Fig. 365, PANICUM POLYANTHES Schultes, Mant. 2: 257. 1824. (P. mu 
tiflorum Ell. 1817. Not Poir. ie £ microcarpon Muhl. June, 1817. Not ex 
Ell. Jan. 1817.)—A toi finally sparingly branched, sanum 
Pareno. -A din. 250 hgh. i h broad, spreen leaves, many-flowered 
panicles, 7-18 em. (3’-7’) long, and ke tely pubescent, nearly a spike- 
lets (a,b, e) about 1.5 mm. (4% long. re ligule none; upper lea 
longer than Lo lower ones 12-25 em. (5’-10’) long, lanceolate from a in 
pin o ciliate base, First glume minute, the second and third 7-nerved; the 
s eem hyaline palea; flowering glume (d) shining, round-ovoid, 
. Dry, open woodlands and occasionally in open gro rounds, New York 
"pend to Florida and westward to Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas. June 
Panicum microcarpon Ell. is P. barbulatum Michx. as now understood. 
