GRASSES. 353 



Panicum pubescens Lam. Encycl. 4 : 748. 1797. Hairy Panicum. 



Scribner, Grass. Tenu. 2 :52, 1. 15, f. oS. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New .Jersey to Tennessee, Florida, and Mis- 

 sissippi ( ?). 



Alabama: Monntain region to Coast plain. Dry open woods. Cullman County. 

 Mobile County, Citronelle. Frequent; perennial. 



Type locality: "Basse-Caroline." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum lauugiuosum Ell. Sk. 1 : 123. 1817. Woolly-stemmed Panicum. 



Ell. I.e. Chap. Fl. ed.3,586. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, Georgia, Plorida, MississipiJi. 



Alabama: Mountain region to Coast plain. Copses, shady banks. Cullman 

 County. Chambers County (Baker 4' Earle). Mobile County, Whistler, Springhill. 

 April, May ; not common ; perennial. 



Type locality: "Grows in Georgia. Sent to me by Dr. Baldwin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum villosissimum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 149. 1896. 



A rather stout, very hairy perennial, more or less tufted from a strong rootstock, 

 the rigid culms erect or ascending, 16 to 24 inches high, villous with long, ascending 

 hairs, barbed above the glabrous nodes; sheaths villous; stemleaveslinear-lauceolate, 

 2h to 4 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, rounded at the base, erect-spreading, with 

 spreading hairs; panicle 2+ to 3i inches long, equally broad, the numerous slender 

 branchlets fascicled; spikelets obovate, about 1 line long on slender pedicels. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to eastern Louisiana. 



Alabama: Lower Pine belt. Dry open woods. Mobile County, Siiriughill, May, 

 June; not infrequent. 



Tvpe locality: "Ocmulgee River swamp, below Macou [Georgia]." {Dr. J. K, 

 Small.) 



Panicum sphaerocarpon Ell. Sk. 1 : 125. 1817. RouNDrFRUiTED Panicum. 



Chap. Fl. 667. Vasev, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:32. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 506. 

 Scribner, Grass. Teun. 2 : 50, /. 13, f. 51, 52. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to eastern Texas. 



Alabama: Mountain region to Coast plain. Grassy swales and damp thickets. 

 Cullman County, 900 feet altitude. Dallas County, Marion Junction. Washington 

 County, Yellowpine. May, June; not infrequent; perennial. 



Type locality : "Grows in Georgia. Dr. Baldwin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum polyanthes Schult. Mant. 2 : 257. 1824. Small-fruited Panicum. 



Panicum microcarpon Muhl. Gram. 111. 1817. Not Ell. 1817. 



P. multinorum EU.Sk. 1:122. 1817. Not Poir. 1816. 



Grav, Man. ed. 6, 633. Chap. Fl. 576. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:32. Coulter, 

 Contn Nat. Herb. 2 : 506. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 50, 1. 14, f. 53. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New York to Michigan, Missouri, and Tennessee, 

 and from New Jersey to Florida and Louisiana. 



Alabama: OvertheState. Damp grassy open places. May; frequent; perennial. 



Type locality: "Grows in shaded, dry soils [South Carolina and Georgia]." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum scoparium Lam. Encycl. 4 : 744. 1797. 



Panicum »coparium var. major Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 31. 



P. scoparium genuinum Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 48. 1894. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 119. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 632. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 507. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario west to British Columbia and Oregon; 

 New England west to Nebraska and south to Florida, thence to Texas and Arkansas. 



Alabama: All over the State. Shaded grassy banks, dry woods, copses. Cullman 

 and Tuscaloosa counties. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County. Aj^ril 

 to June; frequent; perennial. 



Type locality : "Basse Caroline." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum scribuerianum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club. 22 : 421. 1895. 



Scribner's Panicum. 



Panicum acopariuvi minor Scribner, Bull. Univ. Tenu. 7 : 48. 1894. Not P. capillare 

 minus Muhl. 1817. 



Panicum scoparium AVats. &, Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 632. 1890. Not Lam. 1797. 



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