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Panicum scribnerianum Nash. Scribner's Panic Grass. 



Panicum scribnerianum Nash, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club XXII. 421. 1895. 



New name for P. scoparium minor Scrib. [nee P. capillare minor Muhl.] 



[Wysox, Pa.].— Keller and Brown 37. 

 Panicum scoparium Button, 280. 



Restricted to the Middle district and certain localities in the 

 northern counties. Locally common in dry, sandy ground. 

 Named for Prof. F. Lamson Scribner, the well known agros- 

 tologist, who was for some years an active student of the flora 

 of Philadelphia and vicinity and who first mounted and arranged 

 the North American grasses in the herbarium of the Philadelphia 

 Academy. 



PI. — Late May to early July. 



Middle District. — Crosswicks Creek, Delanco, Riverside, Woodbury, Gren- 

 loch, Lawnside (S), Collingswood (S), Medford (S), Mt. Holly, Swedes- 



boro. 



Panicum oligosanthes Schultes. Few-fruited Panic Grass. 



Panicum oligosanthes Schultes, Mant. II. 256. 1824. [New name for P. 

 pauciAorum Ell.- — .Georgia] . 



Known only from the Middle, Pine Barren and Cape May dis- 

 tricts, where I have collected it in sandy soil at several localities. 

 Previously it was not known north of Delaware. 



PI. — Early June to mid-July. 



Middle District. — Medford, Lawnside (S). 

 Pine Barrens. — Atsion (H&C). 

 Cape May. — Bennett. 



Panicum scoparium Lam. Velvety Panic Grass. 



Panicum scoparium Lamark, Encycl. VII. 744. 1797 [S. Carolina]. — Keller 



and Brown 27- 

 Panicum viscidum Britton 281. 



Common in moist ground along the entire coast marshes and 

 up the Delaware River at least to Camden, following the larger 

 streams into the limits of the Middle and Pine Barren districts at 

 several points. 



Its large size and dense velvety pubescence serve to dis- 

 tinguis'h it. 



PL — Early July to late August. 



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