356 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Illinois to southern Minnesota and Kansas; 
North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Central Prairie region. Borders of fields. Lee 
County, Auburn (Baker § Earle). Montgomery County. August, September; not 
rare; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum proliferum Lam. Eneyel. 4: 747. 1797. SPROUTING PANIC-GRASS. 
Panicum geniculatum Mubl. Gram. 123. 1817. 
P. proliferum geniculatum Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:34. 1892. 
Ell. Sk.1:117. Chap. Fl. 574. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:508. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Iowa, Missouri, south to eastern Texas, and 
from New England to Florida and Louisiana, 
ALaBaMA: Throughout the State; the typical form rather scarce, found in upper 
district; the large southern form (P. geniculatum Ell.) 3 to 6 feet high frequent in 
the Coast plain in low rich soil. August, September. Annual. 
The southern pliant is a succulent, valuable fodder grass, popularly known as 
“water grass.” ; 
Type locality: ‘ Cultivée au Jardin du Muséum; son lieu natal ne m’est pas connu.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum verrucosum Muhl. Gram. 113. 1817. Warry Panic-Grass. 
Panicum debile Ell. Sk.1:129. 1817. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 631. Chap. Fl. 574. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:34. Scribner, 
Grass. Tenn. 2: 45, t. 11, f. 42. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Coast of New York to Florida, west to 
Louisiana, 
ALABAMA: Coast Pine belt to Coast plain. Low sandy woods, most abundant in 
flat shaded pine barrens near the coast, Monroe County, Claiborne. Mobile and 
Baldwin counties. Tuscaloosa County, near University. July to August; common; 
perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in N. Caesarea, Delaware et Georgia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum rostratum Muhl. Gram.121. 1817. BEAKED PANICUM. 
El. Sk.1:118. Gray, Man.ed. 6,631. Chap. F1.573. Vasey, Contr. Nat. Herb. 3: 
35. Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2:41, t. 8, f. 32. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New York, southern Pennsylvania, 
west: rn Virginia, south to Florida, Texas, and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Damp, close, sandy soil, borders wovds, fields, road- 
sides. Cullman County, 800 feet. Montgomery and Ciarke counties. Monroe County, 
Claiborne. Mobile and Baldwin counties. Frequent; July to October; perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in pratis Penns. Carol. Cherokee.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum anceps Michx. Fl. Bor. Am.1:48, 1803. 
Confounded with Panicum rostratum. Differs from this species in the slender, 
erect, rigid, and almost perfectly glabrous stem, the contracted panicle with the 
spikelets more crowded, the ultimate branchlets more or less one-sided, closely 
appressed to secondary branches; spikelets smaller, erect. 
Louisianian area, South Curolina to Florida. 
ALaBaMa: Coast plain. Miry borders of pine-barren ponds, with P. stenodes, 
Lobelia paludosa, etc. Mobile County, Kelly’s Pond. Baldwin County, Bayou 
Ingram. June to September; perennial. 
Type locality: “Hab. in Carolinae herbosis humidis sylvaticis.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum longifolium Torr. Fl. N. & Mid. U.S.149. 1824. 
Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. 1: 116. 
Alleghenian, Carolinian, and Louisianian areas. Rhode Island, along the coast 
to Florida, west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Flat damp pine barrens, borders of ponds. Mobile County. 
July, October; frequent; perennial. 
Type locality: “‘In the pine barrens of New Jersey.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Panicum elongatum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1:69. 1814. 
Panicum agrostoides elongatum Scribner, Grass. Tenn. 2: 42, t. 9, f. 34. 1894. 
Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. 1: 115. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. New Jersey, Virginia, Tennessee. 
