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gins fringed with long erect hairs, the upper leaves 
reduced in size; secondary leaves smaller, longer than 
the panicles. Panicle long-peduncled, small, about 3’ 
long, the rather short branches, erect or ascending ; spike- 
lets broadly obovate, obtuse, about 3’’ long. 
Dry soil, middle North Carolina to Georgia in the Piedmont plateau 
region. Related to P. implicatum and P. pubescens. North Carolina: 
Ashe ; Chapel Hill, 1898. Georgia: Small; Stone Mt., Aug. 1895. 
69) PANICUM CILIATUM. Ell. Sk. 1:426 (1817). P. 
ciliatifolium Kth. Stems erect, 8—16’ high, smooth, 
slender. Sheaths smooth ; ligule not hairy. Stem leaves, 
one to three, lanceolate, 1’—2’ long,2’’--3’’ wide, smooth ex- 
cept for the ciliate margins ; basal leaves very numerous, 
broader -and longer than the stem leaves, the entire mar- 
gin ciliate with long hairs, otherwise glabrous. Panicle 
rather small, 1’—2’ long, nearly as wide, the fascicled 
branches ascending or spreading ; peduncles 4 to 5 times 
the length of the panicle, smooth, spikelets on very slen- 
der pedicels, 3 or more times their length, nearly 2”’ long, 
obovate, acute, the first scale nearly one-half as long as 
the smooth 7-nerved second and third. | 
Color pale green. Rather uncommon. Ditch banks and sandy 
swamps, eastern North Carolina to Florida. A beautiful species. 
North Carolina: Ashe; near Wilmington. 1897. Florida: Biltmore 
Herbarium ; Apalachicola, No. 6022 a. 
70) PANICUM POLYCAULON Nash. Torr. Bul. 24:200, 
(1897.) Stems densely tufted, 6’—10’ tall, simple, 
nearly naked, at length somewhat branched, sheaths 
loose, glabrous, the margins ciliate, upper longest; lig- 
ule pubescent. Stem leaves ascending, lanceolate, the 
longest about 3’ long, 4’’ wide, ciliate on the margins 
7—9-nerved ; basal leaves numerous, ciliate. Panicle 
about 1’ long, its axis somewhat pilose; spikelets about 
3’? long, obovate, first scale about 3’ long, as the 7- 
nerved, glabrous second and third. 
‘The narrower leaves more slender culms, and smaller and glabrous 
