42 JOURNAL OF THE 
-leng, 1°’—2”’ wide, glabrous. Panicles long-peduncled, 
2’—4’ long, loose, the slender flexuous, generally solita- 
ry branches ascending ; spikelets about 1’’ long, obovate, 
the first scale about one third the length of the 7-nerved 
second and third. Setondary basal panicles only spar- 
ingly developed. 
Very close to P. lineartfolium. Connecticut to Ohio in swamps. 
Connecticut: Eames; Fairfield, 1896. New York; Rowlee; Ithaca, 
1892. . 
32) PANICUM NEMOPANTHUM Ashe, sp. nov. Tuft- 
ed, stems erect, 14’—20’ high, glabrous. Sheaths glab- 
rous, or the lowest pubescent, the upper sofnetimes 
longer than internodes, the nodes, atleast the lower ones, 
barbed with long hairs; ligule none. Leaves linear lan- 
ceolate, spreading or ascending, long taper-pointed, — 
glabrous or ciliate toward the narrowed base. Panicle 
3’—4’ long, broader than long, the mostly single branch- 
es wide-spreading, lax and drooping, few-flowered ; 
spikelets elliptic, acute, nearly 15’’ long, on long, flexu- 
ous pedicels, the obtuse first scale over one-third the 
length of the glabrous, 7-nerved second and third. 
Type material collected by the writer April, 1895, in the Penitentia- 
ry woods, Raleigh, N. C. A very distinct species. 
33) PaNnicUM DICHOTOMUM L, Sp. PI. 58 (1753). P. 
ramulosum Mx. P. nodifiorum Lam.? Several stems to- 
gether, 10’ -- 24’ high, erect. Sheaths, except the low- 
est, glabrous, lowest node occasionally barbed and its 
sheath pubescent. Sheaths shorter than the internodes; 
ligule none. Leaves spreading, lax, largest 13’—23’ 
long, 3’’-—4’’ wide, narrowed toa rounded, sparingly cil- 
iate base, otherwise glabrous. Primary panicle 2’ or 
more long, oval, the branches lax; spikelets 1”’ long, el- 
liptic, glabrous. 
Shady woods throughout the eastern United States north of Florida 
and Texas. Florida: Chapman; Apalachicola. Texas: Nealley; Rock 
