382 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Coast plain. Damp grassy places, banks of 
streams. Mobile County. Autauga County, Prattville. July to August; not rare, 
Annual. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bragrostis capillaris (L.) Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2:505. 1829. Lace GRass. 
Poa capillaris L. Sp. Pl. 1:68. 1753. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,661. Chap. F1.564. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:542. 
Mexico, BRAZIL. ; 
Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisianian areas. New York and Pennsylvania, west 
to Iowa, Missouri, and Tennessee; south to Florida, and west to Texas and Arkansas, 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to the Coast Plain. Dry sandy hills, borders of fields 
and roadsides. Autauga County, Prattville (Z. d. Smith). Monroe County, Clai- 
borne. Clarke County, Thomasville. Mobile and Baldwin counties. June, July; 
frequent. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Virginia, Canada, D. Kalm.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Bragrostis hirsuta (Michx.) Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 23:98. 1896. 
RouGH-HAIRY ERAGROSTIS, 
Poa hirsuta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 68. 1803. 
Louisianian area. Carolina to Florida. 
A stonter and larger plant than the above, with which it has been confounded, 3 
feet and over high, leaves longer than the culm, with sheaths hairy; panicle ample, 
wide-spreading; spikelets scattered, long-pedicellate, 4 to 5 flowered. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Coast plain. Waste places, roadsides. Mobile 
County, near dwellings. Autauga County, Prattville (Z. 4. Smith). September to 
November. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Carolina inferiore.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
MELICA L. Sp. Pl. 1:66. 1753. 
Over 30 species, perennials, in the temperate zones of the Old World and Amer- 
ica. North America, 12. 
Melica mutica Walt. Fl. Car. 78, 1788. Honey Grass. 
Melica glabra Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 1:62. 1803. In part. 
Melica mutica var. glabra Gray, Man. ed. 5, 626. 1867. 
Ell. Sk. 1:154. Gray, Man. ed. 6,662. Chap. Fl. 560. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:545. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Ohio Valley from West Virginia to Missouri 
and Arkansas, south to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Rich open woods and copses. Lee 
County, Auburn (Underwood §: Earle), Tuscaloosa County. Baldwin County, Point 
Clear. 
Type locality : South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
UNIOLA L. Sp. P1.1:71. 1753. 
Five species, perennials; eastern North America, 4. 
Uniola paniculata L. Sp. Pl. 1:71. 1753. Sea OaTs. 
Uniola maritima Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:71. 1803. 7 
Ell. Sk. 1:166. Gray, Man. ed. 6,662. Chap. Fl. 566. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Ierb. 
2:545. 
SourHERN MEXICO, PANAMA, ECUADOR. 
Louisianian area. Southern Virginia and North Carolina to Florida, thence west 
to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands (dunes) on the seashore. Mobile and 
Baldwin counties. July, August. Frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Crvolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Uniola latifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1:70. 1803. BROAD-LEAF SPIKE-GRASS. 
Ell. Sk.1:167. Gray, Man. ed. 6,663. Chap. Fl. 566. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:545. 
