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Panicum pyriforme Nash. — Small Flora 95. Occurring in 

 the neighborhood of New Orleans and in dry woods near Cov- 

 ington. Apparently first record for Louisiana, as Small gives 

 distribution "clay or sandy soil peninsular Florida." 



Panicum roanokense Ashe. — Small Flora 95. One of the 

 first spring grasses in the vicinity of Slidell and Pearl River. 

 According to Small previously recorded only from "North Caro- 

 lina, summer." 



Panicum anceps Michx. (Panicum rostratum Muhl.) — 

 Britton & Brown, Illus. Flora I, 115, Fig. 248. Small Flora 94. 

 Beale 128. Am. Grasses I, 59, Fig. 53. Very common, distributed 

 over the entire State. 



Panicum anceps pubescens Yasey. — Collected in Parishes 

 of Cameron and Calcasieu. 



Panicum Ravenelli Scrib. and Merrill (Panicum scopar- 

 ium Ell.)— Small flora 104. This plant is not known to the 

 writer, but is inserted here on the authority of Prof. Small, who 

 gives as its distribution "District of Columbia to Florida and 

 Louisiana, summer." 



Panicum scabrinsculum Ell. — Small Flora 102. Am. 

 Grasses II, 91, Fig. 387. This is a grass collected by Dr. Joor 

 in St. Tammany Parish and determined by Vasey. It has not 

 been collected by the writer. 



Panicum sphaerocarpon Ell. — Britton & Brown. Illus. 

 Flora 116, Fig. 252. Small Flora 100. Beale 137. A very com- 

 mon species occurring over the entire State. 



Panicum stenodes Griseb. (Panicum anceps strictum 

 Chap.)— Beale 126. Am. Grasses I, 52, Fig. 46. A species not 

 uncommon in the long leaf pine barrens near Mandeville and 

 Covington. v 



Panicum unciphyllum Trin. (Panicum pubescens A. 

 Gray.)— Small Flora 100. This plant was noticed by the writer 

 in his "Flora of the Gulf Biologic Station." It has been col- 

 lected by him in Calcasieu Parish and in the extreme north of 

 the State, near Ruston. It no doubt can be found elsewhere in 

 the State. Small reports it from "Maine and Quebec to British 

 Columbia. Georgia, Hie Indian Territory and Arizona." 



