402 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Stenophyllus capillaris coarctatus (Ell.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 30. 1894. 



CLOSE-FLOWERED STEXOPHYLLUS. 



Scirpus coarctatus Ell. Sk. 1 : 83. 1816. 



IsoUpsis coarctatus Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 352. 1836. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 83. Chap. Fl. 523. 



Louisianian area. Coast of South Carolina to Florida, and west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry pine ridges, sandy fields. Mobile County, 

 Cottage Hill. September; infrequent. Annual. 



Type locality: "Grows in very dry sandy soils. Around Beaufort, common." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



SCIRPUS L. Sp. PI. 1:47. 1753. 1 



About 250 species; cosmopolitan from the subarctic to tropical zones. 

 Scirpus nanus Spreng. Pugill. 1 : 4. 1815. DWARF SALT-WATER RUSH. 



Scirpus parvulus Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2 : 124. 1817. 



S. capillaceus Ell. Sk. 1 : 75. 1816. 



Eleocharis pygmaea Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 313. 1836. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 576. Chap. Fl. 518. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 :471. 



SKACOAST OF EUROPE, SOUTH AFRICA. 



Alleghenian to Louisiauian area. New Brunswick, Quebec, Vancouver Island, 

 south to Florida, Texas, and California? 



ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Muddy banks occasionally overflowed by salt water. 

 Dauphin Island. Baldwin County, Perdido Bay. Perennial. 



Type locality (Spreng. Syst.): "Ad lacum Koelmensem flor. halens." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scirpus carinatus (Hook. & Am.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7 : 392. 1868. Not Smith, 

 Engl. Fl. 1 : 60. 1824. KKELKD CLUB-KI SH. 



Isolepis carinaia Hook. & Am. ; Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 349. 1836. 

 Chap. Fl. Suppl. i,60. AVats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 217. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 471. 

 Louisianian area. Mississippi to Texas and Arkansas. 

 ALABAMA: Credited to the State by Britton. Coast plain? 



Type locality : "Near New Orleans, T. Drummond!; on the Arkansas River, Nuttall!" 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scirpus cubensis Poepp. &. Kunth in Kunth, Enum. 2 : 172. 1837. 



CUBAX CLUB-RUSH. 



Scirpus ablepharm Griseb. Cat. PI, Cub. 240. 1866. 



Oxucaryum schomburkianum Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2, pt. 1 : 90. 1842. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 660; ed. 3, 548. 



CUBA. SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA. 



Louisianian area. Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Coast region. Open swamps. Mobile County, estuary of Mobile River. 

 Three-mile Creek, on floating rotting timber. August; rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Cuba in paludibus. (Poeppig legit.)'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scirpus debilis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1:55. 1814. WEAK CLUB-RUSH. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 79. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 580. Chap. Fl. 519. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England, west to Michigan, Minnesota, 

 and Nebraska, south to South Carolina and Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Without specific locality, Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 264. Annual. 



Type locality : " In wet meadows : Pennsylvania." 



Scirpus americanus Pers. Syn. 1 : 68. 1805. THREE-EDGED CLUB-RUSH. 



Scirpus triqueler Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 30. 1803. Not L. 



S. punyens Vahl, Enum. 2 : 255. 1806. 



Ell. Sk. 1:80. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 579. Chap. Fl. 519. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 218. Coul- 

 ter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 471. 



MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA. 



Throughout North America, on beaches, and borders fresh and saline swamps from 

 the Arctic regions to the Gulf. 



!N. L. Britton, list of species of the genera Scirpus and Rynchospora occurring 

 in North America, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, pp. 74 to 93. 1892. 



