GRASSES. 3538 
Panicum pubescens Lam. Encycl. 4:748. 1797. Harry Panicum. 
Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:52, t. 15, f. 58. 
_Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Tennessee, Florida, and Mis- 
sissippi (?). 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry open woods. Cullman County. 
Mobile County, Citronelle. Frequent; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘“Basse-Caroline.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum lanuginosum Ell. Sk. 1:123. 1817. WOOLLY-STEMMED PaNICUM. 
Ell.l.c. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 586. i 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi. 
ALaBaMa: Mountain region to Coast plain. Copses, shady banks. Cullman 
County. Chambers County (Baker § Earle). Mobile County, Whistler, Springhill. 
April, May; not common; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Grows in Georgia. Sent to me by Dr. Baldwin.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum villosissimum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 23:149. 1896. 
A rather stout, very hairy perennial, more or less tufted from a strong rootstock, 
the rigid culms erect or ascending, 16 to 24 inches high, villous with long, ascending 
hairs, barbed above the glabrous nodes; sheaths villous; stem leaves linear-lanceolate, 
24 to 4 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, rounded at the base, erect-spreading, with 
spreading bairs; panicle 2} to 34 inches long, equally broad, the numerous slender 
branchlets fascicled; spikelets obovate, about 1 line long on slender pedicels. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to eastern Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt. Dry open woods. Mobile County, Springhill, May, 
June; not infrequent. 
un) locality: ‘‘Ocmulgee River swamp, below Macon [Georgia].” (Dr. J. K. 
Small. 
Panicum sphaerocarpon Ell. Sk.1:125. 1817. ROUND-FRUITED PANICUM. 
Chap. Fl. 667. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:32. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:506. 
Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:50, t, 18, f. 51, 52. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey to Florida, west to eastern Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Grassy swales and damp thickets. 
Cullman County, 900 feet altitude. Dallas County, Marion Junction. Washington 
Couuty, Yellowpine. May, June; not infrequent; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Grows in Georgia. Dr. Baldwin.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum polyanthes Schult. Mant. 2: 257. 1824. SMALL-FRUITED PANICUM. 
Panicum microcarpon Muhl. Gram.111. 1817. Not Ell. 1817. 
P. multiflorum Ell. Sk. 1:122. 1817. Not Poir. 1816. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 633. Chap. Fl. 576. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb.3:32. Coulter, 
Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:506. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2: 50, ¢. 74, f. 53. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New York to Michigan, Missouri, and Tennescee, 
and from New Jersey to Florida and Louisiana, 
ALABAMA: OvertheState. Dampgrassy open places. -May; frequent; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in shaded, dry soils [South Carolina and Georgia].” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum scoparium Lam. Encycl. 4: 744. 1797. 
Panicum scoparium var. major Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:31. 
P. scoparium genuinum Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:48. 1894. 
Ell. Sk.1:119. Gray, Man. ed. 6,632. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:507. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario west to British Columbia and Oregon; 
New England west to Nebraska and south to Florida, thence to Texasand Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: All over the State. Shaded grassy banks, dry woods, copses. Cullman 
and Tuscaloosa counties. Washington County, Yellowpine. MobileCounty. April 
to June; frequent; perennial. ss 
Type locality: ‘‘ Basse Caroline.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum scribnerianum Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22:421. 1895. 
: SCRIBNER’s PaNICUM. 
Panicum scoparium minor Scribner, Bull. Univ. Tenn. 7:48. 1894. Not P. capillare 
minus Muhl. 1817. “ . 
Panicum scoparium Wats. & Coult, in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 632. 1890. Not Lam. 1797. 
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