350 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



H inches long, long-exserted, oval, the branches ascending; spikelets numerous, 

 small, obovate. 



This is regarded by W. W. Ashe as P. enai folium Bald. 1 Collected at Chapel 

 Hill, N. C. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina to Georgia and Florida. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low pine barrens in sandy loam. Mobile County, Suin- 

 merville, June, 1899. Infrequent. 



Type locality : "In the low pine land at Eustis, Lake County, Florida. 1 ' (Xaali, 

 1894, No. 925.) 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum trifolium Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 580. 1899. 



A cespitose, smoothish, slender perennial, the mostly simple culm 8 to 16 inches 

 high; stem leaves usually 3, the uppermost a little below the panicle, firm, erect, 

 narrowly lanceolate, with the margins cartilaginous-thickened, serrulate, from J to 2 

 inches long; basal leaves numerous, about 2 inches long; panicle more or less exserted, 

 broadly ovate, 1 to 2 inches long, with slender ascending branches, spikelets elliptical, 

 densely pubescent. 



Carolinian and Louisiauian areas. North Carolina to western Florida. 



ALABAMA : Metamorphic hills to Coast plain. Damp woods. Lee County, Auburn 

 (Baker $ Earle). Central Alabama (Buckley). Mobile County. April; not frequent, 



Type locality : "Ocmulgee River swamp, below Macon, Ga." (Dr. J. K. JSmull, 

 1895.) 



Related to P. albo-marginatum, but distinguished by the thinner leaves without 

 white margins and the more slender culm. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum lucidum Ashe, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Soc. 15 : 47. 1898. 



A cespitose, slender, glabrous perennial, the weak culms reclining; sheaths ciliate 

 at the margin; leaves spreading, 1 inch or less long, narrowly lanceolate, very acute, 

 rather distant ; panicle more or less exserted, 1 inches long, with spreading branches ; 

 spikelets elliptic, acute. 



Louisianian area. North Carolina. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. Damp woods. Mobile County. May; infrequent. 



Type locality: "Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina." ( W. W. Ahc, 1898.) 



Panicum curtifolium Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 569. 1899. 



A tufted glabrous perennial, with weak culms 8 to 12 inches high, finally much 

 branched ; sheaths usually about one- third as loug as the interuodes, sparsely pubes- 

 cent; stem leaves 3 or 4, widely spreading, short, scarcely over 8 lines long, tho basal 

 leaves 1 to 2 inches long; panicle considerably exserted, broadly ovate, its slightly 

 hispid branches widely spreading; spikelets elliptic, glabrous. 



Louisianian area. Western Florida (?) to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Central Pine belt. Coast plain. Boggy borders of pine-barren st reams. 

 Tuscaloosa County (Dr. E. A. Smith). Mobile County (T. H. Kearney, July, 18H9). 



Type locality : ' Ocean Springs, Mies." (S. M. Tracy, 1898.) 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum paucipilum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 573. 1899. 



A tufted, almost glabrous, tall perennial with the sparingly branched culm from 2 

 to 3 feet high; stem leaves 5 to 8, erect, firm, sometimes minutely puberulcnt on 

 the lower surface, usually with a few hair-bearing papillae at the base, from 2 to 

 3 inches long and 3 to 5 lines wide; panicle exserted, rather dense, oblong, from 

 2 to 4 inches long, its branches erect; spikelets small, numerous, oval, pubescent. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of New Jersey. Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Coast plain. Mobile County. 



Type locality : " Wild wood, N. J." (E. P. Bicknell, May 30, 1897.) 



Panicum longipedunculatum Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 53, 1. 16, f. 61. 1894. 



A small pubescent somewhat clustered pale-green perennial, tho slender culms 

 6 to 10 inches high, with a few distant erect-spreading lanceolate leaves, nar- 

 rowed to the roundish base, 2 to 3 lines wide, soft-pubescent on both sides and ciliate 

 on the margin; basal leaves numerous, pubescent and ciliate; panicle about 2 inches 

 long, oval, the axis and branchlets villous-pubesoeut, the fascicled, slender branches 

 spreading; spikelets small, line long, obtuse. 



Carolinian and Louisiauiau areas. Tennessee, North Carolina, (Roanoke Island) to 

 Florida. 



1 Jouru. Elisha Mitch. Soc., Vol. 15, p. 46. 



