296 



CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



South Carolina: Orangeburg, Hitchcock 4S7 . 



Georgia: Savannah, Kearney 183; McGuires Mill, Sinall in 1893; Clarke County, 



Harper 110, 150; Cobb County, Harper 210;T^mericus, Tracy in 1897; Dekalb 



County, Eggert 82; Stone 



Fig. 334. — Distribution of P. scoparium. 



Mountain, Hitchcock 215; 



Thomson, Bartlett 1170. 

 Florida: Jacksonville, Kearney 



156; Lake City, Nash 2204; 



Apalachicola, Biltmore Herb. 



4290a; without locality. Chap- 

 man. 

 Kentucky: Warren County, Price 



in 1896 (Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb.). 

 Tennessee: Chester County, Bain 



in 1892. 

 Alabama: Auburn, Pollard dc Maxon 2, 67, Tracy 3978; Cullman, Eggert 12, 60, 



Mohr in 1895; Selma, Kearney 3; Tuskegee, Carver 52, 87; Mobile, Hitchcock 

 - 594, Kearney 67, Tracy 7048. 

 Mississippi: Starkville, Tracy in 1896; Taylorville, Tracy 8591; Pachuta, Tracy 



3306. 

 Arkansas: Miller County, Eggert 116, Heller 4236; northwest Arkansas, Bar^Je^/ 30. 

 Louisiana: Arcadia, Ball77; Ruston, Coc^s 3324. 

 Texas: Waller County, Thurow in 1898; Texarkana, Plank 25; Hempstead, Hall 



829; Fort Smith to the Rio Grande, Bigelow; without locality, Nealley in 



1885, Drummond S81; Vincent AVo (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 

 Oklahoma: Choctaw Agency, BijreZow. 

 Cuba: Road to Pinal Mayari, Wright 3467 (Gray Herb.). 



\/ 179. Pajiicum viscidellum Scribn. 



Panicum viscidellum Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Circ. 19 : 2. 1900. 

 ' ' Gravelly banks near Jalapa, State of Vera Cruz, altitude 1,250 m. (4,000 feet). C. G. 

 Pringle, No. 8089. 1899." A second specimen, Liebmann 323, is cited but the first 

 is taken as the type. The Pringle specimen, which is in the National Herbarium, is 

 in the early branching state. The culm appears to be decumbent or creeping, sending 

 up erect branches. 



description. 



Vernal culms ascending from a decumbent, widely spreading or creeping base, 

 rooting at the lower nodes, softly villous or nearly glabrous, the nodes more or less 

 short-bearded; sheaths shorter than the intemodes, villous or, especially the upper- 

 most, glabrate; ligules ciliate, 2 to 4 nam. long; blades 

 spreading, rather thick, more or less velvety-pubescent 

 or villous on both surfaces, the uppermost 5 to 13 cm. 

 long, 9 to 13 mm. wide, linear-lanceolate, subcordate, 

 the lower lanceolate, more cordate, shorter and wider; 

 panicles 4 to 11 cm. long, half to two-thirds as wide, 

 usually densely flowered, the numerous branches 

 spikelet-bearing from the base; spikelets 1.8 to 1.9 mm. 

 long, 1 mm. wide, elliptic, acute, sparsely pubescent; 

 first glume about one-third as long as the spikelet, pointed ; second glume and sterile 

 lemma slightly exceeding the fruit at maturity; fruit 1.5 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide, 

 elliptic, abruptly pointed. 



Fig. 3?^.— p. viscidellum. 

 type specimen. 



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