3842 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
(September, October). Baldwin County, Josephine, pine-barren swamps. Flowers 
in June. Frequent. 
Easily distinguished by the more robust habit of growth, the flower stem 3 to 4 fete 
high, the numerous spikes 2 to 3 inches long, and the leaves and sheaths softly 
villous-pubescent. : 
Type locality: ‘‘M. A. Curtis legit in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Paspalum plicatulum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:45. 1803. 
Paspalum undulatum Poir. Encycl. 5:29. 1804. 
Ell. Sk.1:107. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 665; ed. 3,578. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 500. 
Griseb. F]. Brit. W. Ind. 542. 
West InpiEs, Mexico! TO ARGENTINA. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina, Florida!, west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Drysandy banksand copses. Baldwin County, Montrose, 
Mobile County. Flowers in June; not infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Georgia et Florida.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Paspalum bifidum (A. Bertol.) Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:192. 1897. 
ALABAMA PASPALUM. 
Panicum floridanum Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. 6, 3, pt. 2: 248. 1834. Not 
P. floridanum Michx. ; 
Panicum bifidum A. Bertol. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bolog. 2 : 598, t. 41, f. 2. 1850. 
P. alabamense Trin.; Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. 64. 1855. 
Paspalum racemulosum Nutt.; Chap. F1.571. 1860. 
Chap. Fl.l.c. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 500. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to Arkansas and eastern Texas. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Dry grassy pine barrens. Mobile 
County, near Whistler, Grand Bay. August to October; not frequent. 
Type locality: “V. spp. Florida Alabama.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Paspalum dilatatum Poir. Encycl. 5:35. 1804. HAIRY-FLOWERED PASPALUM. 
Paspalum ovatum Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2:43. 1829, 
Chap. FL Suppl. 666; ed. 3,579. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:500. Scribner, Grass. 
Tenn. 32, t. 5, f. 99. 
BraziL, ARGENTINA, CHILE. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Pennsylvania and southern Virginia to 
Florida and Texas. 
ALaBaMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Border of fields, ditches, near dwell- 
ings. Dallas County, Uniontown. Hale County, Gallion. Baldwin and Mobile 
counties. Flowers June to August; frequent. 
Type locality: ‘Cette plante a été recueillie 4 Buenos-Ayres par Commerson.” 
Iconomic uses: Valuable for green fodder and hay. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Paspalum floridanum Michx. F]. Bor. Am.1:44. 1803. ; 
. LARGE-FLOWERED PAsPALUM. 
Paspalus macrospermus Fluegge, Gram. Monogr. 172. 1810. 
eee Sk.1:107. Gray, Man. ed. 6,629. Chap. F1.571. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2 :500. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. From Florida along the coast to southern Vir- 
ginia and Delaware, and west along the Gulf coast to Texas; southern Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Copses, roadsides, borders of fields, 
inlight dry ordamp soil. Mobile, Baldwin, and Escambia counties, June. Frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Florida et Georgia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Paspalum glabratum (Engelm.) Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:21. 1897. 
SMOOTH PasPALUM. 
Paspalum floridanum var. glabrautum Engelm.; Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:20. 1892. 
Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2: 500. 
Smooth and glaucons throughout; stem from a stout creeping rootstock 2} to 3 
feet high, more slender than in the last; panicle about 8 inches long with 4 to 6 erect- 
spreading, short-stalked, more or less distant spikes, 2 to 24 inches long; leaves much 
shorter than the culm; sheaths shorter than the joints; ligule short, blunt, charta- 
ceous; spikelets mostly in 2 rows on the flexuous rachis. 
Distinguished at once by the glaucous and glabrous stem and leaves 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, west to Texas. 
