428 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the Central and Coast Pine belts. Springy places in woods. 
Lee County, Auburn (Baker § Earle), Clarke, Monroe, and Washington counties, 
July; not rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Xyris iridifolia Chap. F'1.501. 1860. SwWoRD-LEAF YELLOW-EYED GRASS. 
Chap. Fl.l.c. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 442. 
Louisianian area. Florida, west to southeastern Texas (Brazos River). 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills, Central Prairie region to Coast 
plain. Low wet pine barrens, borderswamps. Lee County, Auburn ( Baker §- Hare). 
Wilcox County (S. B. Buckley). Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County. 
July. 
Type locality: ‘‘Shallow ponds, Apalachicola, Fla.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Xyris fimbriata El].8k.1:52. 1816. FRINGED YELLOW-EYED GRASS. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,573. Chap. F1.501. 
Carolinian and Louisianian area. Southern New Jersey, Virginia, South Carolina 
to Florida, west to Mississippi and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region, Coast plain. Low wetpine barrens. Mobile County, 
Kelly’s pond, Springhill. September; not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Sent from Georgia by Dr. Baldwin.” 
Herb. Mohr. 
Xyris torta Smith in Rees,Cycl. no.11. 1819 - 
Xyris conocephala Sauv. Fl. Cub. 159. 1868. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,537. Chap. F1.537. 
Cusa. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to Texas, Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills. Central Pine belt to the coast. 
Lee County, Auburn (Bater § Earle), Washington and Mobile counties. June; 
common. 
Type locality: ‘‘Gathered in North America by Kalm.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Xyris torta pallescens var. noy. PALE TWISTED XYRIS. 
Slender, 8 to 10 inches high, glaucous, leaves narrow, linear, ,; inch wide, very 
tortuous, greenish-brown at the base; flowering heads more conical and acute than 
in the type, greenish, flowers white. 
Louisianian area. Western Florida. 
AvaBaMA: Littoral belt. Drifting sands, shore of Perdido Bay. Mobile County, 
Dauphin Island. June; infrequent. 
Type locality: First observed on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. July 4, 1874. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Xyris baldwiniana Schult. Mant.1:351. 1822. BaLpwin’s YELLOW-EYED Grass. 
Xyris juncea Bald,; Ell. Sk.1:53. 1816. Not R. Br. 
NV. tenuifolia Chap. F1. 502. 1860. 
X. setacea Chap. Suppl. 658. 1880. 
El. Sk.1.c. Chap. F1.502, Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2: 442. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, and west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Borders of pine-barren ponds. Washington 
County, Fairfort. Mobile County, Chastangs Bluff. September; not rare. 
aoe “Grows in damp situations in the pine barrens near St. Mary’s 
a.]. 
Herb. Geol Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
ERIOCAULACEAE, Pipewort Family. 
ERIOCAULON L. Sp. Pl. 1:87. 1753. 
About 110 species, perennials, of subtropical and tropical regions of Asia, Africa, 
and Australia, South and North America. North America 3, two of them south- 
eastern, one extending north to New England and to southwestern Europe. 
Eriocaulon decangulare L. Sp. Pl. 1:87. 1753. TEN-ANGLED PIPEWoRT. 
e ie a Gray, Man. ed. 6, 567. Chap. Fl. 503. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
