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Middle District. — Fish House, Woodbury (C), Washington Park (S), 

 Wcstville, Tomlin, Mickleton, Svvedesboro, 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. PI. 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 late September. 



Panicum phiiadelphicum Bernh. Wood Witch Grass. 



Panicum phiiadelphicum 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 May.— Wildwood Jnc. (OHB), Cold Spring. 



Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. Spreading Panic Grass. 



Panicum dichotomiflorum Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. I. 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.— Frethold (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). 



