428 I'LANT Ml-K <M'" AI-AMAMA. 



Ai.AHAMA : Tliroii^lioul till' ( cntral mid ('oast Pino belts. Sprinjiy ])lacoH in woods. 

 Li'i' County, Anhiun (Ikiler ,SEarh). Clarke, Monroe, and Wa.sliingtou counties. 

 .Inly ; not rare. 



Typt' locality : "South Caroliu.a. 



Iiorl>. (leol. Surv. llorh. Mohr. 



Xyris iridifolia Chap. I"l. 501. 1860, S\\<)KI>-i.kai Yki.i.ow -kykd Gilass. 



Cliap. Fl.l.o. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 112. 



l.ouiHianian area. I'lorida, west to Houtheastern Texas (lirazos River). 



Ai-amama: Mountain rej^ion, Metainorpliic hills, Central Prairie rejjion to Coast 

 jilain. Low wet jiine bairens. border swainjis. Leo County, Anlnirn ( lidlitr iS' ICarle). 

 Wilcox County (>'. />'. Ituvklei)). Wa8bin;;tou County, Yell<)W])ino. Mobile County. 

 .Inly. 



Ty]»e locality: "Shallow iiou<l8, Apalachicola, Fla." 



Herb. Getd. Snry. Herb. Mohr. 



Xyris fimbriata Kll.Sk.l:52. 1!^16. Fijin(;ici) Yki.i.ow-eykd (Jkass. 



Gray, Man. ed. (>, 573. Chap. FL 501. 



Carolinian and Louisiani.in area. Southern New .lersey, \ir;i;iiiia. South Carolina 

 to Florida, west to Missis.sippi and Louisiana. 



Ai.AitA.MA: Lower Pine rof^iou. Coast j)lain. Low weti)ine barrens. Mobile County, 

 Kelly's jtond, Spriiif^hill. Sejitember; not frequent. 



Type locality: "Sent from Georjjia by Dr. Baldwin." 



HVrb. Mohr." 



Xyris torta Smith in Kees, Cycl. no. 11. 1819. 



Xyris conocephala Sauy. Fl. Cub. 159. 1868. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 537. Chap. Fl. .537. 



CruA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas, Arkansas. 



Alauam.a: Mountain region, Mctamorphic hills. Central Pine belt to the coast. 

 Lee County, Auburn {Baker cj- Earle). Washington and Mobile counties. June; 

 common. 



Type locality : "Gathered in North America by Kalm." 



Herb. ( Jeol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Xyris torta pallescens var. nov. Pale T\viSTEn Xyris. 



Slender, 8 to 10 inches high, glaucous, leaves narrow, linear, /^ inch wide, very 

 tortuous, greenish-brown at the base; llowering heads more conical and acute than 

 in the type, greenish, Howers white. 



Louisianian area. Western Florida. 



Aiaiiama: Littoral belt. Drifting sands, shore of Perdido Bay. Mobile County, 

 Dauphin Island. June; infreciuent. 

 Type locality: First observed on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. July 4, 1874. 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Xyris baldwiniana Schult. Mant. 1:351. 1822. Baldwin's Yellow-eyki> Guass. 



Xyris June a Bald. ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 53. 1816. Not R. Br. 



A', ienuifolia Chap. Fl. 502, 1860. 



X. setacea Chap. Su]>pl. 6.58. 1880. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 502. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 442. 



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



Alabama: Lower Pine region. Borders of pine-barren ponds. Washington 

 County, Fairfort. Mobile County, Chastangs Bluff. September; not rare. 



Type locality : "Grows in danap situations in the pine barrens near St. Mary's 

 LGa.]." 



Herb. Geol Surv. Herb. .Mohr. 



ERIOCAULACEAE. Pipewort Family. 



ERIOCAULON L. Sp. PI. 1:87. 17.53. 



About 110 species, perennials, of subtropical and tropical regions of Asia, Africa, 

 and Australia, South and North America. North America 3, two of them south- 

 eastern, one extending north to New England and to southwestern Europe. 



Eriocaulou decangulare L. Sp. PI. 1 : 87. 17.53. Ten-angled Pipewort. 



Ell. Sk. 2:565. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 567. Chap. Fl. 503. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:459. 



