850 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
14 inches long, long-exserted, oval, the branches ascending, spikelets numerous, 
small, obovate. 
This is regarded by W. W. Ashe as P. ensifolium Bald.' Collected at Chapel 
Hill, N.C, 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Georgia and Florida, 
ALABAMA: Coast plain, Low pine barrens in sandy loam. Mobile County, Sum- 
merville, June, 1899. Infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘In the low pine land at Eustis, Lake County, Florida.” (Nash, 
1894, No. 925.) 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum trifolium Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26:580. 1899. 
A cespitose, smoothish, slender perennial, the mostly simple culm & to 16 inches 
high; stem leaves usually 3, the uppermost a little below the panicle, firm, erect, 
narrowly lanceolate, with the margins cartilaginous-thickened, serrulate, from 4 to 2 
inches long; basal leaves numerous, about 2 inches long; panicle more or less exserted, 
broadly ovate, 1 to 2 inches long, withslender ascending branches, spikelets elliptical, 
densely pubescent. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to western Florida. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills to Coast plain. Damp woods. Lee County, Auburn 
(Baker § Farle). Central Alabama (Buekley). Mobile County. April; not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Ocmulgee River swamp, below Macon, Ga.” (Dr. J. Wh. Small, 
1895. ) 
Related to P.albo-marginatum, but distinguished by the thinner leaves without 
white margins and the more slender eulm. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum lucidum Ashe, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Soc. 15:47. 1898. 
A cespitose, slender, glabrous perennial, the weak culms reclining; sheaths ciliate 
at the margin; leavas spreading, 1 inch or less long, narrowly lanceolate, very acute, 
rather distant; panicle more or less exserted, 14 inches long, with spreading branches; 
spikelets elliptic, acute. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina, 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Damp woods. Mobile County. May; infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina.” (JV. IV. Ashe, 1898.) 
Panicum curtifolium Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26:569. 1899, 
A tufted glabrous perennial, with weak culms 8 to 12 inches high, finally mueh 
branched; sheaths usually about one-third as long as the internodes, sparsely pubes- 
cent; stem leaves 3 or 4, widely spreading, short, scarcely over & lines long, the basal 
leaves 1} to 2 inches long; panicle considerably exserted, broadly ovate, its slightly 
hispid branches widely spreading; spikelets elliptic, glabrous. 
Louisianian area, Western Florida (?) to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt. Coast plain. Boggy borders of pine-barren streams, 
Tuscaloosa County (Dr. lb. A. Smith). Mobile County (7. H. Kearney, July, 1899), 
Type locality: “ Ocean Springs, Miss.” (S. MW. Tracy, 1898.) 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum paucipilum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26:573. 1899. 
A tufted, almost glabrous, tall perennial with the sparing]y branched culm from 2 
to 35 feet high; stem leaves 5 to &, erect, firm, sometimes minutely puberulent on 
the lower surface, usually with a few hair-bearing papillae at the base, from 2} to 
34 inches long and 3 to 5 lines wide; panicle exserted, rather dense, oblong, from 
2 to 4 inches long, its branches erect; spikelets small, numerous, oval, pubescent, 
Carolinian and Lonisianian areas, Coast of New Jersey. Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Mobile County. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Wildwood, N.J.”) (2. P. Bicknell, May 30, 1897.) 
Panicum longipedunculatum Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:53, t. /6,f. 62. 1894, 
A small pubescent somewhat clustered pale-green perennial, the slender culms 
6 to 10 inches high, with a few distant erect-spreading lanceolate leaves, nar- 
rowed to the roundish base, 2 to 3 lines wide, soft-pubescent on both sides and ciliate 
on the margin; basal leaves numerous, pubescent and ciliate; panicle about 2 inches 
long, oval, the axis and branchlets villous-pubescent, the fascicled, slender branches 
spreading; spikelets small, } line long, obtuse. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, North Carolina (Roanoke Island) to 
Florida. 
' Journ. Elisha Mitch. Soc., Vol. 15, p. 46, 
