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ered with long spreading hairs,,as well as its slender 
pedicel. 
Distinguished from A. AFiliotit and all the slender forms of that 
species, by the much smaller spikelets, scattered branches and narrow 
sheaths, which do not enlarge. 
Collected by the writer in pine woune in Durham county, N. C., 
Oct. 1896: 
ANDROPOGON MOHRII PUNGENSIS, var. nov. Less 
tomentose than the type. Spikes generally more sumer- 
ous, 4 to 12, and shorter, enclosed in the sheaths or pro- 
truding. 
Collected by the writer in grassy swamps at the head of Pungo river, 
Washington county, N. C., Oct. and Nov., 1898. 
