244 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Sand barrens, Massachusetts to South Carolina. 
Massacuuserts: Andover, Blake in 1882; Nantucket, Bicknell in 1907 and 1908. 
Connecticut: East Lyme, Graves in 1903 (Bissell Herb.). 
New Yor: Hempstead, Bicknell 
in 1903 and 1906. 
New Jersey: Wildwood, Bicknell 
in 1897, Chase 3517; Wildwood 
Junction, Chase 3523; ‘Toms 
River, Bicknellin 1900; Forked 
River, Chase 3583,3595; Atsion, 
Chase 3538; Lakehurst, Chase 
3574; Somers Point, Canby 51n 
1902; Tuckerton, Chase 3603. 
Marytanp: Chesapeake Beach, 
Hitchcock 1617; Suitland, Steele Fic. 262.—Distribution of P. addisonii. 
in 1899. 
Virarnia: Virginia Beach, Hitchcock 556 (Hitchcock Herb.). 
Norra Carouina: Wilmington, Chase 3166, 4580; Hitchcock 335, 399. 
SourH CAROLINA: Orangeburg, Hitchcock 557. 
145. Panicum wilmingtonense Ashe. 
Panicum wilmingtonense Ashe, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Soc. 16: 86. 1900. “The 
type material collected in May, 1899, on the sand hills near Wilmington, N. C., is 
preserved in my herbarium.”” The type, in Ashe’s herbarium, is labeled, “Shady 
slopes on the sand hills one mile to north of Wilmington, May 17, 1899. W. W. Ashe, 
Collector.’ The plants are the vernal form with some autumnal culms of the preced- 
ing season attached. . 
Panicum alabamense Ashe, N. C. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 175: 116. 1900, not Trin. 
1854. ‘Auburn, Ala., May 7, 1898. Number 1530, Alabama Biological Survey.” 
The type, in Ashe’s herbarium, is a tuft of young vernal culms, the panicles only 
partly exserted. Mounted on the sheet with this is 
aspecimen of P. lucidum. Ashe’s description refers 
to the latter only in so far as the spikelets are said 
to be glabrous. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Vernal form bluish green; culms solitary in small 
Fi. 263-—-P. wilmingtonense. From tufts; slender, erect from an ascending base 20 to 
type specimen. 40 em. high, pilose with soft, ascending hairs, the 
nodes pubescent with short, reflexed hairs; sheaths 
pubescent like the culms, densely villous-ciliate at the summit; blades rather stiff, 
ascending, 4 to 9 cm. long, 3 to 7 mm. wide, glabrous on the upper surface, softly 
pubescent to nearly glabrous beneath, strongly ciliate on margin near base, the thick 
cartilaginous margin white at least when dry; panicles 5 to 8 cm. long, the branches 
ascending; spikelets 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, elliptic, subacute, first glume one- 
fourth to one-third as long as the spikelet; second glume and sterile lemma pubes- 
cent, the glume slightly shorter than the fruit at maturity, fruit 1.7 mm. long, 1 mm. 
wide, elliptic, obtuse. 
