404 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Alleghenian to Lonisiani.in area. Quebec; New England to Minnesota, Kansas, 

 Illinois, and south from New York to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Deep marshes. Mobile County, banks East Fowl River. 

 July; rare. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Common in the western parts of tbe State of New York, 7>r. 

 Gray!; on the Missouri above St. Louis, Dr. lialdwin!" 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. 



Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl, Enuin. 2 : 274. 1806. LEAKY Bn.ursn. 



Scirpm exaltatus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 56. 1814. 



Ell. Sk. 1:87,88. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 582. Chap. Fl. 520. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Southern New England to North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Grassy swamps. Winston County, Colliers Creek, 

 1,600 feet. August; rare. Perennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America boreali f " 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Scirpus cyperinus eriophorum (Michx.) Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. 11 : 82. 1892. 



WOOL GRASS. 



Scirpus eriophorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 33. 1803. 



Eriophorum cyperinum var. laxum Gray, Man. ed. 6, 582. 1860. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 91. Gray, Man. 1. c. Chap. Fl. 521. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick and Ontario south to Florida 

 and along the Gulf to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine region to Coast plain. Grassy swamps. Tuscaloosa, 

 Mobile, and Baldwin counties. July to August; frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Hab. a Virginia ad Georgian!.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Scirpus lineatus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 32. 1803. REDDISH BULRUSH. 



Trichophorum lineatum Pers. Syn. 1 : 69. 1805. 



Eriophorum lineatum Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 3 : 1052. 1883. 



Ell. Sk. 1:87. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 582. Chap. Fl. 521. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 472. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario, New England west to Michigan, Min- 

 nesota, Kansas, and Missouri, south to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the coast. Most frequent in the Coast Pino belt. 

 Swampy banks of pine-barren streams. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile 

 and Baldwin counties. July, August; not infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



FUIRENA Rottb. Descr. et Icon. 70, /. 19, f. 3. 1773.' UMKUKLLA GRASS. 



About 25 species. Perennial. Tropical and wanner temperate America. Atlantic 

 North America, 6. 



Fuirena scirpoidea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 38, t. 7. 1803. 



RUSH-LIKE UMBRELLA GRASS. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 54. Chap. Fl. 514. 



Louisianian area. Coast of Georgia and Florida to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Springy banks and brackish sandy swamps. Bald- 

 win County, eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Point Clear. Mobile County, West Fowl 

 River, Dauphin Island. July to August; frequent. 



Typo locality: "Hab. in paludosis aestate exsiccabilibus Floridar." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Fuirena squarrosa breviseta Coville, Bull. Torr. Club. 17: 6. 1890. 



SQUARROSE FUIRENA. 



Fuirena squarrosa Chap. Fl. 514. 1860. 



F. squarrosa a Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3:291. 1836. 



Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:473. 



Lonisianiau area. From North Carolina to Florida; west to Louisiana and eastern 

 Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Borders of grassy swamps and ditches. Mobile County. 

 July ; infrequent. 



1 Frederick V. Coville, Revision of the United States species of Fuirena, Bull. 

 Torr. Club, vol. 17, pp. 1 to 8. 1890. 



