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branous, usually purplish, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, acutish, 
the second and third scales equal in length, membranous, broadly 
oval, 7-nerved, densely pubescent with slightly ascending hairs, 
the third scale enclosing a hyaline palet about one-half its length, 
the fourth scale chartaceous, yellowish, oval, obtusely apiculate, 
enclosing a palet of equal length and similar texture. 
In moist sand in the “ pine barrens” at Forked River, N. J. 
Collected by Dr. Britton during an excursion of the Torrey Botan- 
ical Club to that region May 29-June 2, 1896. 
‘ PANICUM CILIFERUM 0. sp. 
Culms caespitose, 2-8 dm. tall, erect, at length much branched 
and decumbent, hirsute, except a naked ring below the barbed 
nodes, with ascending or nearly appressed hairs, which are usually 
more scanty at the summit or nearly wanting. Sieaths papillose- 
hirsute with ascending or nearly appressed hairs, the basal ones 
crowded, the remainder shorter than the internodes; ligule a ring 
of hairs about 1 mm. long, often with an upper supplemental row 
of much longer hairs ; leaves rough and pubescent on the lower 
surface with short rigid appressed hairs, at least at first, the upper 
Surface smooth and glabrous, or sometimes a few scattered long 
hairs near the base, ciliate with ascending hairs, 9-11-nerved, 
rounded at the base, acuminate at the apex, oblong-lanceolate to 
lanceolate, erect or ascending, those toward the base of the culm 
more and more spreading, shorter and broader, the primary leaves 
2.5-9 cm. long, 3-12 mm. wide, those on the branches 6 cm. long 
or less, 2-5 mm. wide; mature primary panicle broadly ovate, 7-9 
cm. long, 6-10 cm. wide, the branches spreading or slightly as- 
cending, the longer 5-6 cm. in length, the panicles on the 
branches much smaller and exceeded by the leaves, with the 
bases included ; spikelets obovate, somewhat acute, 3 mm. long, 
the first scale glabrous, about one-half as long as the spikelet, 
I—3-nerved, acute or obtuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, the second 
and third scales equal in length, 9-nerved, strongly pubescent 
with somewhat ascending hairs, the latter scale enclosing a hya- 
line palet about one-half its length, the fourth scale chartaceous, 
iver, obtusely acute, enclosing a palet of equal length and similar 
exture. 
Type collected by the writer in the “high pine land” at 
Eustis, Lake Co., Florida, March 12-31, 1894, no. 147. Nos. aD ; 
75, 79, 94, 96, 103, 1118, 1231, and 1518 of the same collection 
also belong here ; as well as no. 1857, collected in the same place 
in 1895, and well representing the late and much-branched vegier | 
The harsher papillose pubescence, the broader and geese 
