354 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



P. pauciflorum Gray, Man. 613. 1848. Not Ell. 1817. 



Britt. and Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 118. 



Culm erect, from 8 to 20 inches high, sparingly pubescent; sheaths papillose- 

 pilose; leaves acuminate, rounded or truncate at the base, smooth above, glabrous 

 beneath, spreading; panicle small, spreading, and, like the spikelets, glabrous or 

 hairy; spikelets turgid, obovoid, about H lines long. 



In our specimens the panicle and spikelets are hairy. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Maine, Ontario, and Minnesota, south to Vir- 

 ginia and Tennessee, west to Kansas and Arizona. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Grassy banks. Culluiau County. June; rare. 



Type locality: "Middle Tennessee (Gattinger)." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



Panicum oligosanthes Schult. Mant. 2 : 256. 1824. 



Panicum pauciflorum Ell. Sk. 1 : 120. 1817. Not R. Br. 1811. 



P. 8coparium pauciflortim (Ell.) Scribner, Grass. Teiin. 2 : 48, 1. 12, f. 46. 1894. 



Chap. Fl. 575. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Illinois, South Carolina to Florida 

 and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast Pine belt. Thickets, shady borders of woods 

 in light soil. Lee County, Auburn (Baker if Earle). Washington County, Yellow- 

 pine. Mobile and Baldwin counties. May, June ; not rare. 



Type locality: " Grows in close damp soils. In Georgia, not very rare." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum viscidum Ell. Sk. 1 : 123. 1817. VISCID PANIC GRASS. 



Panicum scoparium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 49. 1803. Not Lam. 



Gray, Man.ed. 6, 632. Chap. Fl. 575. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:32. Coulter, 

 Coutr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 507. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 46, 1. 11, f. 44. 



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

 ern Missouri, and Tennessee. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills, Central Pine belt to Coast plain. 

 Damp thickets, borders of woods. Lee County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle). Tusca- 

 loosa County (E. A. Smith). Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile and Baldwin 

 counties. July to August; not common; perennial. 



Type locality: "Grows in damp close soils [South Carolina and Georgia].'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum scabriusculum Ell. Sk. 1 : 121. 1817. 



Chap. Fl. 576. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:33. Coulter, Confer. Nat. Herb. 

 2:507. 



Louisiauian area. Southeastern North Carolina, Mississippi, and eastern Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Shaded borders of ditches and ponds. Mobile County, 

 Ragg's swamp, foot of Springhill. Baldwin County, Bayou Ingram. April, May; 

 infrequent; perennial. 



Type locality: " Sent to me from Savannah by Dr. Baldwin." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum commutatum Schult. Mant. 2 : 242. 1824. VARIABLE PANICUM. 



Panicum nervosum Muhl. Gram. 116. 1817. Not Lam. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 122. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 632. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 584. Coulter, CJontr. Nat. 

 Herb. 2 : 507. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2 : 49, 1. 13, f. 50. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario, New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and 

 Tennessee to Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri/ 



ALABAMA: Over the State in shady woods; common. April, May. Perennial. 



Type locality not distinctly given. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Panicum mattamusketense Ashe, Jonrn. Elisha Mitch. Soc. 15 : 45. 1898. 



An erect, rather stout perennial, the strict culm 2 to 4 feet high, barbed at the 

 nodes; lower leaves and sheaths soft-pubescent, the upper glabrous; leaves lanceo- 

 late, 3 to 5 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, spreading; panicle 3 to 5 inches long, long- 

 peduncled with numerous clustered branches; spikelets ellipsoid, glabrous, pointed, 

 fully 1 line long, first glume one-third the length of spikelet. 



Carolinian ( f ) and Lonisiauiau areas. North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt. Shaded damp to wet places, margin of springs. Tus- 

 caloosa County (Dr. E. A. Smith). Buckley, locality not given. Our plants differ 

 from the typical material only in the smooth nodes and somewhat shorter leaves. 



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



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



