400 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA, 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Warrior table-land to Central Pine belt. Marshy 
places. Lauderdale County, in the barrens. Cullman County. Tuscaloosa County 
(E, A, Smith). July;‘not rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in America boreali.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
DICHROMENA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:37. 1803. 
Over a dozen species. Tropical and subtropical America. Perennial. 
Dichromena colorata (L.) A. 8S. Hitchcock, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4:141. 1893. 
NAaRROW-LEAF DICHROMENA, 
Schoenus coloratus L. Sp. Pl.1:43. 1753. 
Scirpus cephalotes Walt. Fl. Car. 71. 1788. 
Dichromena leucocephala Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:37. 1803. 
Ell. Sk.1:89. Gray, Man, ed. 6,577. Chap. Fl. 530. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2: 469. 
BERMUDA, Wrst INDIES, SOUTHERN MEXICO TO BRAZIL, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New Jersey to Florida, and west to 
Texas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Coast plain. Dampopen grassy 
places. Jackson County, Scottsboro (£. A. Smith). Cullman, Tuscaloosa, and Mobile 
counties. July, August; frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Jamaica, Bahama.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mobr. 
Dichromena latifolia Baldw.; Ell. Sk. 1:90. 1817. BRoav-LEaAF DICHROMENA. 
Gray, Man. ed.6,577. Chap. F1.530. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 469. 
Louisianian area. Southern Virginia, North Carolina to Florida, and west to 
eastern Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coastplain. Lower Pineregion. Openswamps. Washington County, 
Yellowpine. Mobile County. July to August; common. 
Type locality: ‘‘McIntosh County, Ga., and in Florida.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
FIMBRISTYLIS Vahl, Enum. 2: 285. 1806. 
Fimbristylis spadicea (L.) Vahl, Enum. 2:294. 1806. Brown CLuB-RUSH. 
Scirpus spadiceus L. Sp. P1.1:51. 1753. 
Chap. F1.521, in part. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 372. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:470. 
WEsT INDIES, MEXICO, SOUTH TO BRAZIL. 
Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt, brackish and salt marshes. Mobile and Baldwin coun- 
ties. July to September. Perennial. 
In some localities forming a large part of the glumaceous vegetation of the brack- 
ish and salt marshes. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Jamaicae fluviis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mokr. 
Fimbristylis puberula (Michx.) Vahl, Enum. 2: 289. 1806. 
PUBERULENT CLUB RUSH. 
Scirpus puberulus Michx. F1. Bor. Ain.1:31. 1803. 
S. ferrugineus Ell. Sk.1:85. 1816. 
Fimbristylis spadicea var. puberula Chap. F1. 522. 
Ell.e. Chap.l.c. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 572. 
From SOUTHEASTERN NoRTH AMERICA TO ARGENTINA. 
Louisianian area. Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain and Littoral region. Low flat pine barrens and salt 
marshes. Mobile County, Fowl River Station, flat pine woods in close damp soil. 
Baldwin County, salt marshes overflowed by the tide. April to July; frequent. 
Perennial. 
Widely differing in the habit of growth and distribution, this plant can not be 
connected with the last. Growing under the most varying conditions of soil, in 
the salty marshes on the seashore as well as in the dry pine barrens of the coast 
region farther inland, it is found without the slightest deviation in its characters, 
Type locality: ‘ lab.in Carolina et Georgia,” 
\ Herb.Geol,Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
