342 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



(September, October). Baldwin County, Josephine, pine-barren swamps. Flowers 

 in June. Frequent. 



Easily distinguished by the more robust habit of growth, the flower stem 3 to 4 fete 

 high, the numerous spikes 2 to 3 inches long, and the leaves and sheaths softly 

 vinous-pubescent. 



Type locality : "M. A. Curtis legit in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum plicatulum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 45. 1803. 



Paspalum undulatum Poir. Encycl. 5 : 29. 1804. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 107. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 665 : ed. 3, 578. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 500. 

 Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 542. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO! TO ARGENTINA. 



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



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry sandy banks and copses. Baldwin County, Montrose. 

 Mobile County. Flowers in June; not infrequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Georgia et Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum bifidum (A. Bertol.) Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 192. 1897. 



ALABAMA PASPALUM. 



Panicum floridanum Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. 6, 3, pt. 2:248. 1834. Not 

 P. floridanum Michx. 



Panicum bifidum A. Bertol. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bolog. 2 : 598, t. 41, f. ,.\ 1850. 



P. alabamense Trin. ; Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. 64. 1855. 



Paspalum racemulosum Nutt. ; Chap. Fl. 571. 1860. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 500. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to Arkansas and eastern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Dry grassy pine barrens. Mobile 

 County, near Whistler, Grand Bay. August to October; not frequent. 



Type locality: "V. spp. Florida Alabama." 



H erb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum dilatatum Poir. Encycl. 5 : 35. 1804. HAIRY-FLOWERED PASPALFM. 



Paspalum ovatum Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2 : 43. 1829. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 666 ; ed. 3, 579. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 500. Scribner, ( Jrass. 

 Teun.32, t. 5,f. 99. 



BKAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHILE. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Pennsylvania and southern Virginia to 

 Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Border of fields, ditches, near dwell- 

 ings. Dallas County, Uniontown. Hale County, Gallion. Baldwin and Mobile 

 counties. Flowers June to August; frequent. 



Type locality : "Cette plante a etc" recueillie a Buenos-Ayres par Commerson." 



Economic uses: Valuable for green fodder and hay. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum floridanum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 44. 1803. 



LARGE-FLOWERED PASPALUM. 



Paspalus macrospermus Fluegge, Gram. Monogr. 172. 1810. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 107. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 629. Chap. Fl. 571. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:500. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. From Florida along the coast to southern Vir- 

 ginia and Delaware, and west along the Gulf coast to Texas; southern Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Copses, roadsides, borders of fields, 

 in light dry or damp soil. Mobile, Baldwin, and Escambia counties. June. Frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Florida et Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Paspalum glabratum (Engelm.) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 21. 1897. 



SMOOTH PASPALUM. 



Paspalum floridanum var. glabratum Engelm. ; Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 20. 1892. 



Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 500. 



Smooth and glaucous throughout; stem from a stout creeping rootstock 2A to 3 

 feet high, more slender than in the last ; panicle about 8 inches long with 4 to 6 erect- 

 spreading, short-stalked, more or less distant spikes, 2 to 2| _ inches long; leaves much 

 shorter than the culm; sheaths shorter than the joints; ligule short, blunt, charta- 

 ceous ; apikelets mostly in 2 rows on the flexuous rachis. 



Distinguished at once by the glaucous and glabrous stem and leaves 



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



