374 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Central Pine belt. Most abundant from the prairie 

 to the coast region. In light loamy and heavy alluvial soils. Perennial. 

 Type locality : *' Hab. in Europa australi." 

 Economic uses : Valuable pasture grass. 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SPARTINA Schreb. Gen. 43. 1789. 

 (TRACHYNOTIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 63. 1803.) 



Seven species. Coarse, perennial marsh Brasses of the warmer temperate /one. 

 North America, about 6 species. 



Spartina stricta maritima (Walt.) Scribner, Mem. Torr. Club, 45. 1894. 



SALT MARSH GRASS. 



Dactylis maritima Walt. Fl. Car. 77. 1788. 



Spartina glabra Mnhl. Gram. 54. 1817. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 95. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 627. Chap. Fl. 556. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 

 527. 



Carolinian area. Coast of New York and New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. River marshes. Mobile County, estuary of Mobile 

 River ; Bayou Labatre, salt marshes. July to October ; rare. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Spartina patens (Ait.) Muhl. Gram. 55. 1817. SALT RUSH GRASS. 



Dactyl is patens Ait. Hort. Kew. 1 : 104. 1789. 



Track ynotiajuncea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 64. 1803. 



Spartina juncea Ell. Sk. 1 :94. 1817. 



Gray, Mab. ed. 6, 627. Chap. Fl. 556. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 527. 



Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisianian areas. Coast of southern New England, 

 New York to Florida, west to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Deep salt marshes. Mobile and Baldwin counties; 

 abundant, forming the chief growth of the saline marshes. July to August. 



Type locality not ascertained. Muhlenberg's locality : " Hab. in Carolina/' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Spartina polystachya (Michx.) Ell. Sk. 1 : 95. 1817. SALT REED GRASS. 



Trachynotia polystachya Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 64. 1803. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 62. Chap. Fl 556. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England, coast of New York to 

 Florida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain and Littoral belt. In fresh, brackish, and salt marshes. 

 Mobile County. Baldwin County, Bon Secour, salt marshes. July; common. 



Type locality : " Hab. in inundatis maritimis, a Nova Anglia ad Floridam." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CAMPULOSUS Desv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 2 : 189. 1810. 



(CTENIUM Panzer, Denkschr. Acad. Muench. 1813, 288, 1. 13. 1814.) 

 (MONOCERA Ell. Sk. 1 : 176. 1817.) 



Seven species, warmer regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. South and North 

 America, 4; southeastern United States, 1 species. 



Campulosus aroma' icus (Walt.) Scribner, Mem. Bull. Torr. Club, 5 :45. 1894. 



TOOTHACHE GRASS. 



Aegilops aromatica Walt. Fl. Car. 249. 1788. 



Chloris monostachya Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 59. 1803. 



Monocera aromatica Ell. Sk. 1 : 177. 1817. 



Cteninm americanum Spreng. Syst. 1 : 274. 1825. 



Ell. Sk. I.e. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 654. Chap. Fl. 558. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. Southern Virginia to North Carolina ; Florida 

 west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Sterile, dry, sandy, 

 or damp and exsiccated soil. Sparingly in the open pine woods of a purely sandy 

 soil in the Metamorphic hills. Lee County, Goldhill, about 800 feet. Abundant in 

 the flat poor pine barrens along the coast. July to September. Perennial. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



