66 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



"Isle of Pines, Taylor j^, Curtiss in 1904" (Hitchcock). General 

 Distribution: Savannas and moist sandy woods, Bahamas, Cuba, 

 and the Isle of Pines. 



108. Panicum fusiforme Hitchcock. 



Panicum fusiforme Hitchcock, Contributions U. S. National Herbarium, XII, 



1909, p. 222. 

 Panicum neuranthum ramosum Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 



1866, p. 232. Not ramosum L., 1767. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 13, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 406. 

 General Distribution: Open moist savannas and sandy pine woods, 

 Florida, Cuba, Isle of Pines, Jamaica, and British Honduras. 



109. Panicum geminatum Forskal. 



Panicum geminatum Forskal, Flora ^gyptiaco-Arabica, 1775, p. 18. 

 Panicum paspalodes Persoon, Synopsis Plantarum, I, 1805, p. 81. 

 Panicum hryzoides Lamarck, Illustrations des Genres, I, 1791, p. 170. Not 

 Linnaeus, 1771. 



"'Isle of Pines, Curtiss in 1904 in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard." (Hitch- 

 cock). General Distribution: Moist ground, swamps, ditches, etc., 

 in the tropics of both hemispheres, and reaching north in America 

 as far as the Bahamas, southern Florida, Texas, and Lower California. 



no. Panicum laxum Swartz. 



Panicum laxum, Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indise Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 23. 

 Panicum agrostidiforme Lamarck, Illustrations des Genres, I, 1791, p. 172. 

 Panicum tenuiculmum Meyer, Primitiae Florae Essequeboensis, 1818, p. 58. 

 Panicum polygonalum Schrader, in Schultes, Mantissa ad Systema Vegetabilium, 



II, 1824, p. 256. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April and May, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 464; 



" Isle of Pines, Palmer & Riley 1069, Taylor 37 " (Hitchcock). General 



Distribution: From the West Indies and northwestern Mexico south 



to Paraguay. 



III. Panicum polycaulon Nash. 



Panicum polycaulon Nash, Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club, XXIV, 1897, p. 200. 

 Panicum dicholomum var. glabrescens Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian 

 Islands, 1864, p. 553. 



"Isle of Pines, Palmer & Riley 990" (Hitchcock). General Distri- 

 bution: Moist open woods and savannas, Florida, and the Greater 

 Antilles. 



