370 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
AGROSTIS L. Sp. P1.1:6. 1753. 
About 100 species, chiefly of the north temperate zone. North America, 26. 
Agrostis alba L. Sp. Pl. 1: 63. 1753. Friorin. WHITE Benr Grass, 
Agrostis alba stolonifera Scribner, Grass.Tenn. 2:79, t. 26, f. 103. 1894. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 647. Chap. FI. ed. 3, 599. 
EUROPE. ; 
Extensively naturalized from Canada to the Mexican Gulf. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Low damp banks. Mobile County, April to May. 
Perennial. ; 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Europae nemoribus.” 
Economic uses: A fine winter grass. 
Herb. Geol.Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Agrostis alba vulgaris (With.) Thurber, in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 647. 1890. 
Herp’s Grass. RepTop. 
Agrostis vulgaris With. Bot. Arr. Brit. Pl. ed. 3, 132. 1796. 
Gray, Man. 1.v. Chap. Fl. ed. 3,599. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:78, t. 26, f. 102. 
ALABAMA: Introduced from Europe, and cultivated in the northern part of the 
State; rarely escaped. Margins of low fields. Perennial. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Agrostis elliottiana Schult. Mant. 2:202. 1824. ELLIOT?’s BENT GRASS. 
Agrostis arachnoides Ell. Sk.1:134. 1817. Not Poir. 1810. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,647. Chap. F1.552. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:525. Scribner, 
Grass. Tenn. 78, t. 25, f. 101. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina to 
western Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to the Coast plain. Dry open pastures, roadsides. 
Lee County, Auburn (Baker §° Earle, 585). Cullman County, 800 feet. Mobile and 
Baldwin counties. April to May; frequent; annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘Collected near Orangeburg [S. C.] by I. 8. Bennett.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Agrostis hiemalis (Walt.) B.S. P. Prel. Gat. N. Y. 68. 1888. Roucu Harr GRass. 
Cornucopiae hiemalis Walt. Fl. Car. 74. 1788. 
Agrostis scabra Willd. Sp. i: 1.1:370. 1798. 
Trichodium laxiflorum Michx. F]. Bor. Am.1:42. 1803. 
Ell. Sk.1:99. Gray, Man. ed. 6,648. Chap. Fl. 551. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:525. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2:274.. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:77, t. 25, f. 99. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. From Nova Scotia, throughout Canada to Brit- 
ish Columbia and Alaska; south from New Eugland to Florida and the Gulf, west 
to Texus and California, 
ALABAMA: Over the State, in low sandy fields. Calhoun, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, 
and Mobile counties. April to May; common; annual. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Agrostis perennans (Walt.) Tuckerm. Am. Journ. Sci. 45:44. 1843. THIN-GRASS, 
Cornucopiae perennans Walt. Fl. Car. 74. 1788. : 
Trichodium perennans Ell. Sk.1:99. 1817. 
Ell.l.c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 648. Chap. Fl. 551. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:525. 
Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2: 76, t. 25, f. 97. 
Canailian zone to Carolinian area. Quebec, Ontario; New England to Wisconsin, 
south to Tennessee and South Carolina, 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountainregion. Dampshaded places. Frequent 
in the ‘‘rock honses” of the Warrior table-land. Winston County. Walker County, 
from 1,000 to 1,500 feet. Lauderdale County, river hills. JunetoOctober. Perennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. : 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Agrostis intermedia Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:76. 1894. UPLAND BENT Grass. 
- Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Eastern Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, and 
‘exas. 
Specimens of a more slender habit and others of a stouter growth are easily con- 
founded with Agrostis perennans on the one baud and Agrostis altissima on the other. 
A. intermedia differs from the former by the less spreading more elongated panicle of 
a pale color, perfectly smooth leaves, the empty glumes nearly equal, and the flower- 
