350 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
14 inches long, long-exserted, oval, the branches ascending; spikelets numerous, 
small, obovate. 
This is regarded by W. W. Ashe as P. ensifolium Bald.’ Collected at Chapel 
Hill, N.C. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina to Georgia and Florida. ‘ 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low pine barrens in sandy loam. Mobile County, Sum- 
merville, June, 1899. {[nfrequent. : 
Type locality: ‘‘In the low pine land at Eustis, Lake County, Florida.” (Nash, 
1894, No. 925.) 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Panicum trifolium Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26:580. 1899. 
A cespitose, smoothish, slender perennial, the mostly simple culm 8 to 16 inches 
high; stem leaves usually 3, the uppermost a little below the panicle, firm, erect, 
narrowly lanceolate, with the margins cartilaginous-thickened, serrulate, from } to 2 
incheslong; basal leaves numerous, about2inches long; panicle more or less exserted, 
broadly ovate, 1 to 2 inches long, with slender ascending branches, spikelets elliptical, 
densely pubescent. : 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to western Florida. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills to Coast plain. Damp woods. Lee County, Auburn 
(Baker § Larle). Central Alabama (Buckley). Mobile County. April; not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Ocmulgee River swamp, below Macon, Ga.” (Dr. J. A. Small, 
1895. 
Related to P.albo-marginatum, but distinguished by the thinner leaves without 
white margins and the more slender culm. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum lucidum Ashe, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Soc.15:47. 1898. 
A cespitose, slender, glabrous perennial, the weak culms reclining; sheaths ciliate 
at the margin; leaves spreading, 1 inch or less long, narrowly lanceolate, very acute, 
rather distant; panicle more or less exserted, 14 inches long, with spreading branches; 
spikelets elliptic, acute. 
Louisianian area. North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Damp woods. Mobile County. May; infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina.” (IV. W. Ashe, 1898.) 
Panicum curtifolium Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26:569. 1899. 
A tufted glabrous perennial, with weak culms 8 to 12 inches high, finally much 
branched; sheaths usually about one-third as long as the internodes, sparsely pubes- 
cent; stem leaves 3 or 4, widely spreading, short, scarcely over 8 lines long, the basal 
leaves 14 to 2 inches long; panicle considerably exserted, broadly ovate, ita slightly 
hispid branches widely spreading; spikelets elliptic, glabrous. 
Louisianian area. Western Florida (?) to Mississippi: 
ALABAMA: Central Pine belt. Coast plain. Boggy borders of pine-barren streams. 
Tuscaloosa County (Dr, i. A. Smith). Mobile County (7. H. Kearney, July, 1849). 
Type locality: ‘‘ Ocean Springs, Miss.” (S. M. Tracy, 1898.) 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum paucipilum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 26:573. 1899. 
A tufted, almost glabrons, tall perennial with the sparingly branched culm from 2 
to 3} feet high; stem leaves 5 to 8, erect, firm, sometimes minutely puberulent on 
the lower surface, usually with a few hair-bearing papillae at the base, from 24 to 
34 inches long and 3 to 5 lines wide;'panicle exserted, rather dense, oblong, from 
2 to 4 inches Jong, its branches erect; spikelets small, numerous, oval, pubescent. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of New Jersey. Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Mobile County. 
Type locality: ‘‘Wildwood,N.J.” (i. P. Bicknell, May 30, 1897.) 
Panicum longipedunculatum Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:53, t. 16, f. 61. 1894. 
A small pubescent somewhat clustered pale-green perennial, the slender culms 
6 to 10 inches high, with a few distant erect-spreading lanceolate leaves, nar- 
rowed to the roundish base, 2 to 3 lines wide, soft-pubescent on both sides and ciliate 
on the margin; basal leaves numerous, pubescent and ciliate; panicle about 2 inches 
long, oval, the axis and branchlets villous-pubescent, the fascicled, slender branches 
spreading; spikelets small, } line long, obtuse. 
ce and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, North Carolina (Ro:noke Island) to 
orida. 
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