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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Fig. 228.— Distribution of P. lanuginosum. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Moist sandy woods, mostly near the coast, New Jersey to Florida and Texas. 

 New Jersey: Wildwood, Chase 3488, 3505, Heritage 6. 

 Delaware: Milton, Commons 342; Lewes, Hitchcock 387 '. 

 Maryland: Between Chesapeake Beach and Chesapeake Junction, Hitchcock 



1613, 1638. 

 Virginia: Dismal Swamp, Chase 3663, Tyler in 1905; Norfolk County, Kearney 



1559; Virginia Beach, Kearney 2043; Cape Henry, Chase 5426. 

 North Carolina: Chapel Hill, Ashe in 1898, Chase 3068, 3076; Raleigh, Chase 



3086; Wilsons Mills, Chase 



3107; Lake Mattamuskeet, 



Chase 3208; Scranton, Chase 



3201| ; Roanoke Island, Chase 



3221; Wilmington, Chase 4584, 



Hitchcock 388, 1468. 

 South Carolina: Orangeburg, 



Hitchcock 389, 390, 1395; Isle 



of Palms, Hitchcock 386, Chase 



4532; St. Helena Island, Cuth- 



6eriinl899. 

 Georgia: Stone Mountain, J. T>. 



Smith 48 in 1883; Millen, Cur- 



tiss 6827; Coney, Harper 1399; Burke County, Harper 765; Thomson, Bartlett 



1443, 1460. 

 Florida: Lake City, Bitting 8, 13, Chase 4277, 4292, Combs 174, 194, Hitchcock 



1032; Milton, Chase 4305, Owrtiss R; Madison County, Combs 215, 294; 



Gainesville, Chase 4242, Com&s 732; Eustis, Nash 375; Orange Bend, CAase 



4113; St. Andrews, Tracy 9138. 

 Alabama: Fort Morgan, Tracy 8399. 

 Mississippi: Biloxi, Chase 4331, Hitchcock 1079, Traq/ 1735, 2867, 3620, 3622, 



3645, 4580, 4605; Ocean Springs, Tracy 6469; Cat Island, Tracy & Lloyd 441; 



Horn Island, Tracy 2856; Jackson, Hitchcock 1297; Saratoga, Tracy 8416. 

 Louisiana: Shreveport, Hitchcock 1238, 1258; Cameron, Cocks 2191; Calcasieu, 



Coc£s 2193; Breton Island, Tracy & Lloyd 467; Alexandria, Ball 544; Lake 



Charles, Chase 4401, Hitchcock 1129, 1135, 1147, 1152. 

 Texas: Silver Lake, Reverchon 1884. 



127. Panicum acuminatum Swartz. 



Panicum acuminatum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 23. 1788. "Jamaica." In 

 his Flora a Swartz states concerning this species, "Incolit camp os arenosos Jamaicae 

 montosae." The type specimen, in the Swartz Herbarium, consists of three plants of 

 the prostrate autumnal form. 



Panicum dichotomum acuminatum Swartz; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 553. 1864. 

 Based on P. acuminatum Swartz. In the Grisebach Herbarium is a plant of this 

 species labeled by Grisebach, collected in Jamaica by March. 



Panicum comophyllum Nash, Bull.Torrey Club 30:380. 1903. "Type collected 

 in rich soil at Santurce [Porto Rico], January 9, 1899, by Heller, no. 12." The type, 

 in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, is a specimen in the early branch- 

 ing state. 



oFl. Ind. Occ. 1:152. 1797. 



