1901] Scribner & Merrill, — New England Panicum 105 
Smith, Sept. 1899; Marthas Vineyard, Sydney Harris, Aug. 27, 
1895; blue Hills, Pine-tree Pool, W. Z. Manning, Sept. 2, 1895 ; 
Plymouth, Oakes collection, in Gray Herbarium; Medford, 7. S. 
Collins, Sept. 15, 1887 ; Uxbridge, J. W. Robbins, Sept, 1864. CoN- 
NECTICUT: New Haven, /. A. Allen, Sept., 1876. 
i t More or less hirsute. 
10. PANICUM CAPILLARE Linn. Sp. Pl. £8. 1753.— An annual with 
usually coarse, branching stems, 3-9 dm. long, very hairy leaf-sheaths 
and capillary, widely-spreading panicles, which are terminal on the 
culm or its branches. Culms geniculate and branching near the base, 
rarely simple, generally pilose or pubescent below the bearded nodes. 
Sheaths pilose to densely hirsute, with spreading hairs; ligule very 
short, finely ciliate; leaf-blades flat, lanceolate or linear, acute, 
usually thinly hairy on both sides, margins scabrous and ciliate near 
the base, the hairs throughout spring from small papillae, those on 
the leaf-blade being confined chiefly to the principal nerves. Panicle 
diffuse, 8-30 cm. long, the branches solitary, in pairs or rarely 
whorled, the ultimate branches and pedicels strongly hispid. Spike- 
lets 2 mm. long, ovate, acute, or abruptly acuminate-pointed, smooth ; 
first glume clasping the base of the spikelet, obtuse or acute, 1 to 
3-nerved, about one-third the length of the 5 to 7-nerved and nearly 
equal second and third glumes, the acute tips of these are sometimes 
minutely pubescent; flowering glume smooth and shining, elliptical, 
obtuse, or subacute, a little shorter than the larger outer glumes. 
Variable. 
General distribution: in dry soil, waste ground and cultivated 
fields, Nova Scotia to British Columbia, south to Florida, Nevada and 
Texas. July to September. Introduced from Europe. 
Marne: Fort Fairfield, gravelly shores, AZ. Z. Fernald, Sept. 9, 
1896; Dover, roadsides, M. Z. Fernald, Aug. 27, 1894; Orono, dry 
fields, M. Z. Fernald, Aug. 28, 1889; East Auburn, waste places, 
E. D. Merrill, Aug. 1897. New HAMPSHIRE: Jaffrey, dry sandy 
soil, 396 B. Z. Robinson, Sept. 1897 ; Randolph, 7. R. Churchil/, Aug. 
4, 1889; Gilmanton, 7. Blake, Sept. 6, 1869. MASSACHUSETTS: 
Malden, 7. S. Collins, Aug. 9, 1887; Revere, Oak Island 77. A. 
Young, Aug. 27, 1882, Nonquit, Æ. Z Sturtevant, Sept. 5, 1888; 
South Framingham, Æ. Z. Sturtevant, Aug. 11, 1890; South Poston, 
W. P. Rich, Aug. 29, 1888, a low reduced form: Mystic Pond, 
W. P. Rich, Sept. 29, 1891; Dorchester, 7. A. Churchill. Sept. 8 
1883; Cambridge, W. Deane, Aug. 23, 1883 and Sept. 20, 1886. 
11. PANICUM MINIMUM (Engel) Scribn. & Merrill, U. S. Dept. 
Agr. Div. Agros. Cir. 27: 4.1900. (Panicum capillare minimum Engel. 
in Scribn. Tenn. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bul. 75: 44. fig. 40. 1894; Panicum 
minus Nash, Bul. Torr. Bot. Club, 22: 421. 1895, not Panicum 
capillare minor Muhl. Descr. 124. 1817.) 
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