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Paspalum longipeduiiculatum Le Conte, Journ. Phys. 91 : 284. 1820. 



SLENDER-STEM PASPALUM. 



Paspalum debile Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 44. 1803, 



P. arenarium Schrad. ; Schult. Mant. 2 : 172. 1824( ?) 



Ell. Sk. 1:105. Scribner, Grass. Term. 2:35, t. 6, f. 23. Britt. & Brown, 111. 

 Fl. 1:108. 



Carolinian area. Kentucky and Tennessee to northern Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Sandy exposed grounds, pastures. Dekalb County, 

 Mentoue, 1,800 feet altitude. September 6, 1898. Not frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina boreali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum ciliatifolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 44. 1803. FRINGE-LEAF PASPALUM. 



Paspalum setaceum var. ciliatifolium Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 17. 1892. 



Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 499. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 34, t. 6, f. 22. Chap. 

 Fl. ed. 3, 578. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO, BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey, south to Florida, thence to Texas 

 and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Coast plain. Grassy banks in close loamy sand. 

 Lee County, Auburn (Baker <$- Earle, 644). Mobile County, along fence rows, road- 

 sides. Baldwin County. July, August. Frequent. 



Readily recognized by the smoothish shining sheaths and bright green smoothish 

 more or less strongly ciliate leaves. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum ciliatifolium dasyphyllum (Ell.) Chap. Fl.ed.3,578. 1897. 



Paspalum dasypJiyllum Ell. Sk. 1 : 105. 1807. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 1. c. Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 107. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Dry sandy pine barrens. Autauga 

 County, Prattville. Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Mobile and Baldwin counties. 

 July to September. Common. 



At once distinguished from the type by the somewhat diffuse stems and the dull 

 grayish hairy sheaths and leaves. Rarely found with the above, preferring the arid 

 purely sandy pine ridges. 



Type locality: ''Grows in dry cultivated ground [South Carolina and Georgia]." 



Economic uses : Of some value as a pasture grass of the dry pine barrens, where it 

 is frequent. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum laeve Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 44. 1803. SMOOTH PASPALUM. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 106. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 628. Chap. Fl. 571. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 499. Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 108. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Rhode Island to Kentucky, Missouri, and 

 Arkansas, south to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Grassy banks. June, July; not uncommon. 



Pilose forms; sheaths and leaves more or less covered with villous hairs (Panicum 

 laeve pilosum Scribner) ; from Lee County, Auburn (Baker $* Earle). 



Tvpe locality : "Hab. in Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum praecox Walt. Fl. Car. 75. 1788. EARLY-FLOWERING PASPALUM. 



Paspalum lentiferum Lam. Encycl. 5 : 31. 1804. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 106. Chap. Fl. 571. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 499. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina, west to eastern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Central and Lower Pine belts. Coast plain. Low wet pine barrens, 

 borders of pine-barren swamps. Autauga County, Prattville (E. A. Smith). Wash- 

 ington County, Yellowpine. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Frequent. May to 

 June. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum praecox curtisianum (Steud.) Vasey, Bull. Torr. Club, 13 : 165. 1886. 

 Paspalum curtisianum Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 26. 1855. 

 Louisiauian area. Florida to Mississippi. 

 ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low flat pine barrens. Mobile County, Dog River flats 



