may extend throughout all the States and even to other 

 countries. 



The genus Blepharoneuron Nash is here recognized, 

 while Stapfla Davy is referred to Anthochloa Nees. A 

 few species are here published for the first time, and a 

 number of those recently described as new, particularly 

 of the genus Panicum, are included more for the pur- 

 pose of calling attention to them than as an expression 

 of the acceptance of their validity. In the two parts 

 eighty-seven species of Panicum are illustrated, many 

 of them by drawings made from type specimens. 



For information concerning the forage or other 

 economic values of the species described, reference is 

 made to previously published bulletins of the Division, 

 especially to Bulletin No. 14. The illustrations are of 

 the same character as in American Grasses — I (Bul- 

 letin No. 7), and have been executed by the same artists. 

 Bespectfully, 



F. Lamson-Scribner, 



Agrostoloc/ist. 



Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



