GRASSES. 383 



Caroliniau and Loiiisianian areas. Southern Pennsylvania, southern Illinois, and 

 Missouri, south to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Central Prairie belt to Tennessee Valley. Rich wooded banks, shaded 

 borders of streams. Morgan County. Blount County, banks of Mulberry River. 

 Lee County, Auburn. Tuscaloosa County ( E. A, Smith). Tallapoosa and Montgomery 

 counties. Dallas County. Wilcox County, Allenton. .June, July; frequent. 



Type locality: "Halj. in occidentalibus montium Alleghanis." 



Herb. (ieol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Uniola laxa (L.) B. S. P. Prel. Cat. X. Y. 69. 1888. Slender Spike-grass. 



HolcMs laj-iis L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1048. 1753. 



Ciiiula gracilis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 71. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : lfi8. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 663. Chap. Fl. 566. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 545. SfTibner, Grass. Tenu. 2 : 101, t. 35, f. 13S. 



Caroliniau and Louisianian areas. Southern New York, Pennsylvania, and New 

 Jersey, south and west to Florida, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. 



Alabama: Tenuessee Valley to the Coast plain. Sandy shaded swamps; common 

 all over the Central and Coast Pine belts. July to September. 



Type locality : " Hah. in Virginia, Canada." 



Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 



Uniola longifolia Scribner, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 229. 1894. 



LoNG-LEAi" Spike-grass. 

 Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 617. 

 Louisianian area. IMississippi. 



Alabama : Mountain region an<l Coast plain. Low shady places. Lee County, 

 Auburn {Baker 4- Earle, 653). Mobile County (T. H. Kearney), July, 1895. Not 

 rare. 



Type locality : ''Little Stone Mountain, Dekalb County, Georgia, July (John K. 

 Small)," and other localitie.s in Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee. 



Herb Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Uuiola nitida Baldwin ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 167. 1817. Smooth Spike-gras.s. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region and Coast plain. Sandy "wet borders of brooks. 

 Mobile County, West Fowl River; Bayou Sara, shaded swampy banks of creek. 

 Not fre(iuent. 



Type locality: "Grows at Crooked River bridge, Camden County, Ga. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



DISTICHLIS Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 : 104. 1819. 



Two or 3 species, perennials. North America. Saline swamps of the seacoast and 

 alkaline plains in the interior. 



Distichlis spicata ( L.) Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2 : 415. 1887. 



Marsh Spike (Jrass. 



Uniola spicata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 71. 17.53, 



Distichlis maritima Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 : 104. 1819. 



Brizopyruiib spicatum Hook. &. Arn. Bot, Beech. 403. 1840. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 166. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 663. Chap. Fl. 562. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:546. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2:306. 



Australia. 



Caroliniau and Louisianian areas. Coast of New York to Florida, west to Texas. 

 On the Pacific slope, Vancouver Island to California, 



Alabama: Littoral belt. Salt mar.shes of the seashore; abundant. 



Tyi)e locality : " Hab. in Americae boreali^ maritimis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BRIZA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 70. 1753. 



Twelve species, of temperate regions of Europe and Asia. 

 Briza media L. Sp. PI. 1 : 70. 1753. Quaking Grass. 



Introduced and escaped from cultivation in the Atlantic States from Ontario 

 southward. 



Alabama : In several localities in northern and southern ])art8. Cullman and 

 Mobile counties. Annual. 



Type locality : "Hab, in Eurojiae jjratis siccioribus." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



