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CONTRIBUTIONS FEOM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



pedicels usually with a few long hairs at the summit; spikelets 2.2 to 2.8 mm. long, 

 0.8 to 1 mm. wide, narrowly ovate, pointed; first glume clasping, half as long as the 

 spikelet or more, 1-nerved, glabrous or 

 obscurely strigose toward the summit; 

 second glume and sterile lemma equal, 

 exceeding the fruit, 5 to 7-nerved, 

 glabrous; fruit 1.7 to 1.8 mm. long, 

 about 0.8 mm. wide. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Margins of swamps and wet places 

 in flat woods and pine barrens near 

 the coast, Georgia to Florida and west 

 to Texas; also in the Bahamas and 

 Cuba. 



Georgia: Cobb, Harper 1045; Ruskin, Richer 908. 



Florida: Jacksonville, Curtiss 3579 in part, 4035, 5083; Kearney 139; Baldwin, 

 Combs 6 1, Nash 2249; De Funiak Springs, Combs 476; Apalachicola, Chapman; 

 Pensacola, Combs 530; Avondale, Combs 487; Jupiter, Curtiss 5576C; Chipley, 

 Combs 574, 619; Grasmere, Combs 1112; Tampa, Garber in 1877; Braidentown, 

 Combs 1266; Myers, Chase 4187, Hitchcock Lee Co. PI. 492; without locality, 

 Chapman, Garber in 1878, Simpson in 1889. 

 Alabama: Mobile, Kearney 50 in part, Mohr in 1884, 1893, and 1894. 

 Mississippi: Ocean Springs, Kearney 293, Tracy 26; Horn Island, Tracy in 1898. 

 Louisiana: Without locality, Hale (Gray Herb.). 

 Texas: Nona, Nealley in 1892; without locality, Nealley in 1884. 

 Bahamas: Andros, Brace 7019, 7132 (both in Field Mus. Herb.). 

 Cuba: Pinar del Rio, Wright 3870 in part; Herradura, Hitchcock 154, Tracy 9080. 



Fig. 90.— Distribution of P. ienerum. 



49. Panicum stenodes Griseb. 



Panicumstenodes Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 047. 1864. "Har. Jamaica!, Pd. [Purdie], 

 in savannahs, Manchester." The type specimen, bearing data as published, is in 

 the Kew Herbarium. 



Panicum hians Spruce; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 548. 1864, not Ell. 1816. This 

 name is given as a synonym of P. stenodes and credited to ''PI. Spruce." We have 

 not seen Spruce's specimen and the name is here referred to P- 

 stenodes on the authority of Grisebach. 



description. 



Plants in small tufts, 25 to 50 cm. high, glabrous throughout; 

 culms erect or reclining, very slender and wiry, producing 

 from the middle nodes slender branches about equaling the 

 main culm, both this and the branches bearing small, solitary 

 or fascicled panicles from the upper nodes; sheaths very short, 

 about 1 to 2 cm. long; blades 1 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 2 mm. wide, 

 the upper often reduced to mere points, erect, firm, involute; panicles short-exserted, 

 the lateral often partly included, 1 to 2 cm. long, 1 to 2 mm. wide, subracemose; 

 spikelets 1.4 to 1.6 mm. long, about 0.7 mm. wide, elliptic, rather turgid; first glume 

 about half the length of the spikelet, blunt, nerveless or 1-nerved; second glume 

 and sterile lemma equal, scarcely exceeding the fruit, 5-nerved; fruit 1.3 mm. 

 long, 0.6 mm. wide. 



This species is distinguished from P. tenerum by its more slender culms, numerous 

 branches, and smaller panicles of smaller spikelets. 



Fig. 91 . — P. stenodes. 

 From Wright's no. 192 

 in Grisebach Herba- 

 rium. 



