PLiANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 195 



Middle District— 'Pish House, Woodbury (C), Washington Park (S), 

 Westville, Tomlin, Mickleton, Swedesboro, Salem (S), Dividing Creek. 



Pine Barrens.—Sea Bright (NB), Manchester (NB), Lakehurst, Forked 

 River, Bamber, Speedwell, Bear Swamp, Clementon, Atsion, Egg Harbor 

 City, Landisville, Tuckahoe (S), Pancoastville (T). 



Cape May. — Court House, Clermont. 



Panicum capillare L. Witch Grass. 



PI. IX., fig. 3. 



Panicum capillare Linnaeus, Sp. PL 58. 1753 [Virginia and Jamaica].— 

 Britton 281. 



Common throughout, except in the Pine Barrens. Whatever 

 the original habitat of this grass may have been, it is now essen- 

 tially a weed abounding in cultivated and waste ground, with 

 little to remind one of its native origin. 



Fl. — Late August to latj September. 



Panicum piiiiadeiphicum Bernh. Wood Witch Grass. 



Panicum philadelphicum Bernhardi, in Nees Fl. Bras. 198. 1829 [Phila- 

 delphia]. 



Dry ground, edges of woods, etc., in the Middle and Cape 

 May districts. 



A more delicate ally of the preceding. 

 Fl. — Mid-August to mid-September, 



Middle District. — Medford, Swedesboro, Riddleton. 

 Pine Barrens. — Lakehurst (H&C), Sea Isle Jnc. 

 Cape Afai-.— Wildwood Jnc. (OHB), Cold Spring. 



Panicum dichotomifiorum Michx. Spreading Panic Grass. 



Panicum dichotomiliortim Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. L 48. 1803 [Alleghany 



Mts.]. 

 Panicum proliferum Britton, 281. 



Wet places ; common along the larger streams of the Middle 

 district and the salt marshes of the coast; only casually reported 

 from the northern counties. 



Fl. — Mid-July to early October. 



Middle District.— Vr&t\io\A (H&C), Fish House (S), Camden, Westville, 

 W. Deptford, Swedesboro. 



Coast Strip.— Deal (P), Cox's, Spray Beach (L), Barnegat City (L). 

 Cape May.— Cold Spring (S), Cape May (OHB). 



