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one-third the lengthof the leaves, papillose-hirsute: li- 
cule a mere margin. Stem leaves few, mostly near the 
base of the culms, ascending or spreading, narrowly lan- 
ceolate, very taper-pointed, narrowed at the base or 
somewhat rounded, 7 to 9-nerved, the largest 3’—4’ long, 
4”’__5”’ wide, the upper leaves, scarcely reduced in size, 
elabrous or hirsute with long white hairs, often with cil- 
iate margins ; basal leaves shorter but similar to these of 
the stem, ciliate-margined, often hirsute, very abundant, 
soft and lax. Panicle 3’ to 4’ long, obovate, the branches 
slender, lax; spikelets obovate, about 1”’ long, the acut- 
ish first scale one-fourth the length of the very pubescent, 
9-néerved second and third. 
Late panicles included in very short sheaths which are not longer 
than the basal leaves. Primary culms do not become fasciculately 
branched. Color light green. Damp shady hillsides, Maryland and Ken- 
tucky to Alabama and Florida. The basal leaves form large tufts 
which remain green throughout the winter. It is one of the earliest 
spring species. April-July. West Virginia; Small, 1892. Florida ; 
Curtiss, Juniper, 1895, No. 5537. Tennessee ; Ruth, 1897. . Panicum 
caricifolium Scribn. in herb. as distributed by Kearney (Washington, 
D. C., May, 1897) differs from this only in its somewhat smaller—quite 
34’? long spikelets. 
64) PANICUM LANUGINOSUM Elliott. Sk. 1:123 (1817). 
Stems ascending from a geniculate base, rather stout, 
12’—24’ long, villous below, pubescent above. Sheaths 
shorter than the leaves, the lower, at least, densely pilose 
with soft pubescence, the upper often glabrous, barbed 
above the naked joint ; ligule a ring of long hairs. Stem 
leaves lanceolate, rounded at the base, spreading or as- 
cending, the largest near the base of the stem, 23’—3’ long, 
3°—4” wide, 9—11-nerved, generally soft-pubescent be- 
neath, glabrous above, or the lowest pilose on both sides, 
finely ciliate on the margins, particularly the upper ones 
toward the base ; upper leaves much reduced in size. Pan- 
icle 2’—3’ long nearly as wide, the numerous, fascicled, 
smooth branches ascending ; spikelets small for size of 
