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*■* Culm-haves broadly lanceolate or aider, icith 9-15 principal naves. 



11. P. llltifolium, L. (excl. syn. Sloane, &c.) Culm (l°-2° high), 

 smooth ; the joints and the orifice of the throat or margins of the otherwise 

 smooth sheaths often bearded with soft woolly hairs ; leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate 

 from a heart-clasping base (often 1' wide), taper-pointed, 1 1 - 1 5-nerved, smooth, 

 or sparingly downy -hairy; panicle more or less exserted (2' -3' long), usually 

 long-peduncled, the branches spreading; spikelets obovate, 1^" long, downy; low- 

 er glume ovate, not half the length of the many-nerved upper one ; sterile flower 

 often (but not always) with 3 stamens. 1J. (P. Walteri, Poir.) — Moist thick- 

 ets; common. June -Aug. 



12. P. claililestSBltaill, L. Culm rigid (l°-3° high), very leafy to the 

 top, at length producing appressed branches, the joints naked; sheaths rough with 

 papilhe bearing very stiff and spreading bristly hairs; leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 from a heart-clasping base, very taper-pointed ; lateral panicles and usually also 

 the terminal panicle more, or less enclosed in the sheaths, or, in var. peduncuiA- 

 tum (P. pedunculatum, Ton:), with the terminal one at length long-peduncled : 



— otherwise resembling No. 11 ; but the spikelets more ovoid, often smooth; the 

 lower flawcr (always?) neutral. — Low thickets and river-banks; rather com- 

 mon. July - Sept. 



13. P. mics'OCias'pOBfi, Muhl. Culm and sheaths as in No. 11; the 

 broadly lanceolate leaves nearly similar, but longer in proportion and less point- 

 ed, not dilated at the rounded bristly-ciliatc base, very rough-margined, the up- 

 per surface roughish ; panicle soon exserted on a slender peduncle, very many- 

 flowered, narrowly oblong (3' -7' long) ; spikelets about £" long, ovoid, smooth 

 or smoothish ; lower glume orbicular and very small. 1J. (P. multiflorum, Z?#. ? 

 not of Poir.) — Dry or moist thickets, Pennsylvania and Michigan to Illinois, 

 and southward. July -Sept. 



14. P. xmiXhopliysuiU, Gray. Culm simple, or at length branched 

 near the base (9' -15' high); sheaths hairy; leaves lanceolate, very acute (4' -6' 

 long by J' wide), not dilated at. the ci/iate-bearded clasping base, smooth except the 

 margins, strongly 9-ll-nerved; panicle long-peduncled, simple, contracted, the ap- 

 pressed branches bearing few roundish-obovate spikelets (about 1|" long) ; lower 

 glume ovate, acutish, one third or half the length of the 9-nerved upper one. It, 



— Dry and sandy soil, Maine to Wisconsin, and northward; rare. June. — 

 Plant yellowish-green : spikelets minutely downy : sterile flower sometimes 

 staminate. 



15. P. viscitlum, Ell. Culms upright or ascending, at length much 

 branched, leafy to the top, densely velvety-downy all over, as also the sheaths, with 

 reflexed soft and often clammy hairs, except a ring below each joint ; leaves likewise 

 velvety all over, lanceolate (J' wide), 11 - \3-nerved ; panicles spreading, the lateral 

 ones included; spikelets obovate, 1" or 1|" long, downy; the roundish lower 

 glume scarcely one fourth the length of the 7-nerved upper one. — Damp soil, 

 S. New Jersey to Virginia, and southward. Aug. 



16. P. patlciflorilMl, Ell.? Culms upright, at length much branched 

 and reclining (l°-2° long), roughish; leaves lanceolate (3' -5' long by §'-%' wide), 

 rather faintly 9-nerved', hairy or smooth, fringed on the whoJc margin or next the 



