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(123) Panicum philadelphicum Bernh.; Trin., Gram. Pan. 216. 1826; Nees, 

 Agrost. Bras. 198. 1829. [Philadelphia, Pa., Bernhardt.} 

 Panicum capillare var. sylvaticum Torr., Fl. North, and Mid. U.S. 149. 1824, 



Not P. sylvaticum Lam., 1798. New York City. 

 Panicum torreyi Fourn., in Hemsl., Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3: 497. 1885. 



Based on P. capillare var. sylvaticum Torr. 

 Panicum capillare var. minimum Engelm.; Gattinger, Tenn. Fl. 94. 1887. 



[Green Brier, Tenn., Gattinger.] 

 Panicum minus Nash, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 421. 1S95. Based on 



" Panicum capillare var. minus Muhl." 

 Panicum capillare var. minus Muhl.; Nash, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 421. 

 1895, as synonym of P. minus Nash. Muhlenberg does not give this a varietal 

 name, noting only " varietas minor occurrit ubique in cultis magis aridis." 

 Panicum minimum Scribn. and Merr., U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Agrost. Circ. 

 27: 4. 1900. Based on P. capillare var. minimum Engelm. 

 (138) Panicum plenum Hitchc. and Chase, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 15: 80. 



f. 69. 1910. Mangas Springs, N.Mex., Metcalfe 739. 

 (71) Panicum polyanthes Schult., Mant. 2: 257. 1824. Based on P. multi- 

 florum Ell. 

 Panicum multiflorum Ell., Bot. S.C. and Ga. 1: 122. 1816. Not P. multi- 

 florum Poir., 1816. Presumably South Carolina. 

 Panicum microcarpon Muhl., Des'cr. Gram. 111. 1817. Not P. microcarpon 



Muhl.; Ell., 1816. Virginia, "Cherokee" [type], and Delaware. 

 Panicum firmandum Steud., Syn. PI. Glum. 1: 418. 1854. North Carolina, 



M. A. Curtis. 

 Panicum microcarpon var. isophyllum Scribn., Tenn. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 

 7: 51. f. 54. 1894. [Alleghany Springs, Tenn., Gayle.] 

 (12) Panicum polycaulon Nash, Bull. Torrev Bot. Club 24: 200. 1897. Tampa, 

 Fla., Nash 2420a. 

 Panicum dichotomum var. glabrescens Griseb., Fl. Brit. W.Ind. 553. 1864. 

 Jamaica, Purdie. 

 (84) Panicum portoricense Desv.; Hamilt., Prodr. PL Ind. Occ. 11. 1825. 

 Puerto Rico. 

 Panicum pauciciliatum Ashe, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 16: 87. 1900. 

 Wilmington, N.C., Ashe in 1899. 

 (51) Panicum praecocius Hitchc. and Chase, Rhodora 8: 206. 1906. Wady 



Petra, 111., V. H. Chase 649. 

 (58) Panicum pseudopubescens Nash, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club. 26: 577. 1899. 

 Auburn, Ala., Earle and Baker 1537. 

 Panicum villosissimum var. pseudopubescens Fernald, Rhodora 36: 79. 1934. 

 Based on P. pseudopubescens Nash. 

 (113) Panicum purpurascens Raddi, Agrost. Bras. 47. 1823. Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil, Raddi. (P. purpurascens Opiz, 1822, is a name only.) 

 Panicum barbinode Trin., Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. Sci. Nat. 1: 256. 1834. 



Bahia, Brazil. 

 Panicum guadaloupense Steud., Syn. PI. Glum. 1: 61. 1854. Guadeloupe. 

 Panicum equinum Salzm.; Steud., Syn. PL Glum. 1: 67. 1854. Bahia, Brazil, 



Salzmann. 

 Panicum piciigluma Steud., Syn. PL Glum. 1: 73. 1854. Brazil. 

 This species has been referred to P. numidianum Lam. Together with that 

 and P. barbinode Trin. it is included under Brachiaria mutica (Forsk.) Stapf, in 

 Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 526. 1919. 



(2) Panicum ramisetum Scribn., U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Agrost.'Circ. 27: 9. 1900. 

 Based on P. subspicatum Vasey. 

 Panicum subspicatum Vasey, U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Bot. Bull. 8: 25. 1889. 



Not P. subspicatum Desv., 1831. Texas, Nealley. 

 Chaetochloa ramiseta Smyth, Kans. Acad. Sci. Trans. 25: 89. 1913. Based on 

 Panicum ramisetum Scribn. 

 Panicum ramosum L., Mant. PL 1: 29. 1767. "In Indiis." 

 (94) Panicum ravenelii Scribn. and Merr., U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Agrost. Bull. 

 24: 36. 1901. Based on P. scoparium as described by Elliott. [South 

 Carolina and Georgia.] 

 Panicum scoparium var. majus Vasey, U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Bot. Bull. 8: 32. 

 ' 1889. South Carolina, Ravenel. 



Panicum scoparium var. genuinum Scribn., Tenn. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bull. 7: 48. 

 1894. Based on P. scoparium Lam., as described bv Elliott. 

 (140) Panicum repens L., Sp. PL ed. 2. 87. 1762. Southern Europe. 



Panicum littorale Mohr; Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 4: 106. 1879. Mobile, Ala., Mohr. 



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