41 



Tyi)e collected at Braidentuwn, Manatee County, Florida, 1298 Robert Combs, 



October 3, 1898. "In old fields and orange groves along the Manatee; abundant 



in places." Tracy's No. 5330, from Biloxi, Mississippi, and a plant collected by 



John K. Small on the slopes and summit of Stone Mountain, Georgia, Septem- 

 ber 6-12, 1894, lielong here. 

 ANDROPOGON SCOPARITJS VILLOSISSIMUS Kearn: var. nov. 

 Sheaths and usually the blades villous. 

 Type collected in very dry soil along the railroad at Waynesboro, Mississippi, 136 



T. li. Kearney, jr., October 2, 1896. Other specimens are: Nortli Carolina: Clark- 

 ton, Bladen County, 206 Bilt- 



more Herbarium, October, 



1897. Florida: Grasmere, 



1156 R. Combs and C. H. 



Baker, September, 1896; Mc-- 



Donald, Orange County, 139 



C. H. Baker, November, 1898; 



Tampa, 1371 R. Combs, Octo- 

 ber, 1898. Mississippi: Sal- 



tillo, S. M. Tracy, October 



18, 1892. Louisiana: Lake 



Charles, 3702, 3703 S. M. 



Tracy, August, 1897; Oberlin, 



219 C. R. Ball, ■ September, 



1898. 

 Paspalum altissimum LeConte, 



Journ. Phys. 91: 285 (1820). 

 "13. Altissimum. Glabrum, erec- 



tum, altum; foliis longis, basi 



vaginisque ad oras ciliatis; 



spicis 4-5 alternis, erectis, 



basi pilosis; glumis magnis, 



orbiculatis, biseriatis; rachi 



latiuscula, dentibus unifloris. 



Gramen rigidum, quinque 



pedale. Habitat prope Salem 



Carolinte borealis. 2/." 

 Dr. Vasey, in his notes on Le 



Conte' s Paspalum s,^ refersthis 



to P. floridanum Mx., with 



which it has always been con- 

 founded. He also calls atten- 

 tion to the fact that Le Coute's 



type has but two racemes, 



although the description 



reads "racemis 4-5." Le 



Conte described a form of P. 



here Mx. as P. florididium'M.yi. 

 P. altissimum is intermediate between P. florida)ru)n ]Mx. and J'. Jiijidinu (Bertol) 



Nash, with slender, erect culms, hirsute sheaths and long, slender leaves, hirsute 



above and often below also. Racemes 1 to 3, rather loosely flowered. 

 Genekal distribution. — Not uncommon in rather dry, open pine lands near the coast, 



from the Carolinas to Louisiana. 

 Specimens examined. — South Caroliiui: Florence, 688 C. R. Ball, August, 1900. Fiorida: 



Fig. Yo.—Andropogon miHsimppicims Seribii. & Ball: a, a 

 spikelet, showing joint of a.\is, etc. 



^Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1886: 288 (1886). 



