PANICE.E. 81 



alike, the former T-O-nerved, the latter with 3 obscure nerves near 

 each margin. 



Florida, A. If. ('inii\s d5C,2.* 



22. (2) Paspalum L. Syst. Ed. 10. j>:85o (1759). 



S'(i0.s(i/j Aihms. Fam. 2:31 (irUo). 



Ckaclnic IJoIaud. IJottb. Act. Lit. Univ. Ilafu. 1:285 (1778). 



Cercsia Pers. 8yii. 1: 8o (1805). 



J.rnjinpiis Hcauv. Agrost. 12 (1812). 



Cabrvra Lag. Gt'U. ot Sp. Nov. 5 (181G). 



raspdhoitltinm Desv. Opusc. 59 (18;51). 



Ma'ur/iid Weiidor. Steud. Norn. ed. (2). 2: 153 (1841). 



A)i((c/ii/ris Noes. Ilook. Kew Jouni. 2: 103 (1850). 



MaiziUa Seldecht. Bot. Zeit. 8:001 (1850). 



An(tsh-(>pliuH^i!\\\w\\i. Hot. Zeit. 8:(J8l (1850). 



Cyinatovhloa Sdilecht. Bot. Zeit. 12:821 (185-1). 



L((pp(if/()pKis Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. 112 (1855). 



Wirtip'iiia Xees. Doell. Mart. Fl. Bras. (2) 2:40 (1877). 



Spikelets I llowereil, not awned, usually [)laiio-eonvex in 1 or 2 

 single or double rows, on sliort pedicels. fJluines 3. the two outer 

 ones eni]>ty. usually membranous and equal or nearly so, the third 

 or tloral of a tluniu'r texture; palea witliin tlie floral glume, firm, 

 snudler. nearly Hat. Stamens 3. Styles distinct, ratlu'r long. 

 Grain eiu'losed. but not adlierent. Some spikelets of some species, 

 us P. distich HI)}, have an additional small glume on the Hat side, 

 thus serving to unite this gjuus witli Patucio)). 



A large tropical and subtropical genus of about IHO species, 

 especially abundant in America; also found in Africa, Asia, a few 

 in Australia, and two in Fiirope. The species vary much in habit, 

 though in North America many of tliem grow on smuly land. 

 Most of them are not hardy in the Nortliern Slates. 



CoMsidei'ing its great size, the genus is very well defined, and 

 readily distinguisjicd from Pdin'cuni \)y the inflorescence, and by the 

 technical character of tlie absence of the fb'st emi)ty ylumc. 

 Neitlier of these characters is absohitely constant. A few Pinii<it 

 of the section linirliiiwia liave the infioresccnce i>f Pt/s/xiJini) ,- niid 

 tlie lowest ghime is fre(iuently reduced to a oiuall callus, or is 



