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Haiti: La Coupe, Buck 975. Port-au-Prince, Picarda 1430. (Both in K. U. 



Herb.) 

 Porto Rico: Guanica, Chase 6527, 6531, Sintenis 3367. Mayaguez, Chase 6288, 



6318. Boqueron, Chase 6511. Coamo Springs, Chase 6552. 

 Danish West Indies: St. Croix, Ricksecker 212. St. Thomas, Eggers in 1882. 

 Leeward Islands: Antigua, Wullschlaegel 614. Guadeloupe, Z>t6.ss 2690, 3584, 



X ^Herminier. 

 Windward Islands: Martinique, Duss 1293. 

 Trinidad: Icacos, Si'te^coc^ 10158. 

 Curasao: Aruba, Suringar in 1885. 

 Venezuela: Paparo, Pi^iier 6347. 

 Colombia: Santa Marta, Smith 151. 



6. Panicum paludivagum Hitchc. & Chase. 

 Panicum paludivagum Hitchc. & Chase, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 15: 32. 1910, 



distribution. 



Fresh-water lakes and rivers, the 

 base submerged, Florida and Texas, 

 Mexico, Central America to Uru- 

 guay. The type specimen from Flor- 

 ida. 



Jalisco: Guadalajara, Palmer 429 

 in 1886, Hitchcock 7294. 

 Fig. 16.-Distribution of P. paludivagum. Orozco, Hitchcock 7374. 



Michoacan: Lake Patzcuaro, Pringle 3336. Zamora Valley, Pringle 9556. 



Morelia, Arslne in 1909. 

 Guatemala: AmatitMn, Kellerman 6253, 6254, Pittier 101, Tilrckheim 8790. 



7. Panicum barbinode Trin. 



Panicum barbinode Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. Sci. Nat. 1: 256. 1834; Contr. 

 r. S. Nat. Herb. 15: 33. 1910. 

 Commercially known as " Para grass"; called "malajilla" in Porto Rico. 



distribution. 



Cultivated and waste ground, especially in moist places, tropical America, extend- 

 ing into southern Florida and Texas; introduced in the warmer parts of the Old World. 

 The type specimen from Bahia, Brazil. 



Lower California: San Jose del Cabo, Brandegee 46. La Paz, Palm£r 131 in 1890. 



Colima: Paso del Rio, Emrick 8. Manzanilla, Palmar 1078. 



Mexico: Cuantla, SbZway 3045. 



Veracruz: Veracruz, Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 4.^ 



Oaxaca: Tomellin, Hitchcock 6227. 



Yucatan: M^rida, Collins 27. 



Guatemala: Mazatenango, Maxon & Hay 3476. Cubilquitz, Tilrckheim 7799, 



8617. Escuintla, Hitchcock 9007. 

 Salvador: Without locality, Renson 214. 



Nicaragua: Jinotepe, Hitchcock 8701. Chinandega, Baker 2053. 

 Costa Rica: Terraba, Pittier 412, 4090. Rio Tuis, Tonduz 11393. Puntarenas, 



Hitchcock 8545. Taboga, Guanacaste, Jimenez 722. Turrialba, Tonduz 8401. 



^ American Grasses, exsiccatse distributed from the U, S. National Herbarium, 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



