340 PLANT LIKE <)K AL.VIJAMA. 



Tkopicai, Afkica, Asia, Wkst Indiks, S<h'tii Amekica. 



Loiiisiiiniau area. Floriila, Texan. 



.'Vi.ahama: Adventivo (tn Itiillaut. Moltilr, .Inly, 18!(L roroniiial. 



T\ jM' locality: .lainaica. 



Herb. (Jeul. iSurv. Uorl). Molir. 



PANICUM L. S].. IM. 1:-..-.. nrv.i. 



Over 300 distinct species, mostly pcnMiuials, of temperate and warm rcf^ions, liotli 

 hemispheres, hirj^ely of the warmer parts of Amoiica, from Now England to Mra/il. 

 North America, over 100 species. 



Panicum digitarioides Carpenter; M. A. Curtis. Am. .lourii. Sci. ser. 'J, 7:410. 184H. 

 As synonym. • Maidkn Cank. 



J'aniciim ciirlisii Chap. Fl. .'STS. 1S60. 



Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



Ai.aua.ma: Coast plain and Littoral belt. Marslies. Mobile County. .Xuffust to 

 October; fre(|uent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Around Wilmington, N. C." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum texanum Buck., Prel. Rep. (leol. & Agric. Surv. Tex. 1866. 



Texas Mim.kt. 



Vasey. Bull. V. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. 25, 1. 10. Coulter. Contr. Nat. Herl). 2 :!i03. 

 Louisianian area. Texas. 



Alabama: Ad ventive with seed oats in cultivated ground. Mobile County. Lee 

 County, Auburn. Perennial. 

 'l\ype locality: "Austin, Texas." 

 Herb. (ieol. Surv. Herb. Molir. 



Panicum stenodes Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 517. 1861. 



/'. anceps var. xirictum Chap. Fl. 573. 1860. 



Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 583. 



Perennial from a stout rhizoma, 2i: feet high; culm wiry, terete, perfectly smooth; 

 leaves narrowly linear, rigid, erect; panicle mostly terminal, narrow, the filiform 

 branehlets closely adpressed or more or less spreading; spikelets small, straight, 

 acute, on longer or shorter pedicels, crowded mostly on one side of the rachis. 



Described by Grisebach as an annual plant. 



Wkst Indies to Bhazil. 



Louisianian area. Florida, along the coast to Mississippi. 



Alaha.ma: Coast plain. W^et sandy ground. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Bor- 

 der of pine barren ])ond8. 



Typeloeality : " Hab. Jamaica! * » * Trinidad! * * * [Cuba!; Brazil!]." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum prostratum Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1:171. 1791. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 6156. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 27. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 546. 



West Indies, Mexico to Brazil, Egypt, Arabia to East Indies, and Aus- 

 tralia. 



Louisianian area. Louisiana, adventive from the tropics. 



Alabama: A waif on ballast ground; rare. Mobile. August; perennial. 



Type locality : "Ex insulis Caribaeis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum fasciculatum Sw. Prodr. Veg. Inid. Occ. 1: 145. 1797. 



I'tinicum fuscum var. faseiculatuvi Griseb. FL Brit. W. Ind. 547. 1864. 



Griseb. 1. c. 



Tropical America. 



Louisiani.an area. 



Alabama: Adventive. Mobile County, fugitive on ballast, August 10, 1891. 

 Annual. 



Type locality West Indian. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum grossarium L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 871. \ 1758-.59. .Jamaica Crab Grass. 



Scribner, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 7^: 61, i. 43. 

 Stout perennial with the culm creeping at ite base and rooting at the joints, 



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