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one-half its length, the fourth scale chartaceous, oval, enclosing a 
palet of equal length and similar texture. 
Collected by the writer in the “high pine land” at Eustis, 
Lake County, Florida, May 1-15, 1894, no. 628, and distributed 
as P. pauciflorum Ell. It appears quite distinct from a specimen of 
that species, so named by Elliott, preserved in the herbarium of 
Columbia University, the character of the pubescence and the 
spikelets serving well to distinguish it. 
vPANICUM MALACOPHYLLUM nh. sp. 
Whole plant, except the leaves, papillose-hirsute with rather 
soft long spreading hairs. Culms 4 dm. tall or less, erect, at 
length branching toward the summit; nodes densely barbed with 
reflexed hairs; ligule a ring of hairs about I mm. long; sheaths 
shorter than the internodes, loosely embracing the culms; leaves 
erect or ascending, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, narrowed toward 
the rounded base, acuminate at the apex, softly pubescent on both 
surfaces, rough on the margins, 7-nerved, the primary leaves 5-8 
cm. long, 4-11 mm. wide, the leaves of the branches 4 cm. long 
or less, 3-5 mm. wide; panicle slightly exserted, ovate, 3-5 cm. 
long, the branches spreading, somewhat flexuous, the lower 1.5-2 
cm. long, bearing 4-8 spikelets on pedicels shorter than them- 
selves; spikelets obovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, acute, the outer three 
scales membranous, densely pubescent with long spreading hairs, 
the first scale orbicular-ovate, acute, about two-fifths as long as 
the spikelet, 1-nerved, the second and third scales equal in length, 
broadly oval, 9-nerved, acute, the latter enclosing a hyaline palet 
about one-half its length, the fourth scale chartaceous, broadly 
oval, yellowish white, enclosing a palet of equal length and similar 
texture. 
Type collected by Mr. B. F. Bush on May 19, 1895, at 
Sapulpa, Indian Territory, no. 1228. The grass secured by Dr. 
Edward Palmer in 1868, on the False Washita, between Fort 
Cobb and Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory, no. 383, belongs here. 
Dr. Gattinger also obtained it in the cedar barrens of Tennessee, 
in May, 1880. 
This appears to be sufficiently distinct from P. Scribnerianum 
to warrant giving it specific rank. Its more slender habit, the 
long hirsute pubescence of the culm and the panicle, including its 
branches and pedicels, the densely barbed nodes, the softly pubes- 
cent leaves, and the somewhat smaller acute spikelets which are ~ 
densely pubescent with hirsute hairs, appear to make the above © 
disposition of the plant necessary. In P. Scribnerianum the pu- — 
