398 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Springy and muddy places. Lee 

 County, Auburn (Baker <f Earle). Lawrence County, Moulton. Cullman County, 

 800 feet altitude. Tuscaloosa, St. Clair, Washington, and Mobile counties. Flowers 

 June, July; common. Annual. 



Specimens from Auburn approach by the broad base of the low tubercle E. engel- 

 inanni Steud. 



Type locality not ascertained; in Roemer & Schultes : " In paludosis limosis humi- 

 dis, uquis stagnantibus, Pensylvaniae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eleocharis montana (H. B. K.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2 : 153. 1817. 



GLOSSY SPIKE-RUSH. 



Scirpus montantis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1 : 226. 1815. 



Eleocharis dombeyana Kunth, Enum. 2 : 145. 1837. 



E. arenicola Torr. ; Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 5 : 237. 1847. 



Chap. Fl. 516. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 469. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 222. 



MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to western Texas, and southern 

 California. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Miry borders of marshes. Mobile County, river swamps 

 near Three-mile Creek. Rhizoma dark brown, wiry, long-creeping. Flowers in 

 June. In the open forming large patches of bright glossy green. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Crescit in monte Quindiu, alt. 1600 hex." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2 : 151. 1817. 



CREEPING SPIKE-RUSH. 



Scirpus palustris L. Sp. PI. 1 : 47. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 77. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 575. Chap. Fl. 518. 



EUROPE, ASIA, MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, AUSTRALASIA. 



Boreal region to Louisianian area. Throughout North America from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific. 



Form with slender, almost filiform, glaucescent culms. 



ALABAMA : So far observed only in the marshes of the Mobile River, where it is 

 found in abundance. May, June. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Europae fossis et inundatis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eleocharis acicularis (L. ) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2 : 154. 1817. 



NEEDLE SPIKE-RUSH. 



Scirpus acicularis L. Sp. PI. 1 : 48. 1753. 



S. trichodes Muhl. Gram. 30. 1817. 



Ell. Sk. 1:76. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 576. Chap. Fl. 518. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 221. Coul- 

 ter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 468. 



EUROPE, ASIA, NORTH AMERICA, MEXICO. 



Canadian to Louisianian area. From Nova Scotia and Quebec to the Gulf, and 

 across the continent; from British Columbia to southern California. 



ALABAMA: Throughout the State, in swampy places; common. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Europa sub aquis purioribus." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eleocharis chaetaria Roem. & Sclmlt. Syst. Veg. 2 : 154. 1817. 



FEW-FLOWERED SPIKE-RUSH. 



Scirpus chaetarius Spreng. Pugill. 1 : 4. 1813. 



Heleocharia trijtora Boeckl. Flora, 63 : 437. 1880. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO, GUATEMALA, EAST INDIES. 



Louisianian area. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Springy places in sandy soil. Baldwin County, Daphne, 

 August 16. Copiously about the spring. Only locality known in the United St;it-s. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality not ascertained; locality of Roemer & Schultes: "lu gruminosis 

 humidiusculis Calcutae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Eleocharis tortilis (Link) Schult. Mant. 2 : 92. 1824. TWISTED SPIKE-HUSH. 



Scirpus tortilis Link, Jahrb. 3 : 78. 1820. 



S. simplex Ell. Sk. 1 : 76. 1816. 



Eleocharis simplex Torr. Ann. Lye,. N. Y. 3 : 306. 1836. 



Ell. Sk, 1:76. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 574. Chap. Fl. 516. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:468. 



