178 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Brushy slopes, southern Mexico and West Indies to Brazil. 

 Veracruz: Cordoba, Hitchcock 6424. 

 Panama: Taboga Island, Hitchcock 8085; Cclestine 87. 

 Cuba: Sancti Spiritus, Leon 828. Matanzas, Rugel 880. Madruga, Leon 3456. 



Campo Florido, Leon 4145, Manati, Leon 5684. Zaza del Sur, Sergius 2712. 



Triscornia, Tracy 9090. Woodfred, Shafe, 3020. Bahia Honda, Wilson 9411. 



Guanavaca, Wright 3474. Without locality, Wright 3887. 

 Jamaica: Two-mile Wood Pen, Harris 12065. New Forest, Amer. Gr. Nat. Huh. cos. 



Lititz, Harris 11657. Yardley Chase, Harris 9673. 

 Windward Islands: Barbados, Dash 603. 

 Trinidad: St. Joseph, Hitchcock 10180. Port of Spain, Hitchcock 9991; .-Imcr. Gr. 



Nat. Herb. 609. 

 Colombia: Santa Marta, Smith 2499. Puerto Colombia, Hitchcock 9926. 

 British Guiana: Without locality, Schomburgk 414. 

 Dutch Guiana: Zandery, Samuels in 1916. 

 Brazil: Bahia, Salzmann. 

 Paraguay: Central Paraguay, Morong 658. 



8. Chaetochloa verticillata (L.) Scribn. 



Panicum verticillatum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1: 82. 1762. "Habitat in Europa australi 

 & Oriente." 



Pennisetum verticillatum R. Br.; Poem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2: 488. 1817, as 

 synonym of Setaria verticillata. Brown says x in a note, " Hue [Pennisetum] per- 

 tinent Panicum viride, verticillatum, helvolum,'" but he does not make the combination. 

 Setaria verticillata Beauv. Ess. Agrost. 51, 178. 1812. Based on Panicum verti- 

 cillatum L. 

 f Setaria pseudoverticillata Fourn. Mex. PI. 2: 43. 1886. "San Luis de Potosi (Virl. 

 In. 1335 bis in herb. Mus. Paris)." This specimen has not been examined. The 

 description appears to apply to Chaetochloa verticillata. 



Chamaeraphis italica var. verticillata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 768. 1891. Based 

 on Panicum verticillatum L. 



Chamaeraphis verticillata Porter, Bull. Torrey Club 20: 196. 1893. Based on 

 Panicum verticillatum L. 



Ixophorus verticillatus Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 422. 1895. Based on Panicum 

 verticillatum L. 



Chaetochloa verticillata Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 4: 39. 1897. 

 Based on Panicum verticillatum L. 



Several other synonyms are given in European works. 



Schinz and Thellung 2 have applied the name Setaria panicea, based on Cynosurus 

 paniceus L. Sp. PI. 73. 1753, to this species. The description given by Linnaeus is 

 as follows: 



8. CYNOSURUS panicula subspicata, fiosculis simplicibus biaristatis. jxiniceus 

 Panicum fioribus ..onglomerato-spicatis laevibus arista dimidio 



brevioribus. Fl. suec. 54. 

 Panicum spica composita. aristis spica longioribus. Virid. cliff. 7. 



Roy. lugdb. 55. 

 Panicum spiculis spicatis scabritie adhaerentibus. Hor. cl. 27. 

 Gramen paoiceum, spica aspera. Bauh. pin. 8. Scheuch. gram. 47. 

 Habitat in Europae agris cultis. [Sign for annual.] 



1 Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1: 195. 1810. 



2 Vierteljahrs. Naturf. Ges. Zurich 53: 519. 1908. 



