brandies subflexuoiis, solitary, often fasciculately branched just above the 

 base. Spikelets 1.5 mm. long, elliptical ovate, obtuse, first empty glume 

 muiute, the faintly 5-7-nerved, obtuse second and third glumes slightly 

 exceeded by the obtuse, perfect floret. 



Waller Coimty, Texas. Collected by F. W. Thurow, May 5, 1898. 



Closely related to Panicnm iiitichnn Lam., from which it may be separated by 

 the greater number of nodes of the culm, the smooth leaves and sheaths, 

 and the glabrous spikelets. No. 565 Lindheimer (184r>) approaches this in 

 habit and leaf characters, but has the ovate, obtuse panicles abruptly 

 rounded at the base, the branches horizontal and more flexuous, and the 

 minutely puberulent second and third empty glumes exceeded by the flow- 

 ering glume. 



F. Lamson-Scribner, 



Agrostologist. 



Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Washington, D. C, June 16, 1899. 



