108 GRAMINEAE. 
7- Paspalum longipedunculatum Le Conte. Long-stalked Paspalum. 
(Fig. 233.) 
Paspalum debile Michx. F\. Bor. Am. 1: 44. 1803? 
Paspalum longipedunculatum Y,eConte, Journ. Phys. 91= 
284. 1820. 
ee arenarium Schrad.; Schultes, Mant. 2: 172. 
Culms reclining or decumbent, 1°-1 14° long, smooth, 
leafy at base. Sheaths glabrous or ciliate on the mar- 
gins, pilose at the throat; leaves 1/-314’ long, 2’/-3/% 
wide, glabrous or a little pilose, acuminate, ciliate on 
the margins and along the mid-nerve ; peduncles 1-2 
from the upper sheath; spikes 1-2, 1/-214’ long, more 
or less curved ; rachis very narrow, more or less flexu- 
ous; spikelets about 3’’ long, nearly globular; outer 
scales 3-nerved, the first one glabrous or sometimes 
sparsely pubescent; third scale slightly exceeding the 
outer ones. 
Sandy soil, North Carolina to Florida, Kentucky and 
Tennessee, Aug.—Sept. 
8. Paspalum laéve Michx. Field Pas- 
palum. (Fig. 234.) 
Paspalum laeve Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 44. 1803. 
Bright green, culms rather stout, erect or ascend- 
ing, 1°-3° tall, glabrous. Sheaths compressed, 
glabrous or pubescent; leaves 3/-12’ long, 2//-4/’ 
wide, acuminate, glabrous or pubescent, scabrous 
on the margins; spikes 2-6, 114’-3’ long, more 
or less spreading, alternate, about 1’ apart on the 
single stout peduncle, pilose in the axils; spikelets 
14//-114’ long, oval to orbicular, close, crowded 
in 2 rows, glabrous. 
In moist fields, Rhode Island to Kentucky and Mis- 
souri, south to Florida and Texas. Ascends to 1700 ft. 
in North Carolina. Aug.—Sept. 
g. Paspalum Floridanum Michx. Florida Paspalum. (Fig. 235.) 
Paspalus Floridanus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 44. 1803. 
Paspalum macrospermum Flugge, Monog. 172. 1810. 
Culms stout, erect, 3°-6° tall, from a creeping root- 
stock, glabrous. Sheaths glabrous, or the lower 
pubescent, sometimes glaucous; leaves 8’-15’ long, 
3//-7’/ wide, acuminate, glabrous or pubescent; spikes 
2-5 on the single stout peduncle, 2’—5’ long, erect or 
ascending, bearded in the axils; rachis about 1’’ wide, 
flat on the back, scabrous on the margins; spikelets 
1%4//-2/ long, broadly oval, glabrous, sometimes 
glaucous, crowded in 2 rows; outer scales 5-nerved ; 
third scale striate. 
Moist places, Delaware to Kentucky, south to Florida 
and Texas. Sept. 
