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branous, usually purplish, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, acutisb, 

 the second and third scales equal in length, membranous, broadly 

 oval, 7-nerved, densely pubescent with slightly ascending hairs, 

 the third scale enclosing a hyaline palet about one-half its length, 

 the fourth scale chartaceous, yellowish, oval, obtusely apiculate, 

 enclosing a palet of equal length and similar texture. 



In moist sand in the "pine barrens" at Forked River, N. J. 

 Collected by Dr. Britton during an excursion of the Torrey Botan- 

 ical Club to that region May 29-June 2, 1896. 



Panicum ciliiferum n. sp. 



Culms caespitose, 2-8 dm. tall, erect, at length much branched 

 and decumbent, hirsute, except a naked ring below the barbed 

 nodes, with ascending or nearly appressed hairs, which are usually 

 more scanty at the summit or nearly wanting. Sheaths papillose- 

 liirsute with ascending or nearly appressed hairs, the basal ones 

 crowded, the remainder shorter than the internodes ; ligule a ring 

 of hairs about i mm. long, often with an upper supplemental row 

 of much longer hairs ; leaves rough and pubescent on the lower 

 surface with short rigid appressed hairs, at least at first, the upper 

 surface smooth and glabrous, or sometimes a (ew scattered long 

 hairs near the base, ciliate with ascending hairs, 9-11-nerved, 

 rounded at the base, acuminate at the apex, oblong-lanceolate to 

 lanceolate, erect or ascending, those toward the base of the culm 

 more and more spreading, shorter and broader, the primary leaves 

 2.5-9 cm. long, 3-12 mm. wide, those on the branches 6 cm. long 

 or less, 2-5 mm. wide ; mature primary panicle broadly ovate, 7-9 

 cm. long, 6-10 cm. wide, the branches spreading or slightly as- 

 cending, the longer 5-6 cm. in length, the panicles on the 

 branches much smaller and exceeded by the leaves, with the 

 bases included ; spikelets obovate, somewhat acute, 3 mm. long, 

 the first scale glabrous, about one-half as long as the spikelet, 

 i-3-nerved, acute or obtuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, the second 

 and third scales equal in length, 9-nerved, strongly pubescent 

 with somewhat ascending hairs, the latter scale enclosing a hya- 

 line palet about one-half its length, the fourth scale chartaceous, 

 oval, obtusely acute, enclosing a palet of equal length and similar 

 texture. 



Type collected by the writer in the "high pine land" at 

 Eustis, Lake Co., Florida, March 12-31, 1894, no. 147. Nos. 27, 

 75> 79, 94. 96, 103, 1 1 18, 1231, and 15 18 of the same collection 

 also belong here ; as well as no. 1857, collected in the same place 

 in 1895, and well representing the late and much-branched state. 



The harsher papillose pubescence, the broader and shorter 



