GRASSES. 381 
MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern, middle, and southwestern Tennessee 
to Texas and Arizona, and east along the Gulf coast to Alabama. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Autauga County, Prattville. 
Adventive with some other plants of the Southwest. Mobile County, bay shore at 
Cedar Point. July. Rare. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Mexico.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Stoud. Syn. Pl. Gram. 272. 1855. 
PurRrPLy ERAGROSTIS. 
Poa pectinacea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 69. 1803. 
P. hirsuta Ell; Sk.1:157, 1817. Not Michx. 1803. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 661. Chap. F1.564. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 :542. Scribner, 
Grass. Tenn. 2:98, t. 33, f. 131. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Coast of southern Massachusetts and in New 
York, west to Minnesota and Nebraska, and south to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: From the Tennessee Valley to the Coast plain. Common and most 
abundant on sandy pine barrens. Mobile County. August to October. Perennial, 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in arvis Illinoensibus.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis refracta (Muhl.) Scribner, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:49. 1894. 
MrEADow ERaGRosTIS. 
Poa refracta Muhl. Gram. 146, 1817. 
Lragrostris campestris Trin. Bull, Sci. Acad. St. Petersb. 1:70. 1836. 
E., pectinacea var. refracta Chap. F1. 564. 1860. 
Ell. Sk. 1:162. Gray, Man. ed. 6,661. Chap. Fl. 564. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:542. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina to 
Florida, west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Damp flat pine barrens. Mobile County. September; 
common. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis lugens Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2:505. 1829. 
Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:542. Vasey, Illust. Am. Grass. 1, pt.2: #. 47, 
Mexico, (?) BraziL, MONTEVIDEO. 
Louisianian area. Arizona and Texas to Alabama and Florida. ¢ 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile. July toSeptember, 1893-94. Annual 
or perennial. ? 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. ad Monte-Video et in confinibus Paraguayani, (Sellow.)” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) Link, Hort. Berol. 1:192. 1827. FRINGED ERAGROSTIS. 
Poa ciliaris L. Syst. ed. 10, 875. 1759. 
Megastachua ciliaris Beauv. Agrost. 74. 1812. 
Chap. F1.563. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 532. 
TROPICAL REGIONS OF THE OLD AND NEw WORLDS. ARABIA, AFRICA, GALAPA- 
Gos, WEST INpIES TO BRAZIL. ; aie 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Sandy fields, waste places. Mobile County. Septem- 
berand October; frequent. Notremote from dwellings. Probably naturalized from 
the tropics. Annual. 
Type locality: Jamaica? 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Eragrostis glomerata (Walt.) L. H. Dewey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:543. 1894. 
DENSELY SPIKED ERAGROSTIS. 
Poa glomeraia Walt. Fl. Car, 80. 1788. 
P, conferta EN. Sk. 1: 158. 1817. 
Eragrostis conferta Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. 6, 1: 409. 1831. 
Ell. Sk.1.¢c. Chap. Fl. 563. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 533. Coulter, Contr. Nat. 
Herb. 2 :543. 
West INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL. ; 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 
