412 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry pine barrens. Mobile County. July; not frequent. 
Type locality of Elliott’s plant: ‘‘Collected by Dr. Baldwin on the confines of 
Georgia and Florida.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Scleria pauciflora glabra Chap. 1.532. 1860. Smootit Nur Rusu, 
Scleria pauciflora var. 6 Torr, Ann. Lyc. N. Y.3:378. 1836. 
Chap. FI. 532. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt, dry sands near the seashore. Baldwin County, Per- 
dido Bay. June; rare. ’ 
Type locality: ‘Sandy pine barrens, Florida.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Scleria caroliniana Willd. Sp. Pl. 4:318. 1804. CaRouina Nur Rusu. 
Scleria hirtella Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:168. 1803. (Fide Willd.) Not Sw. 1788. 
Ell. Sk. 2:560. Chap. Fl. 532. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Grassy pine barrens, springy places. Mobile 
County, Grand Bay, Bayou Sara. June, July; not infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in sylvis Carolinae.” 
Herb. Mohr. . 
Scleria gracilis Ell. Sk. 2:557. 1821-24. SLENDER Nutr Rusu. 
Ell. 8k.l.c. Chap. FI. 532. 
CuBa. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, along the Gulf coast to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Littoral region. Drifting sands on the seashore. Baldwin County, 
Perdido Bay. June, July; rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘Collected by Dr. Baldwin near St. Marys, Ga.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Scleria hirtella Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 19. 1788. Micuaun’s Nur Rusu. 
Scleria interrupta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:168. 1803. Not L. C. Rich. 
S. michauzit Chap. F1.532. 1860. 
Ell. Sk. 2:561. Chap. Fl.1.c.; ed.3,560. Griseb. FL. Brit. W. Ind. 579. 
West INDiEs, Mexico TO BraZIL, PERU, CHILE, CENTRAL AND SourH ArRIca, 
Louisianian area. Florida to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Damp grassy pine barrens. Mobile County, 
Grand Bay. July; infrequent. 
Type locality (Swartz, Fl. Ind. Oce.): ‘Hab. in mnontosis nemorosis Jamaicae.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mobr. 
SCLERIA BALDWINIL Torr., found at Pascagoula and in western Florida, is to be 
looked for on our coast. 
CAREX L. Sp. P].2:972. 1753.! 
Nearly 1,000 species described, of which more than half are recognized as valid, 
prevailing chiefly in cooler temperate regions. North America north of Mexico, 
about270, Eastern United States and adjacent parts of Canada, 133. Southern States 
(Carolinian and Louisianian areas), 85. Western continental region, west of eastern 
Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri to the Pacific slope and the adjacent parts of British 
North America, about 100 species. Alabama 61 species, a number doubtless to be 
increased on closer exploration by the addition of some of the species frequent in 
the adjacent States, but which have not yet been observed within its limits. A few 
not in the herbarium of the Geological Survey have been admitted on the authority 
of the late T. M. Peters, who gave to the investigation of this genus in northern 
Alabama his special attention. 
The species have been arranged according to L. H. Bailey’s Synopsis. 
Carex collinsii Nutt. Gen. 2:205. 1818. COLLINS’s SEDGE, 
Carex subulata Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 2:173. 1803. Not Gmel. or Schk. 
C, michaurit Dew. Am. Journ. Sci. 10: 273. 1826. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 592. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England (Rhode Island), southern New 
York, Pennsylvania, ind along the mountains to Georgia. 
\L. H. Bailey, jr., Preliminary Synopsis of North American Carices, Proc. Am. Acad., 
vol. 22, pp. 59 to 157, 1886. L. H. Bailey, jr., Types of various species of the genus 
Carex, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 1, pp. 1 to 86. 1890. 
