346 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



TROPICAL AFRICA, ASIA, WKST INDIES, SOUTH AMERICA. 

 Louisianian area. Florida, Texas. 



ALABAMA: Advent! ve on ballast. Mobile, July, 1891. Perennial. 

 Type locality : Jamaica. 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



P ANICUM L. Sp. PI. 1 : 55. 1753. 



Over 300 distinct species, mostly perennials, of temperate and warm regions, both 

 hemispheres, largely of the warmer parts of America, from New England to Brazil. 

 North America, over 100 species. 



Panicum digitarioides Carpenter; M. A. Curtis, Am. Journ. Sci. ser. 2, 7 : 410. 1849. 

 As synonym. MAIDEN CANE. 



Panicum curtisii Chap. Fl. 573. 1860. 



Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain and Littoral belt. Marshes. Mobile County. August to 

 October; frequent. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Around Wilmington, N. C." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum texanum Buck., Prel. Rep. Geol. & Agric. Surv. Tex. 1866. 



TEXAS MILLET. 



Vasey, Bull U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. 25, 1. 10. Coulter. Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 503. 



Louisianian area. Texas. 



ALABAMA: Adventive with seed oats in cultivated ground. Mobile County. Lee 

 County, Auburn. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Austin, Texas." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum stenodes Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 547. 1864. 



P. anceps var. Htrictum Chap. Fl. 573. 1860. 



Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 583. 



Perennial from a stout rhizoma, 2 feet high; culm wiry, terete, perfectly smooth; 

 leaves narrowly linear, rigid, erect; panicle mostly terminal, narrow, the filiform 

 branchlets closely adpressed or more or less spreading; spikelets small, straight, 

 acute, on longer or shorter pedicels, crowded mostly on one side of the rachis. 



Described by Grisebach as an annual plant. 



WEST INDIES TO BRAZIL. 



Louisianian area. Florida, along the coast to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Wet sandy ground. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Bor- 

 der of pine barren ponds. 



Type locality: " Hab. Jamaica! * * * Trinidad! * * [Cuba!; Brazil!]." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum prostratum Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 171. 1791. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 666. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 27. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 546. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL, EGYPT, ARABIA TO EAST INDIES, AND AUS- 

 TRALIA. 



Louisianian area. Louisiana, adventive from the tropics. 



ALABAMA: A waif on ballast ground; rare. Mobile. August; perennial. 



Type locality : "Ex insulis Caribaeis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum fasciculatum Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 1 : 145. 1797. 



Panicum fuscum var. faaciculatum Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 547. 1864. 



Griseb. 1. c. 



TROPICAL AMERICA. 



Louisianian area. 



ALABAMA : Adventive. Mobile County. Fugitive on ballast, August 10, 1891. 

 Annual. 



Type locality West Indian. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum grossarium L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 871. 1758-59. JAMAICA CRAB GRASS. 



Scribner, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 7 : 61, t. 43. 

 Stout perennial with the culm creeping at the base and rooting at the joints, 



