GRASSES. 383 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Pennsylvania, southern Illinois, and 

 Missouri, south to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie belt to Tennessee Valley. Rich wooded banks, shaded 

 borders of streams. Morgan County. Blount County, banks of Mulberry River. 

 Lee County, Auburn. Tuscaloosa County ( E. A. Smith). Tallapoosa and Montgomery 

 counties. Dallas County. Wilcox County, Allenton. June, July; frequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in occidentalibus montium Alleghanis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Uniola laxa (L.) B. S. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 69. 1888. SLENDER SPIKE-GRASS. 



Holcns laxus L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1048. 1753. 



Cuiohi graciUs Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 71. 1803. 



Ell. Sk'. 1:168. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 663. Chap. Fl. 566. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 545. Scribuer, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 301, t. 35, f. 138. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New York, Pennsylvania, and New 

 Jersey, south and west to Florida, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Sandy shaded swamps ; common 

 all over the Central and Coast Pine belts. July to September. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Uniola longifolia Scribner, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 229. 1894. 



LONG-LEAF SPIKE-GRASS. 



Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 617. 



Louisianian area. Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region and Coast plain. Low shady places. Lee County, 

 Auburn (Baker $ Earle, 653). Mobile County (T. H. Kearney}, July, 1895. Not 

 rare. 



Type locality : " Little Stone Mountain, Dekalb County, Georgia, July (John K. 

 Small)/' and other localities in Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee. 



Herb Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Uniola nitida Baldwin ; Ell. Sk. 1 : 167. 1817. SMOOTH SPIKE-GRASS. 



Louisianiau area. South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Lower Pine region and Coast plain. Sandy wet borders of brooks. 

 Mobile County, West Fowl River; Bayou Sara, shaded swampy banks of creek. 

 Not frequent. 



Type locality: " Grows at Crooked River bridge, Camden County, Ga. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



DISTICHLIS Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 : 104. 1819. 



Two or 3 species, perennials, North America. Saline swamps of the seacoast and 

 alkaline plains in the interior. 



Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2 : 415. 1887. 



MARSH SPIKE GRASS. 



Uniola spicata L. Sp. PI. 1 : 71. 1753. 



Distichlis maritima Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 : 104. 1819. 



Brizopyrum spicatum Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 403. 1840. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 166. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 663. Chap. Fl. 562. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 546. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 306. 



AUSTRALIA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of New York to Florida, west to Texas. 

 On the Pacific slope, Vancouver Island to California. 



ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Salt marshes of the seashore; abundant. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Americae borealjs inaritimis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



BRIZA L. Sp. PI. 1 : 70. 1753. 



Twelve species, of temperate regions of Europe and Asia. 

 Briza media L. Sp. PL 1 : 70. 1753. QUAKING GRASS. 



Introduced and escaped from cultivation in the Atlantic States from Ontario 

 southward. 



ALABAMA : In several localities in northern and southern parts. Cullmau and 

 Mobile counties. Annual. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Europae pratis siccioribus." 

 Herb. GeoL Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



