298 HARPER 



P. hemitomon Schult., Mant. 2 : 227. 1824. Maiden Cane. 



Brachiaria digitarioides (Carpenter) Nash; Britton, Manual 

 77. 1901. (For other synonyms see Merrill, Circ. Div. Agrost. 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. 35 : 5. 1901.) 



Open branch-swamps and adjacent moist pine-barrens, cof- 

 fee, wilcox, Irwin, dooly, worth. Fl. June. More 

 abundant in some other parts of South Georgia, especially 

 in Okefinokee Swamp. 



Delaware to Florida and Texas, in the coastal plain. 

 P. melicarium Mx. Fl. 1 : 50. 1803. 



Steinchisma hians (Ell.) Raf. ; Seringe, Bull. Bot. Soc. Genev. 

 1 : 220. 1830. (fide Ind. Kew.) 



Moist pine-barrens or oftener along damp sandy roadsides, 

 perhaps not indigenous, bulloch (838), wilcox, col- 

 quitt. 



North Carolina to South Florida, Missouri, and Texas, in the 

 coastal plain. Also in the tropics. 



OPLISMENUS Beauv., Fl. Owar. et Benin 2 : 14. pi. 68. f. I. 1807. 

 0. setarius (Lam.) R. & S., Syst. 2 1484. 1817. 



Panicum Nuttallianum Steud., Nomencl. ed. 2. 2: 260. 1841. 



telfair: Ocmulgee River swamp near Lumber City, Sept. 11, 



1903. Widely distributed over the coastal plain of Georgia, 



but most frequent in the upper third. Fl. Aug.-Oct. 



South Carolina to "South Florida and Texas, nearly confined 



to the coastal plain, though a shade-loving species. 



ECHINOCHLOA Beauv. 

 E. colona (L.) Link, Hort. Berol. 2 : 209. 1833. 



Railroad yard, Tifton, Oct. 2, 1902. More common in the 



older cities of Georgia. 

 Widely distributed in the Southeastern United States, also in 

 the tropics, where it doubtless originated. 



AKTELffiNANTIA Beauv., Agrost. 48. 181 2. 

 A. villosa (Mx.) Beauv., Agrost. 111. 8. pi. 10. f. 7. 181 2. 



Dry pine-barrens and sand-hills, irwin, berrien (1686), 

 colquitt. Fl. Aug.-Oct. Also in Richmond (A. Cuthbert), 

 Sumter, and Brooks Counties. 



