362 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Coast region. Waste places. Mobile County, Springhill. September. 

 1891. Annual. Probably adventive from the tropics. 

 Type locality : " Hab. in Jamaica, Curassao." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cenchrus myosuroides H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1 : 115, t. 35. 1815. 



SOUTHERN HEDGEHOG GRASS. 



Panicum cenchroides Ell. Sk. 1 : 111. 1817. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 667 ; ed. 3, 588. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 39. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 511. 



CUBA, PERU. 



1 ,011 isia ii i an area. Coast of Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mobile, adventive with ballast. First observed in 1892-93 ; plentiful. 

 July to August. Perennial. 



Type locality: Island " Cayo Flamingo prope portum Cubensem, Batabauo," and 

 shore of Pacific "prope vicum Peruvianorum, Patibilca." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



STENOTAPHRUM Trin. Fund. Agrost. 175. 1820. 

 Three species, seacoast of tropical and subtropical regions. North America 1. 



Stenotaphrum secundum (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 794. 1891. 



ST. AUGUSTINE GRASS. 



Ischaemum secundum Walt. Fl. Car. 249. 1788. 



Stenotaphrum ainericanum Schrank. Hort. Monach. 98. 1819-1824. 



Rottboellia dimidiata Sw. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. 4:89. 1810. 



Ell. Sk. 1:179. Chap. Fl. 579. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:40. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 51 1. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 544. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO ARGENTINA, SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



Louisianian area. Sandy seashore from South Carolina to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Mobile County, Dauphin Island. Baldwin County, 

 Point Clear, Josephine. Not infrequent. June to August. Perennial. (?) 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv . Herb. Mohr. 



HYDROCHLOA Beauv. Agrost. 165. 1812. 



A single aquatic species. Atlantic North America. 

 Hydrochloa fluitans (Michx.) Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 98. 1896. 



Zizania fluitans Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 75. 1803. 



Hydrochloa carolinensis Beauv. Agrost. 165. 1812. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 587. Chap. Fl. 519. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 40. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Brooks and pine-barren streams. 

 Baldwin County, Point Clear. Mobile County. June; common. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. ad lacum Champlain." (Erroneous.) 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LUZIOLA Juss. Gen. PL 33. 1789. 



About 6 species; low perennial aquatics. Tropical and subtropical America. 

 United States, 2 species. 



Luziola alabameiisis Chap. Fl. 584. 1860. 



Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 40. Chap. Fl. 1. c. ; ed. 3, 589. 



Louisiauian area. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Sandy shallow brooklets. Conecuh County. 

 Mobile County, Langdon Station. June. Not frequent. 



Type locality: "Brooklyn. Conecuh County, Alabama. J. F. Beaumont." 



Herb. Geot. Stirv. Herb. Mohr. 



ZIZANIA L. Sp. PI. 2:991. 1753. WATER OATS. 



Perennial aquatic; 1 species. North America and northeastern Asia. 

 Zizania aquatica L. Sp. PI. 2 : 991. 1753. WILD RICE. INDIAN RICE. 



Zizania clavulosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 75. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 585. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 635. Chap. Fl. 549. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 511. Scribner, Grass. Tenii. 2 : 58. 



