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autumnale Bosc., ee P. divergens Ell., collected by Beyrich “ad marginem 
Panicum 1 Kth. None of Kanth’s own specimens are represented, 
only a few from Curtiss's N. Am. Pl . 3583. 
Panicum ciliatifolium Kth. (Fig. 8.) The figured specimen was collected by 
IA Engelmann in North pne, and labeled P. ciliatum Eng. Specimens from 
E Carolina collected by Beyr agree with these, but all the specimens are 
entirely different from P. e e um, 
Panicum nitidum Lam. A chaos of species and varieties are named ** nitidum," or at 
least are placed in the same species cover. The following are to be found: P. 
commutatum Schult.; typical € 
identified as nitidum. P. HORE 
Miehx.; collected in Florida bes Ca- 
bit nis, Specimens from Carolina by 
Beyrieh agree with the Ae form 
n 
The specimens in Nees ab e 
herbarium represent the common, 
hairy form, eas I have found in 
Brookland, D. C. These specimens 
of N Esenbeck are from New 
Orleans, icons labeled: “P. nitidum 
var. villosum; P. pubescens Lam.; I 
villosum Ell." There are also in the 
hairy. Plant about 18 inches high. (Mus. 
Berol.) 
Herbarium Berolinense, but they represent more than one species. Engelma 
has collected some of the specimens, which are all spherocarpon, and on the label 
Elliott has written that the plant . be K pions tas Cabanis - a kapie 
men of laxiflorum, named sphærocarp Beyrich h fi 
mum, the same as occurs in oia, D. C., the pale form with hairy nodes that 
growsinshade. But Beyrich also has some true sphwrocarpon specimens which 
are labeled barbulatum. According to the Herbarium of igna the true 
barbulatum Lam. is nothing but the autumnal stage of P. dichotomum | 
ooloratum L. This qe resembles P. proliferum, but the specimens from 
