chap. Fl. 564. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 542. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina to 

 Florida, west to Texas. 



Alaba>la : Coast plain. Damp flat pine barrens. Mobile County. September; 

 common. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eragrostis lugens Nees iu Mart. Fl. Bras. 2 : 505. 1829. 



Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 542. Vasey, Illust. Am. Grass. 1, pt. 2 : t. 47. 



Mexico, (?) Brazil, Montevideo. 



Louisianian area. Arizona and Texas to Alabama and Florida. ? 



Alabama : Adventive with ballast. Mobile. July to September, 1893-94. Annual 

 or perennial. ? 



Type locality: "Hab. ad Monte-Video et iu continibus Paraguayan!, (Sellow.)" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) Link, Hort. Berol. 1 : 192. 1827. Fringed Eragrostis. 



Poa ciliaris L. Syst. ed. 10, 875. 1759. 



Megaatachiia ciliaris Beauv. Agrost. 74. 1812. 



Chap. Fl. 563. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 532. 



Tropical regions of the Old and New Worlds. Arabia, Africa, Galapa- 

 gos, West Indies to Brazil. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississipiu. 



Alaba:\ia: Coast plain. Sandy fields, waste places. Mobile County. Septem- 

 ber and October ; frequent. Not remote from dwellings. Probably naturalized from 

 the tropics. Annual. 



Type locality : Jamaica? 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eragrostis glomerata (Walt.) L. H. Dewey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 :543. 1894. 



Densely Spiked Eragrostis. 



Poa qlomerata Walt. Fl. Car. 80. 1788. 



P. coiiferta Ell. Sk. 1 : 158. 1817. 



Eragrostis conferta Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. (i, 1 : 409. 1831. 



Ell. Sk. Lc. Chap. Fl. 563. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 533. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 

 Herb. 2 : 543. 



West Indies, Mexico to Brazil. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florichi, west to Texas and Arkansas. 



