17 



Panicum digitarioides Carpenter. P. Curtisii Chap. P. 

 carina I urn Torr. — Britton & Brown, Illus. Flora I, 114, Fig. 

 215. Small Flora 91. Beaie 115. Growing in shallow water 

 near Slidoll and also near Lake Charles. 



Panicum gibbum Ell. — Britton & Brown, Illus. Flora I, 

 125, Fig. 279. Small Flora 105. Beale 126. Am. Grasses I, 53, 

 Fig. 17. In swamps and water almost over the entire State. 

 Collected by the writer, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Baton 

 Rouge, Shreveport. 



Panicum gymnocarpon Ell.— Small Flora 104. Beale 123. 

 Am. Grasses II, 58, Fig. 354. Very common in ditches in the 

 vicinity of New Orleans and on .the edges of swamps in most 

 parts of the State. 



Panicum Helleri Nash. — Small Flora 102. This plant 

 has not been seen by the writer and is inserted here on the 

 authority of Prof. S. M. Tracy, who collected it at Cameron in 

 the summer of 1903. Prof. Small gives its distribution as "stony 

 wooded hillsides Southern Texas." 



Panicum hians Ell. (Panicum dtivqricatum Michx.) 

 (Panicum melicarium Michx.) — -Britton & Brown, Illus. Flora 

 I, 112, Fig. 247. Small Flora 105. Beale 127. Am. Grasses I, 

 54, Fig. 48. Very common in Louisiana, both on the edges of 

 swamps and in the dry pine barrens. Observed in neighborhood 

 of New Orleans, Mandeville, Covington, Lake Charles, Bayou 

 Sara, Shreveport. 



Panicum ixflatum Scrib. & Smith. (Panicum Mississip- 

 piense Aslie. — Small Flora 100. Not uncommon on the prairies 

 of Calcasieu. According to Small, found "in sandy soil, Missis- 

 sippi." 



Panicum ensulaee I L. I Mkykr. (P. leucopfrai inn //. B. I\.) 

 — Small Flora 83. Collected once or twice near New Orleans on 

 the levees of the Mississippi. 



Panicum Joorii Vasey. — Small Flora 103. Collected by the 

 writer in the vicinity of Baton Rouge and also in "West Feliciana 

 near the borders of Mississippi. 



Panicum laxiflorum Lam. — Britton & Brown, Illus. Flora 

 I, 119. Fig. 262. Small Flora 95. Beale 139. Am. Grasses II, 

 82, Fig. 378. Collected by the writer in the vicinity of Baton 

 Rouge, also near Bayou Sara and Shreveport. 



