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CONTRIBUTIONS FKOM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



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second glume scarcely equaling the fruit at maturity; fruit 1.5 mm. long, 0.8 mm. 

 wide, elliptic, obtuse. 



Autumnal form widely spreading, sparingly branching from the lower nodes, the 

 leaves and panicles not greatly reduced, the panicles overtopped by the leaves, 

 these less copiously pilose. 



This species may be distinguished from P. implicatum and P. meridionale by the 

 larger spikelets, the long-exserted panicles, the aggregation of the leaves toward the 

 base of the vernal culms, and the sparingly branched, almost prostrate autumnal 

 form. In its most characteristic form the panicle branches are strictly ascending at 

 maturity and spikelet-bearing near the ends only, thus forming a compact panicle 

 with a long naked base. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Dry woods and sandy ground, Nova Scotia to Connecticut, and west to Minnesota 

 and northern Indiana. 



Nova Scotia: Bedford, Macoun 29368. 



New Brunswick: Kent County, Fovder in 1875. 



■Quebec: Montmorenci Falls, Macoun 69205 (Gray Herb.). 



Maine: Chesterville, Chase 3278, 3320; Fayette, Chase 3391; Cape Elizabeth, 

 Chase 3453; Stacy viWe, Knight 

 56; North Yarmouth, Cham- 

 berlain 837; Hartford, Parlin 

 2016; Cumberland, Chamber- 

 lain 787, Richer 1277^; Orono, 

 Fernald bOl; Ogunquit, Parlin 

 1581; Canton, Parlin 2001. 



New Hampshire: Wiers, Carter in 

 1902 (Hitchcock Herb.). 



Vermont: Rutland, Eggleston 

 1758. 



Massachusetts: Ipswich, Oalces 

 (Gray Herb.). 



Connecticut: Tolland, Bissell 12001. 



New York: Verona, Haberer in 1900; Hempstead, BicJcnell in 1903; Valley 

 Stream, Bichnell in 1905; Rosedale, Bichnell in 1904. 

 \ Ontario : Gait, Herriot in 1898; Algonquin Park, Macoun 22023. 

 "^Indiana: Clark Junction, Behh 2832, 2833^. 



Michigan: Keweenaw County, Farivell 642. 



Wisconsin: Conover, Cheney 678; Tomahawk Lake, Cheney 1082. 



Minnesota: Carlton, Ashe in 1899. 



o 133. Panicum occidentale Scribn. 



Panicum occidentale Scribn. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 10:48. 1899. Based on "P. 

 pubescens [Lam. misapplied by] Presl, not Lam. nor Michx." While the type must 

 be the specimen in Presl's herbarium, Scribner's conclusions were based on a dupli- 

 cate in the Bernhardi Herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden, labeled in Presl's 

 handwriting " Pariicum pubescens Michx." The type specimen collected by Haenke, 

 which is the basis of Presl's « identification, is in the Bohemian Museum at Prague 

 and consists of three culms with mature primary panicles, and with secondary panicles 

 on short branches from the lower nodes, that is, vernal culms showing the commence- 

 ment of the autumnal form. One label reads '^ Panicum pubescens Michx.;" another 

 bears the locality "Archipel, " which refers to the vicinity of Nootka Sound, Van- 

 couver Island, the locality as published by Presl, "Hab. in Nootka-Simd." 



Fig. 238.— Distribution of P. subvillosum. 



«Rel. Haenk. 1:306. 1830. 



