434 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Juncus repens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 191. 1803. CREEPING RUSH. 



Cephaloxys ftabellata Desv. Journ. Bot. 1 : 324, t. 2. 1808. 



Ell. Sk. 1:408. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 541. Chap. Fl. 496; ed. 3,523. Coulter, Coutr. 

 Nat. Herb. 2 : 450. 



CUBA. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Muddy ditches and borders of swamps. Mobile County. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr 



Juncus torreyi Coville, Bull. Torr. Club. 22 : 303. 1895. 



LARGE-HEADED RUSH. 



Juncus nodosus var. megaceplialus Torr. Fl. N. Y. 2 : 326. 1843. 



J. megaceplialus Wood, Bot. ed. 2, 7->4. 1861. Not Curtis, 1835. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 545. Coulter, Contr. Nal. Herb. 2 : 448. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 208. 

 Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 392. 



Alleghenian to Louisiauian area. Ontario west to Saskatchewan ; New England 

 to Minnesota, west to Colorado, California, Oregon south to Mississippi and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region, Central prairies, and Coast plain. Open prairies 

 and pine forests. Lee County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle). Montgomery County. Mobile 

 County, Langdon's Station. July; not frequent. 



Type locality not ascertained; Wood's locality: "Borders of streams and lakes, 

 New York to Wisconsin, south to Florida." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Juncus brachycarpus Engelm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis 2 : 467. 1868. 



SHORT-FRUITED RUSH. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 544. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 521. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 448 

 Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 393. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Ontario, Kentucky, and Missouri, 

 south to Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Open grassy places. Montgomery County. 

 July ; not frequent. 



Type locality : " In the Mississippi Valley from central Ohio, Michigan, and Illi- 

 nois to Missouri! Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; also, if the locality 

 is correctly reported, near Charleston, 8. C. 



Herb. Mohr. Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Juncus polycephalus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 192. 1803. MANY-HEADED RUSH. 



Juncus nodosus polycephalus Pers. Syn. 1 : 384. 1805. 



J. scirpoides var. polycephalus forma minor Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2 : 468. 

 1868. 



J. engelmanni Buchenau, Krit. Verz. June. 67. 1880. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 409. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 545. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 447. Britt. 

 & Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 393. 



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

 Texas. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region and Coast plain. Border of pine-barren swamps, 

 brooks, and ditches. Washington County, Yellowpine. Baldwin and Mobile 

 counties. July, October; frequent. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Juncus scirpoides Lam. Encycl. 3 : 267. 1789. PRICKLY-HEADED RUSH. 



Juncus polycephalus tenuifolius Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 193. 1803. 



J. echinatus Ell. Sk. 1 : 410. Not Muhl. 



J. macroxtemon J. Gay; La Harpe, Monogr. June. 140. 1825. 



J. soirpoides var. macrostemon Eugelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2 : 467. 1868. 



J. scirpoides genuinus Buchenau, Monogr. June. 323. 1890. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 410. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 545. Chap. Fl. 494. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2: 448. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New England to Florida, west to Texas and 

 Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine region to Coast plain. Miry places, ditches. Tuscaloosa 

 County (E. A. Smith). Bibb, Washington, and Mobile counties. June, July ; common. 



Type locality : " Cette plante crolt dans la Caroline in^ridiouale, d'oii elle a 6t6 rap- 

 port^e par M. Fraser." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



