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rous, purplish, spreading. Panicle 2’—3’ long, oval, the 
fascicled branches spreading or reflexed ; spikelets about 
#” long, narrowly obovate, pubescent; the axis of the 
panicle generally viscid. The later stage much branch- 
ed. 
Dry rocky woods. Maryland to North Carolina and Georgia. Near 
Washington, D. C. Ward; 1892. North Carolina: Ashe; Chapel 
Hill, 1898. Georgia: Ashe; Stone Mt., 1896. Related to P. barbu- 
latum, but has a smaller panicle, and is pubescent. 
67) PANICUM MERIDIONALE Ashe, sp. nev. Stems 
4’—8’ high, densely tufted, erect or ascending, villous 
with ascending hairs, purplish, very leafy. Sheaths 
striate, villous with ascending hairs, generally shorter 
than the internodes; ligule pilose. Leaves numerous, 
erect or ascending, 1’—13’ long, about 2’ wide, lanceolate, 
rounded at the base, beneath pubescent with short as- 
cending hairs, above with a few scattered long hairs, or 
towards the base of the leaf villous. Panicle glabrous 
1’—2’ long, the branches single or a few together, as- 
cending ; spikelets elliptical or obovate, nearly }"’ long, 
the first scale about one third the length of the glabrous 
second and third. 
I have collected this species at two localities in North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill in June, 1898; and Jonas Ridge, Burke Co., June, 1893. 
As these two stations are far apart the plant probably occurs in other 
States to the north and south of North Carolina. Dry rocky woods. 
Very different from either P. filiculme, P. implicatum or P, pubescens. 
68) PANICUM FILICULME Ashe, sp. nov. Stems tufted, 
or single, at first simple, later fasciculately branched 
above, erect, very slender, 6’—10’ high, more or less vil- 
lous with ascending hairs. Sheaths villous with ascend- 
ing hairs, shorter than the internodes; ligule of very 
short pubescence or of long hair. Leaves narrowly ian- 
ceolate, 13’ long or less, 1’’-—2”’ wide, rounded at the base, 
the lower surface papillose, appressed pubescent, 
the upper nearly glabrous, hirsute, or merely the mar- 
