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CONTEIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HEEBAEIUM. 



Fig. 228. — Distribution of P. lanuginosum. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Moist sandy woods, mostly near the coast, New Jersey to Florida and Texas. 

 New Jersey: Wildwood, Chase 3488, 3505, Heritage 6. 

 Delaware: Milton, Commons 342; Lewes, Hitchcock 387 . 

 Maryland: Between Chesapeake Beach and Chesapeake Junction, Hitchcock 



1613, 1638. 

 Virginia: Dismal Swamp, Chase 3663, Tyler in 1905; Norfolk County, Kearney 



1559; Virginia Beach, Kearney 2043; Cape Henry, Chase 5426. 

 North Carolina: Chapel Hill, Ashe in 1898, Chase 3068, 3076; Raleigh, Chase 



3086; Wilsons Mills, Chase 



3107; Lake Mattamuskeet, 



Chase 3208; Scran ton. Chase 



3201^; Roanoke Island, Chase 



3221; Wilmington, Chase 4584, 



Hitchcock 388, 1468. 

 South Carolina: Orangeburg, 



Hitchcock 389, 390, 1395; Isle 



of Palms, Hitchcock 386, Chase 



4532; St. Helena Island, Cuth- 



bert in 1899. 

 Georgia: Stone Mountain, /. D. 



Smith 48 in 1883; Millen, Cur- 



tiss 6827; Coney, Harper 1399; Burke County, Harper 765; Thomson, Bartlett 



1443, 1460. 

 Florida: Lake City, Bitting 8, 13, Chase 4277, 4292, Comhs 174, 194, Hitchcock 



1032; Milton, Chase 4305, Curtiss R; Madison County, Combs 215, 294; 



Gainesville, Chase 4242, Combs 732; Eustis, Nash 375; Orange Bend, Chase 



4113; St. Andrews, Tracy 9138. 

 Alabama: Fort Morgan, Tracy 8399. 

 Mississippi: Biloxi, Chase 4331, Hitchcock 1079, Tracy 1735, 2867, 3620, 3622, 



3645, 4580, 4605; Ocean Springs, Tra«/ 6469; Cat Island, Tracy & Lloyd 441; 



Horn Island, Tracy 2856; Jackson, Hitchcock 1297; Saratoga, Tracy 8416. 

 Louisiana: Shreveport, Hitchcock 1238, 1258; Cameron, Cocks 2191; Calcasieu, 



Cocks 2193; Breton Island, Tracy & Lloyd 467; Alexandria, Ball 544; Lake 



Charles, Chase 4401, Hitchcock 1129, 1135, 1147, 1152. 

 Texas: Silver Lake, Reverchon 1884. 



v 127. Panicum acurtunatnm Swartz. 



Panicum acuminatum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 23. 1788. "Jamaica." In 

 his Flora « Swartz states concerning this species, ' ' Incolit campos arenosos Jamaicae 

 montosae." The type specimen, in the Swartz Herbarium, consists of three plants of 

 the prostrate autumnal form. 



Panicum dichotomum acuminatum Swartz; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 553. 1864. 

 Based on P. acuminatum Swartz. In the Grisebach Herbarium is a plant of this 

 species labeled by Grisebach, collected in Jamaica by March. 



Panicum comophyllum Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 30:380. 1903. "Type collected 

 in rich soil at Santurce [Porto Rico], January 9, 1899, by Heller, no. 12." The type, 

 in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, is a specimen in the early branch- 

 ing state. 



oFl. Ind. Occ. 1:152. 1797. 



