48 JOURNAL OF THE 
wide-spreading; spikelets about 3’’ long, elliptic or nar- 
rowly obovate, acute, giabrous. 
Coilected in June 1898 by the writer in deep, shady swamps border- 
ing lake Mattamuskeet, N. C. Probabiy found in other swamps along 
the coast of the southern states. Very different from P. sphagnicolum. 
45 PANICUM CUTHBERTI Ashe, sp. nov. Culms very 
slender, erect or spreading, deusely tufted, glabrous, 8’— 
24’ long, the autumnal state unbranched or slightly so. 
Sheaths very short, glabrous; no ligule. Stem leaves 
distant, narrowly lanceolate, taper-pointed, 3 to 5 ner- 
ved, narrowed at the base, thin, glabrous, $’—13’ long, 
1’’—2”’ wide, spreading or ascending; basal leaves densely 
tufted. Panicle broadly oval about 1’ long, the slender 
branches spreading; spikelets narrowly elliptical, acute, 
5°’ leng, the first scale one-fourth the length of the 7-ner- 
ved finely pubescent second and third. 
Wet sandy woeds, North Carolina and South Carolina. South Car- 
olina: Cuthbert; St. Helena island. North Carolina: Ashe; Chapel 
Hill, June,1898. Itis separated from /. ensi/olium by the strict habit and 
arge basal leaves of the lattcr; while P. sphagnicolum hasthe branches 
of its panicle ascending and larger obovate spikelets; and P. lucidum 
has much larger and broader spikelets, and a decumbent habit. 
46) PANICUM PARVISPICULATUM Nash, Torr. Bul.24:347 
(1897.) P. microcarpon(?) Muhl. ex Ell. Sk. 1:127 (1817). 
Stems tufted, erect, 8’—30’ high, glabrous, or with some 
appressed pubescence on the lower part and sometimes 
with the nodes barbed. Sheaths very short, generally 
glabrous, the lower sometimes pubescent; ligule short, 
pilose. Leav»s distant, ascending, much shorter than the 
internodes, lanceolate, narrowed at the base, 2’—3’ long, 
3’’°—4’’ wide, generally glabrous. Basal leaves oblong 
lanceolate, 2’--4’ long, about 4’’ wide, stiff and erect. 
Panicle 15’-—3’ long, oval or oblong,the numerous ascend- 
ing branches thickly fascicled; spikelets very numerous, 
small, scarcely 3°’ long, broadly oval. 
This species is intermediate between /. leucothrix Nash. and P. niti- 
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