X oe eee eee VERS SER 10 X y & wn T 
1901] Scribner & Merrill, — New England Panicum IIQ 
4: 738 (err. typ. 748.) 1797. (Zanicum—- Muhl. Descr. 125. 1817 
number 37 (sine nomine); Panicum spretum Schult. Mant. 2: 248. 
1824; Panicum nitidum forma densiflorum Scribn. in Rand & Red- 
field, Fl. Mt. Desert Isl. 174. 18943 Pantcum eatoni Nash Bul. Torr. 
Bot. Club, 25: 814. 1898; Panicum paucipilum Nash, ibid., 26: 573. 
1899.) 
Kelab idus tufted perennial 6 to ro dm. high, with erect, narrowly 
lanceolate leaves, and exserted, contracted panicles, bearing numer- 
ous, small, purplish, pubescent spikelets. Culms at first simple, 
becoming dichotomously branched, generally purplish; nodes 
smooth ; sheaths much shorter than the internodes, glabrous, striate, 
usually slightly ciliate on the margins above; ligule a dense ring of 
hairs about 2 mm. long; leaf-blades 5 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 10 mm. 
wide, acuminate, glabrous, or with few papillate hairs at the base. 
Panicle finally long-exserted, generally contracted, 5 to 13 cm. long; 
rachis glabrous; branches erect or ascending, Spikelets ovate, 1.4 
to 1.6 mm. long; first glume small, one-fourth to one-third as long as 
the spikelet, glabrous, r-nerved; second and third glumes pubescent 
with spreading hairs, often densely so, 7-nerved; flowering glume 
about 1.3 mm. long. 
General distribution: In wet or damp soil, especially near the 
coast, Maine to Indiana, south Mississippi and Texas. For discus- 
sion of this species see Scribn. & Merrill, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agros. 
Bul. 24: 31. r9or. 
MAINE: Mt. Desert, shore of Ripples Pond, Æ. Z. Rand; York, 
shore of Chase's Pond, 510 M. L. Fernald, July 16, 1891. Mass- 
ACHUSETTS: Stoneham, meadow, border of Spot Pond, 336 W. P. 
Rich, July 4, 1894, gravelly path, border of Doleful Pond, 320 W. P. 
Rich, July 4, 1894, meadows, west border of North Reservoir, 349 
W. P. Rich, July 7, 1894; Wilmington, damp sandy ground in a 
cranberry bog, W. P. Rich, July 18, 1899; Holbrook, wet meadows, 
W. P. Rich, June 18, 1899; Lynn, border of pond, W. P. Rich, 
Aug. 25, 1889; West Roxbury, JV. P. Rich, Aug. 27, 1880; West 
Quincy, meadow, W. P. Rich, Sept. 3, 1894; South Framingham, 
EK. L. Sturtevant, July 3, 1890 and July 6, 1890; Nonquit, 54 Æ. L. 
Sturtevant, June 26, 1889; Westford, Nebasset Pond, C. W. Swan, 
July 7, 1880; Wakefield, 7. A. Churchill, July 22, 1886; Milton, 
brook above Thatcher St., 7. R. Churchill, July 10, 1892; Concord, 
low open fields, W. Deane, July 6, 1886. RHopE IstAND: Johnson, 
J. W. Congdon, Sept. 27, 1871. CoNNEcTICUT: Waterford, wet 
meadows near Miner’s Lane, 87 C. B. Graves, July 15, 1898, open 
damp ground, C. B. Graves, 1895; Franklin, C. B. Graves, July 3, 
1899. 
28. PANICUM CLUTEI Nash, Bul. Torr. Bot. Club, 26: 569. 1899.— 
A tufted, glabrous perennial 6-9 dm. high, with ascending, lanceolate 
leaves and exserted, ovate, panicles 6-10 cm. long. Culms rather 
