382 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Coast plain. Damp grassy places, banks of 

 streams. Mobile County. Autauga County, Prattville. July to August; not rare. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 



Eragrostis capiUaris (L.) Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2 : 505. 1829. LACE GKASS. 



Poa capiUaris L. Sp. PL 1 : 68. 1753. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 661 . Chap. Fl. 564. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 542. 



MEXICO, BRAZIL. 



Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisianian areas. New York and Pennsylvania, west 

 to Iowa, Missouri, and Tennessee: south to Florida, and west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : Central Pine belt to the Coast Plain. Dry sandy hills, borders of fields 

 and roadsides. Autauga County, Prattville (E. A. Smith). Monroe County, Clai- 

 borne. Clarke County, Thomasville. Mobile and Baldwin counties. June, July; 

 frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia, Canada, D. Ealm." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eragrostis hirsuta (Michx.) Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 98. 1896. 



ROUGH-HAIRY ERAGROSTIS. 



Poa hirsuta Michx. FL Bor. Am. 1 : 68. 1803. 



Louisianian area. Carolina to Florida. 



A stouter and larger plant than the above, with which it has been confounded, 3 

 feet and over high, leaves longer than the culm, with sheaths hairy ; panicle ample, 

 wide-spreading; spikelets scattered, long pedicellate, 4 to 5 flowered. 



ALABAMA : Central Prairie region. Coast plain. Waste places, roadsides. Mobile 

 County, near dwellings. Autauga County. Prattville (E. A. Smith). September to 

 November. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina inferiore." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



MELICA L. Sp. PL 1 : 66. 1753. 



Over 30 species, perennials, in the temperate /oues of the Old World and Amer- 

 ica. North America, 12. 



Melica mutica Walt. Fl.Car. 78. 1788. HONEY GRASS. 



Melica glabra Michx.' Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 62. 1803. In part. 



Melica mutica var. glabra Gray, Man. ed. 5, 626. 1867. 



Ell. Sk;- 1 : 154. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 662. Chap. Fl. 560. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 545. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Ohio Valley from West Virginia to Missouri 

 and Arkansas, south to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Coast plain. Rich open woods and copses. Lee 

 County, Auburn ( Underwood <)' Earle). Tuscaloosa County. Baldwin County, Point 

 Clear. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



UNIOLA L. Sp. PL 1 : 71. 1753. 



Five species, perennials; eastern North America, 4. 

 Uniola paniculata L. Sp. PL 1 : 71. 1753. SEA OATS. 



Uniola maritima Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 71. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 166. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 662. Chap. FL 566. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:545. 



SOUTHERN MEXICO, PANAMA, ECUADOR. 



Louisianian area. Southern Virginia and North Carolina to Florida, thence west 

 to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands (dunes) on the seashore. Mobile and 

 Baldwin counties. July, August. Frequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Cr.olma." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Uniola latifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 70. 1803. BROAD-LEAP SPIKE-GRASS. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 167. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 663. Chap. FL 566. Coulter, Contr. Nat, Herb. 

 2:545. 



