Fig. 322.— Distribution of P. oligosanthcs. 



HITCHCOCK AND CHASE NORTH AMERICAN PANICUM. 287 



Delaware: Seaford, Commons in 1882; Greenbank, Commons in 1883; Lewes, 



Hitchcock 419, 582. 

 District of Columbia: Steele in 1899. 

 Virginia: Fort Monroe, Vasey in 1878 and 1883; Cape Henry, Chase 2912, 5435, 



Kearney 1400; Virginia Beach, Hitchcock 581, Kearney 1386, Williams 3110. 

 North Carolina: Wilmington, Hitchcock 418, 1457, 1459, 1460. 

 South Carolina: Aiken, Hitchcock 580, Ravenelii). 1867, Scribner in 1894; Sumter, 



Hitchcock 579 ; Orangeburg, 



Hitchcock 20, 1410. 

 Georgia: Augusta, Cuthbert 1121, 



1167, Kearney 216; Clarke 



County, Harper 146; Stone 



Mountain, Hitchcock 417. 

 Florida: Jacksonville, Curtiss 



5864; Lake City, Chase 4276, 



4283, Combs 163, Hitchcock 



1014; Tallahassee, Combs 382; 



Gainesville, Cta 4207, 4260, 



Combs 742. 

 Alabama: Flomaton, Hitchcock 



1055. 

 Mississippi: Columbus, Traq/ in 1896; Starkville, Tracy 1754; Waynesboro, 



Kearney 191; Biloxi, Traq/ 3647; Mississippi City, Hitchcock 1106. 

 Arkansas: Benton County, Plank 73. 

 Louisiana: Calhoun, Ball 64, Hitchcock 1263, 1274£, 1293. 

 Texas: Dallas County, Reverchon 1841; Denison, 5e66 1389, 1426; Grand Saline, 



Reverchon 4142; Silver Lake, Reverchon 1840; Waller, Hitchcock 1194, Thurow 



in 1898 and 1899; Houston, i?e&& 1245, Nealley in 1887; without locality, 



Wh>fa (Gray Herb.). 

 Oklahoma: Sapulpa, .BusTi 1225. 



173. Panicum ravenelii Scribn. & Merr. 



Panicum scoparium major[us] Vasey, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. 8 : 32. 1889 

 The author states, "We have only seen this from South Carolina (Dr. Ravenel)." 

 The type, in the National Herbarium, consists of three immature vernal culms. 



Panicum scoparium genuinum Scribn. Tenn. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 7: 48. 1894. 

 "P. scoparium Lam., Ell." is cited, and, as it is evident that Scribner is designating 

 Elliott's as the genuine P. scoparium, Elliott's specimen is considered the type. 



Panicum ravenelii Scribn. & Merr. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 24 : 36. 1901. 

 Published as a new name for "Panicum scoparium of Ell. Sk. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1 : 

 119. 1817. Not Lam. Encycl. 4: 744. 1797." The type, in the Elliott Herbarium, 

 is a single vernal culm with an immature panicle. No locality is cited by Elliott, 

 and none is given on the label;, the specimen is presumably from South Carolina. 



This species was referred to Panicum scoparium by Elliott, as stated above, and also 

 by Chapman. « 



DESCRIPTION. 



Vernal form in loose tufts, grayish olive green; culms 30 to 70 cm. high, erect or 

 ascending, densely papillose-hirsute with ascending hairs, the nodes short-bearded; 

 sheaths shorter than the long lower internodes, about equaling the short upper ones or 

 overlapping, papillose-hirsute like the culm; ligules 3 to 4 mm. long; blades thick, 

 ascending or spreading, 8 to 15 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, sharply acuminate, rounded 



aFl, South. U. S.575. 1860. 



