332 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Ell. Sk. 2:591. Chap. Fl. 449. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina, Florida. 
Atabama: Upper division Coast Pine belt. Fresh water ponds. Washington 
County, Suggsville (Dr. Denny). Local. 
Type locality : ‘Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sagittaria filiformis J.G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6: 46, #. 15. 1894. 
FILirorM ARROWHEAD, 
“Submerged aquatic, with linear filiform phyllodia 6 inches to 2 feet long, x’; to} 
inch wide; scape slender, filiform, 2 to 4 feet long, branching from all but the upper- 
most verticils; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 4; inch long, at length evanescent; 
pedicels and branches of the scape filiform 14 to 34 inches long; 1 or 2 flowers of the 
lowest verticil pistillate, the rest all staminate; verticils 6 to 10, remote ; flowers 
2 to +; inch wide; sepals ovate, obtuse, scarious-margined; petals white, stamens 
7; filaments over twice as long as the anthers; mature achenia not yet collected ; 
ovary obovate, equaled by the slender oblique style. Floating in still water. Dog 
River, Mobile County, Ala., Mohr, August 14, 1893.” 
Louisianian area. Eastern and western Florida. 
Type locality: ‘‘Dog River, Mobile County, Ala.” 
Type specimen in Herb. Mo, Bot. Gard. 
Herb. Mobr. 
Sagittaria lancifolia falcata (Pursh) J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6:47, t. 16. 
1804, LANCE-LEAVED SAGITTARIA. 
Sagittaria falcata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:397. 1816. 
S. lancifolia media Micheli in DC. Monogr. Phan. 3:73. 1881. 
Ell. Sk. 2:591. Gray, Man. ed. 6,555. Chap. Fl. 449. 
MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA. ; 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, Delaware and Maryland,south along the coast 
to Florida and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast region. Open marshes. Mobile County, river swamp; Bayou 
Labatre, brackish swamps near the seashore. Flowers July, August; 2 to 3 feet 
high. Common. 
Type locality: “In ponds: Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sagittaria graminea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 190. 1803. GRASS-LEAVED SAGITTARIA,. 
Ell. Sk. 2:592. Gray, Man. ed. 6,555. Chap. Fl. 449. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:455. 
Canadian zone to Louisiantan area. Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Ontario, 
New England (Mount Desert Island); west to Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas; 
south to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast region. Shallow ponds, ditches. Mobile County, river marshes. 
June; frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Canada.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sagittaria cycloptera (J.G. Smith) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:20. 1897. 
PINE-BARREN SAGITTARIA. 
Sagittaria graminea cycloptera J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6:52, 1.20. 1894. 
“Slender, erect, 8 inches to 2 feet and over high from a horizontal or oblique rhi- 
zome; leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering gradually at both ends or reduced to slender 
attenuate phyllodia; scape simple or branching from the lowest verticil; internodes 
longer than fertile pedicels; bracts and stamens as in the species; achenium 7; to + 
inch long with an abrupt dorsal crest, an arched wing, and a medial vertical resin 
passage on either side, or when maturing under water only costate or wrinkled.” 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana, 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Sandy borders of pine-barren ponds. 
Washington County, Yellowpine, Deerpark. Mobile County, river marshes, Spring- 
hill. Flowers June to Angust. Frequent in the Lower Pine region. 
Type locality: ‘‘From South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Sagittaria chapmani (J.G. Smith) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:20. 1897. 
CHAPMAN’S SAGITTARIA. 
Sagitiaria graminea chapmani J.G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6:52, t. 22. 1894. 
_ “Twelve to 20 inches high; leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute, tapering at base 
into the petiole, 4 to 1} inches wide, 5 to 8 inches long; scape weak, branched or 
