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40. Panicum stenodes Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 547. 1864. 
Low, wet pine woods, El Salado, August, Wright 3871; Herradura, Hitchcock in 1906, 
Baker & Abarca HC 4192, Baker HC 2956, Habana, Leon 567; Isle of Pines, Curtiss in 
1904 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
The Grisebach specimen is labeled ‘‘Sandy ground in the Cienaga, Hanabana, 
May 17,” no. 192. Two other specimens, 284 and 285, included by Grisebach in this 
cover, are P. distantiflorum. PP. caricoides Nees@ differs in having larger spikelets 
(2 mm. long) with bristles at apex of pedicel, and flat blades, villous on upper sur- 
face, as shown by the type in the Munich Herbarium and a portion in the Trinius 
Herbarium. 
41. Panicum strigosum Muhl.; Ell. Bot. S.C. & Ga. 1: 126. 1816. 
Savannas around base of palms, Daganiguas, September, Wright 3875; El Guama, 
Palmer & Riley 213. 
» Wright’s 3875 in the National Herbarium is P. polycaulon. 
42. Panicum swartzianum Hitche. Contr, Nat. Herb. 12: 140. 1908. 
Panicum lanatum Sw. Prod. 24. 1788, not Rottb. 1776. 
Santiago de Cuba, Hamilion 218 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
43, Panicum tenerum Beyrich; Trin. Mem. Acad. Petersb. V1. 3: 341. 1835. 
In dense bunches in dried-up ponds, Pinar del Rio, December, Wright 188; Her- 
radura, Baker & Dimmock HC 4837, Hitchcock in 1906, Tracy 9080; ‘a tall branching 
grass in deepish water of lagunas, Pinar del Rio, Sept.,’’ Wright 3870 in National 
Herbarium. 
Wright’s 188 is mixed with P. distantiflorum and has, in addition to the label 
quoted, another, ‘‘Savannas of Guamaroca, July 28.’’ Wright’s 3870 is also mixed 
with P. distantiflorum. The Florida specimens of P, tenerum have been going under 
the name of P. stenodes. Wright’s 3860 in the Gray Herbarium is P. tenerwm. 
44, Panicum tenue Muhl. Gram. 118. 1817. 
Panicum albomarginatum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 40. 1897. 
Sandy pine woods, Pinar del Rio, September, Wright 3463 in part; Herradura, 
Shafer 560, Baker HC 2967, 2973, 2977, Hitchcock in 1906; Pinar del Rio, Shafer 320 
in part; Isle of Pines, Taylor 32. 
For other specimens distributed as Wright 3463, see P. caerulescens, P. leucothriz, 
and P. wrightianum. 
45, Panicum tricanthum Nees, Agrost. Bras. 210. 1829. 
Wright 753; Habana, Curtiss 598; Vento, Leon 557. 
No. 753 of Wright in the National Herbarium is labeled ‘‘In large, loose bunches 
beside the river Agabama Guinia, Trinidad, May 5.’’ The specimen in the Grise- 
bach Herbarium is from western Cuba, 1863, and is numbered ‘‘948=753."’ In 
the Gray Herbarium there are two specimens, ‘‘Villa Clara, Macagua, Jan. 21,” 
1860-64, and ‘‘Santa Isabel, along rivulets,’’ eastern Cuba, in 1856-57. 
46. Panicum trichoides Sw. Prod. 24. 1788. 
Prope villam Monte Verde dictam, Cuba Orientali, 1859, Wright 1538, in Gray 
Herbarium; Habana, Curtiss 714, Britton d& Wilson 510; Guanabacoa, Leon 206. 
A weed in cultivated soil. P. brevifolium 1.., to which our species has been 
referred, is from India (P. ovalifolium Poir. as described in Hooker’s Flora of British 
India). 
47. Panicum virgatum cubense Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 233. 1866. 
Panicum virgatum obtusum Wood, Bot. & Flor. 392. 1874. 
Panicum virgatum breviramosum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club 28: 150, 1896. 
@ Trin. Gram. Pan. 149. 1826. 
