802 PLANT LIKE (>K ALAHAMA. 



Cyperiis multiradiatiis (Torr.l Mohr. I.K Contk's Cyperus. 



('jipeniK (hiilaliix viiilliradi<iliin Torr. Aim. I,yi'. N. ^ . 3 : 272. 18H(i. 



C. Iicoiilii Torr. 1. c. •_'7:{. 



("liaj). l'l.r>(t!t. 



I.onisiauian iirra. I'.asti-ni and wi-slmi I'lorida, ;m<I on the Heaslioro west to Mis- 

 sissijipi. 



Al.vhama: Littoral rojjion. Dril'tinp; Hands on the soasliore. Danpbin Isl.ind. 

 Eastern shore Mol)ile l?a}', I'oiiit (Jlear, .lo.scphino. .luiic, .July: frequent. Tlie Ion;; 

 creciiin^' rhizomas deejdy buried in tiie sand. I'ereniiial. 



'J'ypti h)eality: ''East ITorida, Le Conte.'; New Orleans. Dr. Ini/alln!" 



Hcrh. Mohr." 



Cyperus articulatus L. Sp. I'l. 1 : 11. 1753. Adrue. Guinea Kt'sii. 



Ell. .Sk. 1:03. Chap. IT. r.08. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:463. (Jriseb. Fl. Brit. 

 W. Ind. 5(U. 



All thopical couNTiaics. E(;ypt, Cape ok Good Hope. 



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



Alabama: Coast i)laiu. Marj^iu of fresh and slij^htly brackish marshes. Mobile 

 County, river swani})s. Haldwin County, Fish River IJay. August, 4 to 5 feet high ; 

 fre(|ueiit. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Jamaicae rivulis." 



Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus articulatus congloineratus Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 13 : 210. 1886. 



T^ouisianian area. Alabama to western Texas. 



Alabama : Littoral belt, salt marshes. Baldwin County, Bon Secour. Ran;. Per- 

 ennial. Easily distinguished by the pah; spikelets in close capitate clusters. 



Type loealitv : " Vallej" of the lower Rio Grande (Bu<;kley ),'' 



Herb, Mohr."^ 



Cyperus sphacelatus Rottb. Desc. Nov. PL 26; Prog. 21. 1773. 



Vahl, Enum, 2 : 341. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 565. 



West Indies, Bua/il. 



Adventive on ballast in California. 



Alabama: Ballast heaps. Mobile, September, 1891. 



Type locality not ascertained; Vahl's locality: "Habitat in Surinamo, Cajenna, 

 Puertoiico; in Guinea, Thonnivg.'' 



Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus rotuudus L. Sp. PL 1 : 45. 1753. Nut Grass. 



Cyperus hydra :Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 27. 1803. 



Ell. Sk.l: 68. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 571. Chap. FL 506. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 463. 

 Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 463. 



West Indies to Guiana; all tropical and subtropical countries of the 

 Old Woi'.ld; Australia. 



Louisianian area. From tht; coast of southern Virginia to Florida, west to Texas. 



Alabama: Central Pine belt to the Coast plain. The most abundant and perni- 

 cious of weeds in the, cultivated lands of the low country. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Hab. in India." 



Herb. Geol. .Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cyperus esculentus L. Sp. PL 1:45. 1753. Wild Chufa. 



Cyperus phtpnatodcs Muhl. Gram. 23. 1817. 



C. repens Ell. Sk. 1 : 69. 1817. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 571. Chap. Fl. 508. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 463. Griseb. FL 

 Brit. W. Ind. 565. 



An almost cosmopolitan weed in temperate and w.armer regions. 



South Europe to South Africa, Australia, We.st Indies, Atlantic South 

 America. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. From New Brunswick, Ontario, and New Eng- 

 land, west to Nebraska, and throughout Eastern North America to Florida and the 

 Gulf States; also in California. 



Alabama: Over the State. In sandy soil. Most frequent from the Central Prairie 

 region to the coast. A somewhat troublesome weed of easy extermination. Mont- 

 gomery, Hale, Escambia, Mobile, and Baldwin co'inties. July, September; frequent. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. Monspelii. in(|ue Italia, (Jrieute." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



