PANICE.E. 117 



Found also in tlie West Indies. 



19. P. fasciculatum S\v. Fl. lud. Occ. 1 : 145 (1797). P. 

 striatum Chapm. Fl. S. States, Suppl, 6G6 (1889), not Lam., not 

 R. Br. 



Annual; culms branching, erect, or the base decumbent, 30-90 

 cm. high. Leaf-blades thin, flat, cordate, rough or smooth, G-20 

 cm. long. 5-7 mm. wide. Panicle contracted, exserted or partially- 

 included, brandies mostly simple, erect, 8-15 cm. long. Spikelets 

 smooth, nerves of the glumes reticulate, pedicellate, mostly in pairs 

 on one side of a slender, flexuose, hairy branch, obovate, almost 

 acute, 3-3.5 mm. long, first glume broad, irregularly nerved, about 

 1 mm. long, second broad-obovate. 7-9-nerved; floral glume of the 

 sterile floret broad-oval, 7-nerved, its palea of equal length, oval; 

 fertile floret with the sides unequally convex, rugose with trans- 

 verse lines, broad-oval, 2.5-2.8 mm. long. 



Mexico, Palmer 159, 208; Lower California, Palmer 207; 

 Texas, U. 8. Dept. Agricul. from Reverchou. 



South Carolina to Florida and Texas. 



Also found in the West Indies and in South America. 



Var. fuscum (Sw.) P. fnsctwi Sw. Prod. 23 (1788). Plant 

 smaller; leaves 1-6 cm. long; spikes 1-3 cm. long; second glume 

 and lower floral glume 5-nerved. 



Arizona. Pringle in 1884, distributed as P. fuscum Sw. 



Var. major (Vasey). P. fuscum major Vasey, Contrib. L^. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 3: 27 (1892). The whole plant stouter; blades 1.5 cm. 

 wide; panicle 12 cm. long. 



Lower California, Palmer 158. 



Var. reticulatum (Torr.) P. reticulatum Torr. Marcy, Bot. 

 Exp. Red Riv. Louis. 299 (1852). Plant strict, blades narrow, 4-G 

 cm. long, blades and sheaths hairy; panicle contracted, 4-7 cm. 

 long; second and third glumes 5-nerved. 



Mexico, Pringle 379, 380. 



20. P. Texanum Buckl. Orel. Rep. Geol. & Agric. Surv. Tex. 

 (1866), teste, Vasey Agricul. Grasses IT. S. (1889). Texas Mil- 

 let. CoNGHO Grass. 



A stout decumbent and spreading annual, smooth or clothed 



