402 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Stenophyllus capillaris coarctatus (Ell.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:30. 1894. 
CLOSE-FLOWERED STENOPHYLLUS. 
Scirpus coarctatus Ell. Sk. 1:83. 1816. 
Isolepsis coarctatus Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y.3: 352, 1836. 
Ell. Sk.1:83. Chap. F1.523. : ; oa 
Louisianian area. Coast of South Carolina to Florida, and west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry pine ridges, sandy fieids. Mobile County, 
Cottage Hill. September; infrequent. Annual. : 
Type locality: ‘‘Grows in very dry sandy soils. Around Beaufort, common.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
SCIRPUS L. Sp. Pl.1:47. 1753.! 
About 250 species; cosmopolitan from the subarctic to tropical zones. 
Scirpus nanus Spreng. Pugill.1:4, 1815. Dwarr SALT-waTER RusH. 
Scirpus parvulus Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2:124. 1817. 
S. capillaceus Ell. Sk. 1:75. 1816. 
Eleocharis pygmaea ‘Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 313. 1836. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 576. Chap. Fl. 518. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 471. 
SEACOAST OF EUROPE, SOUTH AFRICA. 
Alleghenian to Lonisianian area. New Brunswick, Quebec, Vancouver Island, 
south to Florida, Texas, and California? 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Muddy banks occasionally overflowed by salt water. 
Danphin Island. Baldwin County, Perdido Bay. Perennial. 
Type locality (Spreng. Syst.): ‘‘Ad lacum Koelmensem flor. halens.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Scirpus carinatus (Hook. & Arn.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:392. 1868. Not Smith, 
Engl. Fl. 1:60. 1824. K&eELED CLUB-RUSH. 
Isolepis carinata Hook. & Arn.; Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y.3:349. 1836. 
Chap. Fl. Suppl. 60. Wats. Bot. Calif.2:217. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 471. 
Louisianian area, Mississippi to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Credited to the State by Britton. Coast plain? 
Type locality: ‘‘Near New Orleans, 7. Drummond!; on the Arkansas River, Nuttall!” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Scirpus cubensis Poepp. & Kunth in Kunth, Enum. 2:172. 1837. 
CuRAN CLUB-RUSH. 
Scirpus ablepharus Griseb. Cat. Pl, Cub. 240. 1866. 
Oxycaryum schomburkianum Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2, pt. 1:90. 1842. 
Chap. FI. Suppl. 660; ed. 3, 548. 
Cuba, SourH America, AFRICA. 
Louisianian area. Louisiana. i 
ALABAMA: Coastregion. Openswamps. Mobile County, estuary of Mobile River. 
Three-mile Creek, on floating rotting timber. August; rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Cuba in paludibus. (Poeppig legit.)” 
Herb. Geol, Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
Scirpus debilis Pursh, F]. Am. Sept.1:55. 1814. WEAK CLUB-RUSH. 
Ell. Sk.1:79, Gray, Man. ed. 6,580. Chap. FI. 519. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England, west to Michigan, Minnesota, 
and Nebraska, south to South Carolina and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Without specific locality, Britt. & Brown, lI. Fl.1:264. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘In wet meadows: Pennsylvania.” 
Scirpus americanus Pers. Syn. 1:68. 1805. THREE-EDGED CLUB-RUSH. 
Scirpus triqueter Michx. F1, Bor. Am. 1:30. 1803. Not L. 
S. pungens Vahl, Enum. 2:255. 1806. 
Ell. Sk. 1:80. Gray, Man. ed. 6,579. Chap. F1.519. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2:2 - 
ter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:471. : : Serer mnr cre aces 
Mexico, SouTH AMERICA. 
Throughout North America, on beaches, and borders fresh and sali 2 
the Arctic regions to the Gulf. ; ia aa 
'N. L. Britton, list of species of the genera Scirpus and Rynchos Onn ine ri 
in North America, Trans. N.Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, Dad to 93. “1892 . oe 
