332 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 591. Chap. Fl. 449. 

 Louisianiau area. South Carolina. Florida. 



ALABAMA: Upper division Coast Pine belt. Fresh water ponds. Washington 

 County, Suggsville (Dr. Denny). Local. 

 Type locality : " Hah. in Carolina." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sagittaria filiformis J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6 : 46, 1. 15. 1894. 



FiLIKOltM ARROWHEAD. 



"Submerged aquatic, with linear filiform phyllodia 6 inches to 2 feet long, iVti 

 inch wide; scape slender, filiform, 2 to 4 feet long, branching from all but tlie upper- 

 most verticils; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, -J- to ^ inch long, at length evanescent; 

 pedicels and branches of the scape filiform 1 to 3^ inches long; 1 or 2 fiowers of the 

 lowest verticil pistillate, the rest all staminate; verticils 6 to 10, remote; flowers 

 fto-^' inch wide; sepals ovate, obtuse, scarious-margined ; petals white, stamens 

 7; filaments over twice as long as the anthers; mature achenia not yet collected; 

 ovary obovate, equaled by the slender oblique style. Floating in still water. Dog 

 River, Mobile County, Ala.. Mohr, August 14, 1893." 



Louisiauian area. Eastern and western Florida. 



Type locality : " Dog River, Mobile County, Ala." 



Type specimen in Herb. Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb. Mohr. 



Sagittaria lancifolia falcata (Pursh) J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6:47, t. 16. 

 1894. LANCE-LEAVED SAGITTARIA. 



Sagittaria falcata Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 397. 3816. 



8. lancifolia media Micheli in DC. Monogr. Phan. 3:73. 1881. 



Ell. Sk. 2 :591. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 555. Chap. Fl. 449. 



MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. Delaware and Mary land, south along the coast 

 to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Coast region. Open marshes. Mobile County, river swamp; Bayou 

 Labatre, brackish swamps near the seashore. Flowers July, August; 2 to 3 feet 

 high. Common. 



Type locality : " In ponds: Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sagittaria graminea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 190. 1803. GRASS-LEAVED SAGITTARIA. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 592. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 555. Chap. Fl. 449. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 455. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Ontario, 

 New England (Mount Desert Island) ; west to Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas; 

 south to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA : Coast region. Shallow ponds, ditches. Mobile County, river marshes. 

 June; frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Canada." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sagittaria cycloptera ( J. G. Smith) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 20. 1897. 



PlNE-BARREX SAGITTARIA. 



Sagittaria graminea cycloptera J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6 : 52, t. 20. 1894. 



"Slender, erect, 8 inches to 2 feet and over high from a horizontal or oblique rhi- 

 zome; leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering gradually at both ends or reduced to slender 

 attenuate phyllodia; scape simple or branching from the lowest verticil ; iuternodes 

 longer than fertile pedicels; bracts and stamens as in the species; achenium T L b - to ^ 

 inch long with an abrupt dorsal crest, an arched wing, and a medial vertical resin 

 passage on either side, or when maturing under water only costate or wrinkled." 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Sandy borders of pine-barren ponds. 

 Washington County, Yellowpine, Deerpark. Mobile County, river marshes, Spring- 

 hill. Flowers June to August. Frequent in the Lower Pine region. 



Type locality: "From South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Sagittaria chapman! ( J. G. Smith) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 20. 1897. 



CHAPMAN'S SAGITTARIA. 



Sagittaria f/raminea chapmani J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6 : 52, t. 21. 1894. 



"Twelve to 20 inches high; leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute, tapering at base 

 into the petiole, to 1 inches wide, 5 to 8 inches long ; scape weak, branched or 



