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articulee, feuillee mediocrement, simple, pubescente. Les feuilles? sont 

 distantes, courtes, ovales-lanceolees, pointues, pubescentes, & largesd' envi- 

 ron six lignes. La panicule est terminale, longue de quatre ou cinq 

 pouces, rameuse, velue sur son axe & ses principales ramifications, & paroit 

 en grand partie denuee de fleurs, sans doute par I'effet de la chute prompte 

 de celles qui se sont developpees les premieres. Les fleurs sont un pen 

 pedicellees, ovales, striees, velue^, mutiques. La troisieme valve calici- 

 nale est courte, pointue, bien apparente. 



"Cette plante a ete recueillie dans la Basse-Caroline par le citoyen Michaux 

 (v. s.)."^ Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 744 (1797). 

 This plant was collected in South Carolina b"y Michaux (v. s. ). 



' ' Panic pubescent; Panicum jntbescens. 



"Panicum pubescens panicula parva laxa sessili pauciflora, glumis ovatis sub- 

 pedicellatis, culmo superno ramosissimo. 



"Les tiges, les feuilles, la panicule & les l)ales sont convert e? d'un duvel court, 

 tres-remarquable, qui donne a la plante une couleur cendree ou blanch- 

 atre. La tige, qui quolquefois n'a guere plus de six pouces de hauteur, 

 s'eleve d'autres fois a la hauteur d'un pied ou un peu plus. Elle est un 

 pen coudee a ses articulations, dont les inferieures sont frequentes, & se 

 divise dans sa partie superieure en plusieurs ramifications presque dicho- 

 tomes. Ses feuilles sont graminees, planes, ou i^resque planes, larges 

 de deux a, trois lignes, d'un vert glauque ou grisatre, & puljescentes des 

 deux cote, ainsi que sur leur gaine. Les panicules sont terminales, 

 petites, tres-laches, sessiles, & coinposees de trois ou c^uatre ramifications 

 alternes, distantes & pauciflores. Les bales sont ovales, un peu pedi- 

 cellees & pubescentes conime les autres parties de la plante. J'ai vu de 

 cette espece un individu nain dans I'herbier de Vaillant; il I'avoit re^ue de 

 Sherard en 172L Le citoyen Michaux I'a trouvee dans la Basse-Caroline 

 (v. 8.)."'-= Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 748 (1797). 



^ According to specimens of this plant which I have seen in the herbarium of Jus- 

 sieu, the culm was about a foot and a half high. It is articulate, sparingly branched, 

 simple, pubescent. The leaves are distant, short, oval-lanceolate, pointed, pubes- 

 cent, and about 6 lines wide. The panicle is terminal, 4 or 5 inches long, branch- 

 ing, downy on its axis and its principal branches, and seems to be almost entirely 

 bare of flowers, doubtless due to the early fall of those which developed first. The 

 flowers are short-pedicelled, oval, striate, downy, muticous. The third glume is 

 short, pointed, very prominent. 



^ Culms, leaves, panicle, and spikelets are covered with a very peculiar short down, 

 which gives the plant an ashy or whitish color. The culm, which sometimes is not 

 more than 6 inches high, at other times reaches the height of a foot or more. It is 

 slightly bent at its articulations, the lower of which are numerous, and is divided 

 above into several nearly dichotomous branches. The leaves are grasslike, flat, or 

 nearly so, 2 or 3 lines wide, glaucous green or grayish, and pubescent on both sides, as 

 is also the sheath. The panicles are terminal, small, verj' lax, sessile, and composed 

 of three or four alternate l^ranches, distant and few-flowered. The spikelets are oval, 

 shortly pedicelled and pubescent like the Other parts of the plant. I have seen a 

 dwarfed individual of this species in the herbarium of Vaillant, who had received it 

 from Sherard in 1721. Michaux found it in South Carolina (v. s.). 



