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pedicels usually with a few long hairs at the summit; spikelets 2.2 to 2.8 mm. long, 
0.8 to 1 mm. wide, narrowly ovate, pointed; first glume clasping, half as long as the 
spikelet or more, l-nerved, glabrous or 
obscurely strigose toward the summit; 
second glume and sterile lemma equal, 
exceeding the fruit, 5 to 7-nerved, 
glabrous; fruit 1.7 to 1.8 mm, long, 
about 0.8 mm. wide. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Margins of swamps and wet places 
in flatwoods and pine barrens near 
the coast, Georgia to Florida and west 
Texas; also in the Bahamas and 
‘ wes ast the Fic. 90.—Distribution of P. tenerum. 
uba. 
Georaia: Cobb, Harper 1045; Ruskin, Ricker 908. 
Fioripa: Jacksonville, Curtiss 3579 in part, 4035, 5083; Kearney 139; Baldwin, 
Combs 61, Nash 2249; De Funiak Springs, Combs 476; Apalachicola, Chapman; 
Pensacola, Combs 530; Avondale, Comos 487; Jupiter, Curtiss 5576C; Chipley, 
Combs 574, 619; Grasmere, Combs 1112; Tampa, Garber in 1877; Braidentown, 
Combs 1266; Myers, Chase 4187, Hitchcock Lee Co. Pl. 492; without locality, 
Chapman, Garber in 1878, Simpson in 1889. 
ALABAMA: Mobile, Aearney 50 in part, Mohr in 1884, 1893, and 1894, 
Mississippi: Ocean Springs, Kearney 293, Tracy 26; Horn Island, Tracy in 1898. 
Louisiana; Without locality, Hale (Gray Herb.). 
Texas: Nona, Nealley in 1892; without locality, Nealley in 1884. 
Bauamas: Andros, Brace 7019, 7132 (both in Field Mus. Herb.). 
CusBa: Pinar del Rio, Wright 3870 in part; Herradura, Hitchcock 154, Tracy 9080. 
49. Panicum stenodes Griseb. 
Panicum stenodes Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 547. 1864. “Han. Jamaica!, Pd. [Purdie], 
in savannahs, Manchester.’’ The type specimen, beariny data as published, is in 
the Kew Herbarium. 
Panicum hians Spruce; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 548. 1864, not Ell. 1816. This 
name is given as a synonym of P. stenodes and credited to ‘‘P/. Spruce.’’ We have 
not seen Spruce’s specimen and the name is here referred to P. 
stenodes on the authority of Grisebach. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Plants in small tufts, 25 to 50cm. high, glabrous throughout; 
culms erect or reclining, very slender and wiry, producing 
Fic. 91.—P. stenodes. from the middle nodes slender branches about equaling the 
From Wright’s no. 192 main culm, both this and the branches bearing small, solitary 
MO sebaen Herba- or fascicled panicles from the upper nodes; sheaths very short, 
, about | to 2cm. long; blades 1 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 2 mm. wide, 
he upper often reduced to mere points, erect, firm, involute; panicles short-exserted, 
the lateral often partly included, 1 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 2 mm. wide, subracemose; 
spikelets 1.4 to 1.6 mm. long, about 0.7 mm. wide, elliptic, rather turgid; first glume 
about half the length of the spikelet, blunt, nerveless or l-nerved; second glume 
and sterile lemma equal, scarcely exceeding the fruit, 5-nerved; fruit 1.3 mm, 
long, 0.6 mm. wide. ‘ 
This species is distinguished from 7. tenerum by its more slender culms, numerous 
branches, and smaller panicles of smaller spikelets. 
