400 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Warrior table-land to Central Pine bolt. Marshy 

 places. Lauderdale County, in the barrens. Cullman County. Tuscaloosa County 

 (E. A. Smith). July ; not rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in America boreali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



DICHROMENA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 37. 1803. 



Over a dozen species. Tropical and subtropical America. Perennial. 



Dichromena colorata (L.) A. S. Hitchcock, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4 : 141. 1893. 



NARROW-LEAF UICIIROMENA. 



Schoenus coloratus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 43. 1753. 



Scirpus cephalotes Walt. Fl. Car. 71. 1788. 



Dichromena leucocephala Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 37. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 89. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 577. Chap. Fl. 530. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 469. 



BERMUDA, WEST INDIES, SOUTHERN MEXICO TO BRAZIL. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. Southern New Jersey to Florida, and west to 

 Texas. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Coast plain. Damp open grassy 

 places. Jackson County, Scottsboro ( E. A. Smith). Cullman, Tuscaloosa, and Mobile 

 counties. July, August ; frequent. 



Typo locality : " Hab. in Jamaica, Bahama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Dichromena latifolia Baldw.; Ell. Sk. 1:90. 1817. BROAD-LEAP DICHROMENA. 



Gray, Man . ed. 6, 577. Chap. Fl. 530. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 469. 



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

 eastern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Lower Pine region. Open swamps. Washington County, 

 Yellowpine. Mobile County. July to August; common. 



Type locality: "Mclntosh County, Ga., and in Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



FIMBRISTYLIS Vahl, Enum. 2 : 285. 1806. 



Fimbristylis spadicea (L.) Vahl, Enum. 2 : 294. 1806. BROWN CLUB-RUSH. 



Scirpus spadiceus L. Sp. PI. 1 : 51. 1753. 



Chap. Fl. 521, in part. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 372. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 470. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO, SOUTH TO BRAZIL. 



Louisiauian area. Georgia and Florida to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Littoral belt, brackish and salt marshes. Mobile and Baldwin coun- 

 ties. July to September. Perennial. 



In some localities forming a large part of the glumaceous vegetation of the brack- 

 ish and salt marshes. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Jamaicae fluviis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Fimbristylis puberula (Michx.) Vahl, Eiium. 2 : 289. 1806. 



PUBKRULENT CLUB RUSH. 



Scirpus puberulus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 31. 1803. 



S. ferrwi'meus Ell. Sk. 1:85. 1816. 



Fimbristylis spadicea var. puberula Chap. Fl. 522. 



Ell. 1. c. Chap. 1. c. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 572. 



FROM SOUTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA TO ARGENTINA. 



Louisianian area. Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain and Littoral region. Low flat pine barrens and salt 

 marshes. Mobile County, Fowl River Station, flat pine woods in close damp soil. 

 Baldwin County, salt marshes overflowed by the tide. April to July; frequent. 

 Perennial. 



Widely differing in the habit of growth and distribution, this plant can not be 

 connected with the last. Growing under the most varying conditions of soil, in 

 the salty marshes on the seashore as well as in the dry pine barrens of the coast 

 region farther inland, it is found without the slightest deviation in its characters. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Carolina et Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



