GRASSES. 389 



Alleghenian to I.ouisianian area. New England. Range of tlie type. Reported 

 from Nebriiska. 



Alabama : Coast ]dain. Rocky and dry shaded Uauks. Mobile County, Imiud only 

 on borders of lianmiock lauds, western bay sbore. June. Perennial. 



Type locality: " llab. ad ripas et in siccis Penusylvaniae, floret Julio." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mobr, 



Elymus canadensis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 83. 1753. 



Canadian Wild Rye or Lyme Gra.ss. 



Gray, Man. ed. G, 673. Coulter, Coutr. Kat. Herb, 2 : 5'>0. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Canada to Georgia, west to Texas au<l Arkansas. 



Alabam.\: Central prairie. Montgomery, Pentulalla Creek. Dry banks. July. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality : " Ilab. in Canada. KaluL '' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HYSTRIX Moench, Meth. 294. 1794. 

 (ASPRELLA Willd. Enum. 132. 1M09.) 

 (Gymnostichum Schreb. Beschr. Graes. 2 : 127. 1810.) 



Four species, temperate zones. Siberia, New Zealand. North America, 2 species. 

 Hystrix hystrix (L.) Millspaugh, Fl. W. Va. 474. 1892. Bottle Brush Gra.ss. 



Elymus Jnjstri.r L. S}). PI. ed. 2, 1 : 124. 1762. 



Giimiiosticlnim hystrix Schreb. Beschr. Graes. 2 : 127, t. 47. 1810. 



Ell. Sk. 1:181. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 674. Chap. Fl. 567. Coulter, Con tr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 551. Scribner, Grass Teun. 2 : 127, t. 47, f. 18S. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New Brunswick, Ontario; New England to 

 Nebraska, south to Florida and Texas. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Cullman County. Blouut County, Warnock Moun- 

 tain. .June; not frequent. Pereuuial. 



Tyi>e locality not given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ARUNDINARIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 73. 1803. 



About 24 species, jierenuials. Temperate America, Asia. 

 Arundinaria gigantea (Walt.) Chap. Fl. 561. 1860. Cane. 



Arinido yigantea AValt. Fl. Car. 81. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1:96, in part. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 674. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:551. 

 Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 129, t. 47, f. 1S7. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. From southern Tennessee and lower North 

 Carolina to Florida, central Texas, and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Alluvial banks of all the larger streams. Fruit received from Lander- 

 dale County in 1893, and from Russell County in 1895. April, May. Seed crop in 

 Russell County produced for the first time within the memory of the present gener- 

 ation, and in greatest abundance. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Arundinaria tecta (Walt.) Muhl. Gram. 191. 1817. Switch Cane Rked. 



Aruiulo tecta Walt. Fl. Car. 81. 1788. 



Arundinaria macrosperma var. sufruticona Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. 26:15. 1868. 



Ell. Sk. 1:97, in ])art. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 674. Chap. Fl. 561. Coulter, Coutr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 551. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 129, t. 47, f. 1S7. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Mi<ldle and lower country of the South Atlan- 

 tic States from southern A'irginia to Florida; Kentucky, Ohio, southern Illinois, 

 southwestern Missouri, and Arkansas to the Gnlf States west to Texas. 



This is the cane of the canebrakes in the alluvial forests subject t)nly to occa- 

 sional overflow, and of the damp black lauds of tlus Prairie region. 



Alabama: Over the State outside of the monntainsand table-lands; most frequent 

 from the Central Pine region to the coast, along the water courses and in low, damp 

 woods. Flowers April and May; flowering stalks mostly from naked radical 

 shoots, scarcely over 12 or 18 inches high. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



