HITCHCOCK AND CHASE—NORTH AMERICAN PANICUM. 207 
DISTRIBUTION, 
Low pine barrens and swamps of the Coastal Plain, North Carolina to Florida and 
Louisiana. 
Nort Carorina: Roanoke Island, Chase 3213, 3228, 3233; Wards Mill, Chase 
3175, 3179; Wilmington, Chase 3136, 3145, 3150, Hitchcock 372. 
Soutn CaRouina: Orangeburg, Hitchcock 16; Hartsville, Coker in 1908. 
Georaotia: Charlton County, Harper 
1575; Sumter County, Harper 
459; Bullock, Harper 839; 
Stone Mountain, Hitchcock 375. 
Fioripa: Jacksonville, Curtiss 
4033; Baldwin, Hitchcock 988, 
1005; Chipley, Combs 569; 
Lake City, Combs 115; Milton, 
Chase 4808; Apalachicola, 
Chapman; Bay Head, Combs 
652; Santa Rosa, Combs 488, 
Tracy 8398, 8423; Warrington, 
Tracy 8413; Braidentown, 
Mitcheock 957, 958; Seminole, Tracy 7193 in part; Myers, Chase 4141, 4172, 
4188, Hitcheock 875, 881, Lee Co. Pl. 473. 
Mississrrri: Biloxi, Chase 4366, Iitchcock 1068; Ocean Springs, Kearney 288 in part, 
300 in part; Petit Bois Island, Tracy in 1898. 
Louisiana: Abita Springs, Cocks 422. 
Fig, 212,—Distribution of P. longiligulatum. 
120. Panicum wrightianum Scribn. 
Panicum strictum Bosc; Roem, & Schult. Syst. Ver. 2: 447. 1817, not R. Br. 1810. 
This is described in a note under P. barbulatum Michx., from a specimen collected 
by Bosc in ‘America sept.” and received from him under this name. ‘The type, 
in the Munich Herbarium, is marked ‘‘Panicum strictum Bose. Carolina, comm. 
Bosc.’’ Two duplicates of it are in the Willdenow Herbarium, one bearing a new 
name bestowed by Panzer, but we can not find that this name has been published, 
Panicum minutulum Desv. Opusc. 87. 1833, not Gaud. 1826. The type, in the 
Desvaux Herbarium, consists of two plants beginning to branch. 
Panicum wrightianum Scribn. U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 11:44. /. 4. 1898. 
“Cuba (No. 3463, C. Wright, 1865).’’ The type, in the National Herbarium, is the 
early autumnal form and is the large plant figured with the original description. 
Trinius described@ this species under the name “Panicum nodiflorum La M.,” 
citing P. strictum Bosc as a synonym. The specimen in the 
Trinius Herbarium is marked ‘Carolina, Bosc. sub nom. P. 
strictum Bosc.”’ 
DESCRIPTION. 
a Vernal culms weak and slender, ascending from a decumbent 
Bia. 213.—P. wright® dose. or rarely at first erect, 15 to 40 cm., or rarely 60 cm. high, 
anum. From type . . : 
specimen. minutely puberulent; sheaths striate, shorter than the inter- 
nodes, glabrous, except the summit and ciliate margin, or puber- 
ulent; ligules 2 to 3 mm. long; blades spreading, 2 to 4 cm. long, 3 to 5 or rarely 6 
mm. wide, glabrous or puberulent beneath and minutely pilose above; panicles 
oblong-ovate, 3 to 6 cm. long, one-third to half as wide, the branches ascending, 
