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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



North Carolina: West Raleigh, Stanton 1271; Swain County, Beardslee & 

 Kofoidin 1891; Wilmington, Ashe in 1897. 



South Carolina: Santee Canal, Ravenel (Gray Herb.). 



Georgia: Sumter County, Harper 638; Thomson, Bartlett 1103; Stone Moun- 

 tain, Hitchcock 216; Augusta, Cuthbert in 1903; without locality, Latimer in 

 1885. 



Florida: Jacksonville, Curtiss 3608, 4036, 5252, 5808; Milton, Chase 4314; 

 Orange County, BaJcer 31, Combs 1049, 1116, Meislahn 22a; Titusville, Chase 

 3986; Eustis, Chase 40m, Nash 780; Gainesville, C%a.se 4202; Braidentown, 

 Combs 1269, 1294; Bartow, Combs 1234; without locality, Rugel 598. 



Tennessee: Nashville, Gattinger in 1882. 



Alabama: Cullman County, Eggert 59; Auburn, Earle & BaJcer in 1897. 



Mississippi: Nicholson, Kearney 379; Waynesboro, Kearney 120; Biloxi, Kearney 

 336 in part, Tracy 4562; Pass Christian, Langlois 35 in 1882. 



Louisiana: Oberlin, Ball 204; Lake Charles, Chase 4424. 



Texas: Jefferson, Plank 30 (Hitchcock Herb.). 



/ 72. Panicum brachyanthmn Steud. 



Panicum brachyanthum Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1: 67. 1854. The only specimen 

 cited is, " Vinzent Coll. nr. 124. Texas." The type, in the Paris Herbarium, is labeled 

 "In sabulosis sylvaticis, Texas, prope coloniam Rusk County, Vincent coll. 124." 



Panicum sparsiflorum Vasey, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Bot. Bull. 8: 36. 1889, not 

 Doell, 1877. Vasey cites "-(P. angustifolium. Chap, non ML), " gives a description, 

 and follows with the range "South Carolina to Texas." As this is not primarily a 

 change of name, the type is one of the specimens which Vasey had before him when 

 he wrote the description. From among those in the National Herbarium upon which 

 Dr. Vasey has written the name, we have chosen as the type one collected in dry soil 

 at San Bernardino, Texas, -October, 1839, by Dr. Ridell, no. 20. This was first named 

 by Dr. Vasay, P. angustifolium Ell. The authority, "Ell.," was changed to "Chap, 

 non Ell." No specimens from South Carolina can be found named P. sparsiflorum 

 by Vasey nor is the species known from that State. 



description. 



Plants weakly ascending or spreading from a decumbent base, freely branching from 



the lower nodes; culms slender, 30 cm. 

 to 1 meter high; sheaths shorter than the 

 intemodes, minutely ciliate; blades 5 to 

 15 cm. long, 2 to 3 mm. wide, narrowed 

 toward the base, often involute and 

 scabrous toward the apex, th^uppermost 

 usually reduced; panicle^;iiinally ex- 

 serted, 5 to 15 cm. long;"^bqu:t as wide, 

 the branches few, scabreusi.t&e lower 

 sometimes as much as 10- endlong, bear- 

 ing a few short-pediceled spikelets, 

 mostly in twos, toward the ends; spike- 

 lets 3.2 to 3.6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, 

 elliptic-obovate, abruptly pointed; fii-st 

 glume minute; second glume and sterile lemma subequal, the tubercles bearing stiff, 

 spreading hairs; fruit 2.9 to 3 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide, obovate-elliptic, subacute. 



Fig. 123. — P. brachyanthum. From type specimen. 



