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Carolinian and Lonisianian areas. From Florida along the coast to New York 
and central Pennsylvania; Gulf States to southern Missouri and Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt. Coast plain. Low damp pine barrens, abounding in 
flat, barren, and low worn-out ground. 
Type locality : South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Andropogon glomeratus hirsutior (Hackel) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:21. 1897. 
Andropogon macrourus var. hirsutior Hackel in DC. Monogr. Phan. 6: 409. 1889. 
ue with long hairy tubercles, green. Seeds smooth, or roughly fimbriate at 
the base. 
Louisianian area. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Flat pine barrens. Frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Alabama prope Mobile (C. Mohr). ” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Andropogon glomeratus glaucopsis (Ell.) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:21. 1897. 
Andropogon macrourus var. glaucopsis Ell. Sk.1:150. 1817. 
Louisianian area, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida. 
ALABAMA: In wet soil. Mobile. River marshes. October. Four to 5 feet high, 
robust. Frequent. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in damp soils [South Carolina and Georgia].” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Andropogon virginicus L. Sp. Pl. 2:1046. 1753. Broom SEDGE. 
Andropogon dissitiflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:57. 1803. 
A, vaginatus Ell. Sk. 1:148. 1816. 
A, virginicus var. viridis Hackel in DC. Monogr. Phan. 6:410. 1889. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,638. Chap. F1.582. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 496. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England to Florida, west to 
Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, and southern Illinois. 
ALABAMA: All over the State. In close sandy soil, damp or dry, open pine 
woods, worn-out fields, and pastures. Most abundant. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Andropogon virginicus dealbatus Mohr; Hackel in DC. Monogr. Phan. 6:411. 1889. 
Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:11. 
Base of the smooth leaves covered with white bloom; stems and leaves becoming 
whitish. : 
Coast plain. In damp sandy soil. Mobile County. Not common. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Alabama prope Mobile (Mohr).” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Andropogon capillipes Nash, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 431. 1900. 
Andropogon virginicus glaucus Hackel in DC. Monogr. Phan. 6:411. 1889. Not 4. 
glaucus Retz. 1789. 
Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3: 11. 
G)aucous throughout. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Close sandy soil. Mobile County. October. Frequent. 
Type locality: ‘Florida (Curtiss).” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Andropogon tracyi Nash. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 433. 1900. 
A tufted glabrous perennial, with the numerous basal leaves about half as long as 
the culm; culm 1} to 24 feet long, branched above the middle, nodes of inflorescence 
barbed with long silky hairs; sheaths shorter than the internodes; ligule scarious; 
leaves erect, sparingly hirsute on the upper surface near the base, + to 8 inches long; 
inflorescence 8 to 12 inches long, narrow, the branches erect, the racemes in pairs, 
the sessile spikelets about twice as long as the stout internodes, densely clothed 
with silvery white hairs, awn about % to ¢ inch long; pedicellate spikelet wanting 
or a minute rudimentary scale. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Dry soil. Lee County, ‘Auburn, October, 1897 
(F. 8. Farle).” ; ; ; 
Between 4. virginicus and 4. longiberbis. Distinguished from the former by its 
glabrous sheaths and stout racemes; from the latter, with which it is more nearly 
related, by the entire absence of the characteristic lanose pubescence. . 
Type locality: ‘‘ Type collected by Prof. 8. M. Tracy, at Columbus, Miss., October 
14, 1895.” 
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