GRASSES. 389 



Alleghenian to Louisianiau area. New England. Range of the typo. Reported 

 from Nebraska. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. Rocky and dry shaded banks. Mobile County, found only 

 on borders of hammock lauds, western bay shore. June. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. ad ripas et in siccis Penusylvaniae, floret Julio." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Elymus canadensis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 83. 1753. 



CANADIAN WILD RYE OR LYME GRASS. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 673. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2 : 5M). 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Canada to Georgia, west to Texas and Arkansas. 

 ALABAMA: Central prairie. Montgomery, Pentulalla Creek. Dry banks. July. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Canada. Kalin. " 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HYSTRIX Moench, Meth. 294. 1794. 

 (ASPRELLA Willd. Enum. 132. 1809.) 

 (GYMNOSTICHUM Schreb. Beschr. Graes. 2 : 127. 1810.) 



Four species, temperate zones. Siberia, New Zealand. North America, 2 species. 

 Hystrix hystrix (L.) Millspaugh, Fl. W. Va. 474. 1892. BOTTLE BRUSH GRASS. 



Elymus liystrix L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 124. 1762. 



G ymii ostichnm liyslrix Schreb. Beschr. Graes. 2 : 127, t. 47. 1810. 



Ell. Sk. 1:181. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 674. Chap. Fl. 567. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 551. Scribner, Grass Tenn. 2 : 127, t. 47, f. 183. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New Brunswick, Ontario; New England to 

 Nebraska, south to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Cullmau County. Blount County, Warnock Moun- 

 tain. June; not frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality not given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ARUNDINARIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 73. 1803. 



About 24 species, perennials. Temperate America, Asia. 

 Arundinaria gigantea (Walt.) Chap. Fl. 561. 1860. CANE. 



Arundo gigantea Walt. Fl. Car. 81. 1788. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 96, in part. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 674. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 551. 

 Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 129, t. 47, f. 187. 



Caroliuian and Louisianian areas. From southern Tennessee and lower North 

 Carolina to Florida, central Texas, and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Alluvial banks of all the larger streams. Fruit received from Lauder- 

 dale County in 1893, and from Russell County in 1895. April, May. Seed crop in 

 Russell County produced for the first time within the memory of the present gener- 

 ation, and in greatest abundance. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Arundinaria tecta (Walt.) Muhl. Gram. 191. 1817. SWITCH CANE REED. 



Arundo tecta Walt. Fl. Car. 81. 1788. 



Arundinaria macrosperma var. suffruticosa Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. 26:15. 1868. 



Ell. Sk. 1:97, in part. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 674. Chap. Fl. 561. Coulter, Contr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 551. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 129, t. 47, /. 187. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Middle and lower country of the South Atlan- 

 tic States from southern Virginia to Florida; Kentucky, Ohio, southern Illinois, 

 southwestern Missouri, and Arkansas to the Gulf States west to Texas. 



This is the cane of the canebrakes in the alluvial forests subject only to occa- 

 sional overflow, and of the damp black lands of the Prairie region. 



ALABAMA: Over the State outside of the mountains and table-lands; most frequent 

 from the Central Pine region to the coast, along the water courses and in low, damp 

 woods. Flowers April and May; flowering stalks mostly from naked radical 

 shoots, scarcely over 12 or 18 inches high. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



