GRASSES. 353 



Panicum pubescens Lam. Encycl. 4 : 748. 1797. HAIRY PAN ICUM. 



Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 :52, 1. 15, f. 58. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Tennessee, Florida, and Mis- 

 sissippi (?). 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry open woods. Cullman County. 

 Mobile County, Citronelle. Frequent; perennial. 



Type locality: "Basse-Caroline." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum laiiuginosura Ell. Sk. 1 : 123. 1817. WOOLLY-STEMMED PANICUM. 



Ell. 1. c. Chap. FL ed. 3, 586. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Copses, shady banks. Cullman 

 County. Chambers County (Baker 4- Earle}. Mobile County, Whistler, Springhill. 

 April, May; not common; perennial. 



Type locality: "Grows in Georgia. Sent to me by Dr. Baldwin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum villosissimum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 23 : 149. 1896. 



A rather stout, very hairy perennial, more or less tufted from a strong rootstock, 

 the rigid culms erect or ascending, 16 to 24 inches high, villous with long, ascending 

 hairs, barbed above the glabrous nodes; sheaths villous; stemleaveslinear-lauceolate, 

 2|- to 4 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, rounded at the base, erect-spreading, with 

 spreading hairs; panicle 2 to 3 inches long, equally broad, the numerous slender 

 branchlets fascicled; spikelets obovate, about 1 line long on slender pedicels. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to eastern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA : Lower Pine belt. Dry open woods. Mobile County, Springhill, May, 

 June ; not infrequent. 



Type locality: "Ocmulgee River swamp, below Macoii [Georgia]." (Dr. J. K. 

 Small.} 



Panicum sphaerocarpon Ell. Sk. 1 : 125. 1817. ROUND-FRUITED PANICUM. 



Chap. Fl. 667. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 32. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 506. 

 Scribner, Grass. Teun."2 : 50, 1. 13 J. 51, 52. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to eastern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Grassy swales and damp thickets. 

 Cullman County, 900 feet altitude. Dallas County, Marion Junction. Washington 

 County, Yellowpine. May, June; not infrequent ; perennial. 



Type locality : " Grows'in Georgia. Dr. Baldwin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum polyanthes Schult. Mant. 2 : 257. 1824. SMALL-FRUITED PANICUM. 



Panicum mic-rocarpon Muhl. Gram. 111. 1817. Not Ell. 1817. 



P. multiflorum Ell. Sk. 1 : 122. 1817. Not Poir. 1816. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 633. Chap. Fl. 576. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 32. Coulter, 

 Contr' Nat. Herb. 2 : 506. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 50, t. 14, f. 53. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New York to Michigan, Missouri, and Tennessee, 

 and from New Jersey to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Damp grassy open places. May; frequent; perennial. 



Type locality : " Grows in shaded, dry soils [South Carolina and Georgia]." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum scoparium Lam. Encycl. 4 : 744. 1797. 



Panicum scoparium var. major Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3 : 31. 



P. scoparium genuinum Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 48. 1894. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 119. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 632. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 507. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario west to British Columbia and Oregon ; 

 New England west to Nebraska and south to Florida, thence to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA : All over the State. Shaded grassy banks, dry woods, copses. Cullman 

 and Tuscaloosa counties. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County. April 

 to June; frequent; perennial. 



Type locality : " Basse Caroline." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum scribnerianum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22 : 421. 1895. 



SCRIBNER'S PANICUM. 



Panicum scoparium minor Scribner, Bull. Univ. Tenu. 7 : 48. 1894. Not P. capillare 

 minus Muhl. 1817. 

 Panicum scoparium Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 632. 1890. Not Lam. 1797. 



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