GRASSES. 353 
Panicum pubescens Lam. Encycl. 4:748. 1797. Hairy PANICcUM. 
Scribner, Grass, Tenn. 2:52, t. 25, f. 58. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Tennessee, Florida, and Mis- 
sissippi (?). 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry open woods, Cullman County. 
Mobile County, Citronelle. Frequent; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘ Basse-Caroline.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum lanuginosum Ell. 8k. 1:123. 1817. WOOLLY-STEMMED PANICUM, 
Ell.l.c. Chap. FI. ed. 3, 586. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Copses, shady banks. Cullman 
County. Chambers County (Baker §° Earle). Mobile County, Whistler, Springhill. 
April, May; not common; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in Georgia. Sent to me by Dr. Baldwin.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum villosissimum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 23:149. 1896. 
A rather stout, very hairy perennial, more or less tufted from a strong rootstock, 
the rigid culms erect or ascending, 16 to 24 inches high, villous with long, ascending 
hairs, barbed above the glabrous nodes; sheaths villous; stem leaves linear-lanceolate, 
24 to 4 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, rounded at the base, erect-spreading, with 
spreading bairs; panicle 2} to 3} inches long, equally broad, the numerous slender 
branchlets tascicled; spikelets obovate, about 1 line long on slender pedicels. 
Louisianian area, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to eastern Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt. Dry open woods. Mobile County, Springhill, May, 
June; not infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Ocmulgee River swamp, below Macon [Georgia].” (Dr. J. K. 
Small. ) 
Panicum sphaerocarpon Ell. Sk.1:125. 1817. ROUND-FRUITED PANICUM. 
Chap. Fl. 667, Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:32. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:506. 
Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:50, ¢. 13, f. 51, 52. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to eastern Texas, 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Grassy swales and damp thickets. 
Cullman County, 900 feet altitude. Dallas County, Marion Junction. Washington 
County, Yellowpine. May, June; not infrequent; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in Georgia. Dr. Baldwin.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum polyanthes Schult. Mant. 2: 257, 1824. SMALL-FRUITED PANICUM. 
Panicum microcarpon Muhl, Gram. 111. 1817. Not Ell. 1817. 
P, multiflorum Ell. Sk. 1:122. 1817. Not Poir. 1816. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 633, Chap. Fl. 576. Vasey, Contr. Nat, Herb. 3:32. Coulter, 
Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:506. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2: 50, t. 74, f. 53, 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New York to Michigan, Missouri, and Tennessee, 
and from New Jersey to Florida and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Overthe State. Damp grassy open places. May; frequent; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in shaded, dry soils [South Carolina and Georgia].” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum scoparium Lam. Encycl. 4: 744. 1797. 
Panicum scoparium var. major Vasey, Contr, Nat. Herb. 3:31. 
P. scoparium genuinum Seribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:48. 1894, 
Ell. 8k.1:119. Gray, Man. ed. 6,632. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 2:507, 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Ontario west to British Columbia and Oregon; 
New England west to Nebraska and south to Florida, thence to Texasand Arkansas, 
ALABAMA: All over the State, Shaded grassy banks, dry woods, copses. Cullman 
and Tuscaloosa counties. Washington County, Yellowpine. MobileCounty. April 
to June; frequent; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Basse Caroline.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum scribnerianum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22:421. 1895. 
SCRIBNER’S PANICUM, 
Panicum scoparium minor Scribner, Bull. Univ. Tenn. 7:48. 1894. Not P. capillare 
minus Muhl, 1817. 
Panicum scoparium Wats, & Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 632. 1890, Not Lam. 1797. 
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