448 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



CRINTJM L. Sp. PI. 2:92. 1753. 



About 60 species, perennials. West Indies, South America, North America. South 

 Atlantic States, 1. 



Crinum americanum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 292. 1753. 



Chap. Fl. 468. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 430 b. 



MEXICO, CUBA. 



Louisianian area. Florida to Louisiana, eastern Texas, and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Open marshes and river swamps. Mobile and Baldwin 

 counties. May to July. Flowers white, fragrant; anthers purple. Frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



AGAVE L. Sp. PI. 1 : 323. 1753. AMERICAN ALOIS. 



About 100 species, perennials, mostly Mexican. United States 14, mostly south- 

 western continental and on the Pacific slope (Lower Sonoran area). Atlantic States, 1. 



Agave virginica L. Sp. PL 1 : 323. 1753. FALSE ALOE. THICK-LEAVED SNAKE ROOT. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 402. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 516. Chap. Fl. 468. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 

 429. 



Carolinian and Louisianitm areas. Maryland, Virginia, southern Indiana, Missouri ; 

 throughout the South Atlantic and Gulf States west to the Rio Grande in Texas. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. Dry rocky and sandy soil, open woods. Most frequent 

 in the mountains. Lawrence County, Moulton. Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, 

 Washington, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. July. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



HYPOXIS L. Syst. ed. 10, 2 : 986. 1759. 



Fifty species; tropical Asia, Africa, Australia, tropical and Atlantic America. 

 United States, 3. 



Hypoxis hirsuta (L.) Coville, Mem. Torr. Club. 5 : 118. 1894. STAR GRASS. 



Ornithof/alum hirsutum L. Sp. PI. 1 : 306. 1753. 



Hypoxis erecta L. Syst. ed. 10, 2 : 986. 1759. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 396. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 517. Chap. Fl. 468. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 429. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Assiuiboia, Ontario; throughout the Atlantic 

 States west to Texas, Arkansas, and eastern Kansas. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Open grassy woods. Prairies; common everywhere. 

 Flowers yellow. March to July. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Hypoxis rigida Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 495. 



Louisianian area. Wostern Florida. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region, near the coast. Dry pine barrens. Mobile County, 

 Springhill (F. W. Bush.} August. Rare. 



Type locality : " Low pine barrens, near the coast, West Florida. 7 ' 



Herb. Mohr. 



LOPHIOLA Ker-Gawl. Bot. Mag. 40: 1. 1,~>9(!. 1814. 



One species, North America. South Atlantic States. 

 Lophiola americana (Pursh) Coville, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5 : 118. 1894. 



Conostylis americana Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 224, t. 6. 1814. 



Lophiola atirea Ker Gawl. Bot. Mag. t. 1596. 1814. 



Ell. Sk. 1:403. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 512. Chap. Y\. 470. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey, along the coast to Florida, west 

 to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Lower Pine belt. Coast plain. Boggy pine-barren swamps. Escambia 

 County, Flomaton. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers in June, July; yellow. 

 Frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "In boggy soil, on the pine barrens of New Jersey and Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



