12 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Wood borders, in partial shade, Trinidad, 

 Trinidad : Port of Spain, Amer. Or. Nat. Herb. 586, 587 ; Bot. Oard. Herb. 3182. 

 St. Anne, Crueger 77. St. Joseph, Hitchcock 10178, 10179, 10191. Piarco 

 Savanna, Hitchcock 10357. Pitch Lake, Bot. Gard. Herb. 2299. 



Explanation of Plate 9. — Ichnanthus ichnodes. Specimen from St. Joseph, Trinidad, 

 Hitchcock 10179 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 916898). Natural size. 



DOUBTFUL OE EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Panicum scHLECHTENDAjfoi Fourn. ; Heinsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3 : 496. 

 1885, a name only ; Fourn. Mex. PI. 2 : 22, 30. 1886. " P. pallens Schlecht . . . 

 non Sw." No description except the few characters given in the key. These 

 point to /. nemorosus. 



Panicum schlechtenda^lii var. monstrosum Fourn. Mex. PI. 2: 31. 1886. 

 " Mirador (Gal. n. 5689)." Galeotti's specimen in the Paris Herbarium is a 

 plant with abnormal spikelets. Probably /. pallens. 



Ichnanthus apiculatus Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Circ. 30: 1. 

 1901. This is Panicum cordoveme Fourn. 



