412 PLANT LIl-K OF AI-AI5.\.M\. 



Ai.AUAM.v: Coast ])laiii. Dry jiiiif liarrenw. M(»l»ili« County. .July ; not frcrjuoiit. 

 Tyi)tOt)ralit\ ol' Klliott's plant: " ( Olli-cttsd Ity J>r. lialdwin on tlio contiiH'S of 

 Cit'orj^ia and I'lorida." 



Htib. (u-ol. Snrv. llcil). Molir. 



Scleria pauciflora glabra ('Lap. l'l.r.:J2. im). Smooth Nit Iv'i sii. 



Sch ria iKtiicilloid vur. fi Torr. Ann. Lv<'. N. V. 3 : 'AIS. is:i(i. 



C'l.ap. K1..-.SL'. 



Lonisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, Alaliania, .md Mi.ssishippi. 



Ai..\nAMA: Littoral belt, dry sands near the ncaslion-. lialdwin County, I't-r- 

 dido Lay. .Line; rare. 



Tyi)t^ ioeality: "Sandy ]iinc barrens, Florida." 



lltrl). (u'ol. .Surv. Herb. Molir. 



Scleria caroliniana Willd.Sp. PI. 4:318. 1804. Cakomna Nut Kh.sii. 



.So/m«/n)/(>//rt Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.2:168. 1803. (Fide Willd.) Not S%v. 1788. 



Ell. 8k. 2:500. Chap. Fl. 532. 



Lonisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississipj)!. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region, (hassy pine barrens, springy places. Mobile 

 County, (irand Lay, Bayou Sara. .Inne, -July; not iutmiuent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in sylvis Caroliuae." 



Herb. Mohr.' 



Scleria gracilis Ell. Sk. 2 : 557. 1821-21. Si.e.vdku Nut Rush. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 532. 



Cuba. 



Lonisianiau area. Soutli Carolina, to Florida, along tlie (julf coast to Mississippi. 



Ai-amama: Littoral region. Drifting sands on the seashore. lialdwiu County, 

 Perdido Bay. June, July; rare. 



Ty])e locality: "Collected by Dr. Baldwin m-ar St. Marys, (in.'' 

 Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Molir. 



Scleria hirtella Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 19. 1788. Michaux'.s Nut Rush. 



Scleria internipta ISIichx. Fl. lior. Am. 2 : 168. 1803. Not L. C. Rich. 



S. michauxii Chap. Fl. 532. 1860. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 561. Chap. Fl. 1. c. ; ed. 3,560. (Jriseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. .579. 



■\Vkst Indies, Mexico to Buazil, Peru, Chile, Cknthal and Soith Afhica, 



Lonisianian area. Florida to Louisiana. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region. Damp gi'assy pine barrens. 3Iobile County, 

 Grand Bay. July; infreiiuent. 



Type locality (Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ): " Hab. in montosis nemorosis Janiaicae." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Plerb. Mohr. 



Scleria baldwixii Torr., found at Pascagonla and iu western Florida, is to be 

 looked for on our coast. 



CAREX L. Sp, P1.2:972. 1753.' 



Nearly 1,000 species described, of which more than half are recognized as valid, 

 prevailing chietiy in cooler temperate regions. North America north of Mexico, 

 about270. Eastemrnited States andadjacentpartsof Canada, 133. Southern States 

 (Carolinian and Lonisianian areas), 85. ^Ye8tern continental region, west of eastern 

 Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri to the Pacific slope and the adjacent parts of British 

 North America, about 100 sjiecies. Alabama 61 species, a number doubtless to be 

 increased on closer exploration by the addition of some of the species frequent in 

 the adjacent States, but which have not yet been observed within its limits. A few 

 not iu the herltarium of the Geological Survey have been admitted on the authority 

 of the late T. il. Peters, who gave to the investigatiou of this genus in northern 

 Alabama his special attention. 



The species have been arranged according to L. H. Bailey's Synopsis. 



Carex coUinsii Nutt. Gen. 2 : 205. 1818. Collins's Sedge. 



Carcx suhiilaia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 173. 1803. Not Gmel. or Schk. 



C. michaniii Dew. Am. Journ. Sci. 10 : 273. 1826. 



Gray. Man. ed. 6, 592. 



AUegheuian and Carolinian areas. New England (Rhode Island), sonthern New 

 York, Pennsylvania, and along the mountains to Georgia. 



'L. H. Bailey, jr., Preliminary Synopsisof North American Carices, Proc. Am. Acad., 

 vol. 22, pp. 59 to 157. 1886. L. 11. Bailey, jr.. Types of various species of the genus 

 Carex, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 1, pp. 1 to 86. 1890. 



