374 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Central Pine belt. Most abundant from the prairie 
to the coast region. In light loamy and heavy alluvial soils. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Europa australi.” 
Economic uses: Valuable pasture grass. 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SPARTINA Schreb. Gen. 43. 1789. 
(TRacuynotia Michx. FI. Bor. Am. 1:63. 1803.) 
Seven species. Coarse, perennial marsh srasses of the warmer temperate zone. 
North America, about 6 species. 
Spartina stricta maritima (Walt.) Scribner, Mem. Torr. Club, 45. 1894. 
SaL_tT Marsu Grass, 
Dactylis maritima Walt. F1. Car. 77. 1788. 
Spartina glabra Muhl. Gram. 54. 1817. 
EIL 8k. 1:95. Gray, Man. ed. 6,627. Chap. F1.556. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 
527. 
Carolinian area. Coast of New York and New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas. 
AvaBaMa: Coast plain. River marshes. Mobile County, estuary of Mobile 
River; Bayou Labatre, salt marshes. July to October; rare. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Spartina patens (Ait.) Muhl. Gram. 55. 1817. SaLt RusH Grass. 
Dactylis patens Ait. Hort. Kew. 1:104. 1789. 
Trachynotia juncea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 64. 1803. 
Spartina juncea Ell. Sk. 1:94. 1817. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,627. Chap. F1.556. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 :527. 
Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisianian areas. Coast of southern New England, 
New York to Florida, west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Deep salt marshes. Mobile and Baldwin counties; 
abundant, forming the chief growth of the saline marshes. July to August. 
Type locality not ascertained. Muhlenberg’s locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Spartina polystachya (Michx.) Ell. 8k.1:95, 1817. SALT REED GRASS. 
Trachynotia polystachya Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:64. 1803. 
Gray, Man. ed.6,62. Chap. Fl 556. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England, coastof New York to 
Florida, west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain and Littoral belt. In fresh, brackish, and salt marshes, 
Mobile County. Baldwin County, Bon Secour, salt marshes. July; common. 
Type locality: ‘“ Hab. in inundatis maritimis, a Nova Anglia ad Floridam.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CAMPULOSUS Desv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 2:189. 1810. 
(CTENIUM Panzer, Denkschr. Acad. Muench. 1813, 288, ¢. 73. 1814.) 
(Monocera Ell. Sk.1:176. 1817.) 
Seven species, warmer regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. South and North 
America, 4; southeastern United States, 1 species. 
Campulosus aromaticus (Walt.) Scribner, Mem. Bull. Torr. Club, 5:45. 1894. 
TOOTHACHE GRass. 
Aegilops aromatica Walt. Fl. Car. 249. 1788. 
Chloris monostachya Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 1:59. 1803. 
Monocera aromatica Ell. Sk.1:177. 1817. 
Ctenium americanum Spreng. Syst.1:274. 1825. 
EL Sk.l.c. Gray, Man. ed. 6,654. Chap. FI. 558. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia to North Carolina; Florida 
west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion. Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Sterile, dry,sandy, 
or damp and exsiccated soil. Sparingly in the open pine woods of a purely sandy 
soil in the Metamorphic hills. Lee County, Goldhill, about 800 feet. Abundant in 
the flat poor pine barrens along the coast. July to September. Perennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
