436 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain; wet sandy places, shallow ditches. 

 Mohile County. May, June; not rare. 

 Type locality: "Northwestern Texas." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



JUNCOIDES Adans. Fain. PL 2 : 47. 1763. 

 (LuzuLA DC. Fl. Fr. 3:158. 1805.) 



Forty species, of temperate regions, mostly European. North America, 16. 



Juucoides campestre (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2:722. 1891. 



COMMON WOOD KUSII. 



Juncus campestris L. Sp. PI. 1 : 329. 1753. 



Luzula campestris DC. Fl. Fr. 3: 161. 1805. 



Ell. Sk. 1:410. Gray, Man.ed. 6, 546. Chap. Fl. 493. Coulter. Coutr.Nat. Herb 

 2 : 451 . Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 203. 



EUROPE, ASIA, NORTH AFRICA. NEW ZEALAND. 



Boreal region to Louisianian area. From Greenland to Alaska. All over Eastern 

 North America to California. 



ALABAMA: All over the State. Dry hills. Mobile County. April; frequent. 

 Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Europae pascuis siccioribus." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LILIACEAE. Lily Family. 1 



TOFIELDIA Huds. Fl. Angl. 2 : 157. 1778. FALSE ASPHODEL. 



Fourteen species, mostly of colder temperate regions. North America, the Andes, 

 Asia. 



Tofieldia racemosa (Walt.) B. S. P. Cat. N. Y. 55. 1888. 



Melanihium racemosum Walt. Fl. Car. 126. 1788. 



Narthedum piibens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 209. 1803. 



Tofieldic, pubescens Pers. Syn. 1 : 399. 1805. 



Ell. Sk. 1: 424. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 532. Chap. Fl. 492. 



Louisianian area. New Jersey, North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Damp pine barrens, borders of ponds 

 and swamps. July; frequent. Flowers white. Perennial. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CHAMAELIRIUM Willd. Mag. Nat. Fr. Berl. 2 : 18. 1808. 



One species, perennial; North America. 



Chamaelirium luteum (L.) Gray, Man. 503. 1848. DEVIL'S BIT. 



Veratrum luteum L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1044. 1753. 



Melanthium dioicum Walt. Fl. Car. 126. 1788. 



Chamaelirium carolinianum Willd. Mag. Nat. Fr. Berl. 2 : 19. 1808. 



Helonias dioica Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 243. 1814*. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 423. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 532. Chap. Fl. 491. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Ontario, southern New England to Michigan, 

 western New York, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Atlantic and Gulf States to 

 Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Dry open woods; most frequent in the piue barrens. 

 May, June; common. Flowers white. 



Economic uses : The root, called ' ' starwort," or " unicorn root," is used medicinally. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia, Canada." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



1 S. Watson, Revision of the North American Liliaceae, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 14, 

 pp. 213 to 288, 1879. 



