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Moist open ground, often a weed in fields and waste places, southern 
Florida and Texas, Mexico, and throughout the West Indies to cen- 
tral South America. In Cuba called “stirbana.”’ 
5. Panicum molle Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 22. 1788. (Prob- 
ably Jamaica.) 
Annual, resembling P. fasciculatum but more or less pubescent all 
over; spikelets about 3.5 mm long, pilose (fig. 201). 
Open ground, often a weed in fields, Greater Antilles, Mexico, and 
Central America to Argentina. In Cuba called “strbana.”’ This 
species was reterred by Grisebach ®! to Panicum chartaginense. 
Cusa: Gamboa, Hkman 14953. Without locality, Reed. 
JAMAICA: Hope Gardens, Hitchcock 9350 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 9). 
Kingston, Alexander in 1849; Hitchcock in 1890. THealthshire Hills. 
Hitchcock 9758. Gordon Town, Hitchcock 9323; Harris 11504. Mus- 
grave Road, Harris 11483. 
Haiti: Croix-des-Bouquets, 
Ekman H 971. Cape St. Marc, 
Ekman H 6650. 
6. Panicum echinulatum Mez, 
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 
7: 62. 1917. Paraguay. 
Differing from P. adspersum 
chiefly in the tuberculate-hispid 
spikelets. 
Fields and waste places, West 
ue propa introduced, , 
araguay and Bolivia. : ips ae ws 
Cue owen Pastciilo °° «= andtort intense 
and Tarafa, low. forest, 
Ekman 15451. ‘Trinidad, on the railroad track, Ekman 14023. 
Harri: Les Gonaives, Ekman H 8515. 
Dominican Repustic: Villa Vasquez, Hkman H 13126. Santiago, 
Ekman H 16387. 
VirGin IsLanps: St. Croix, Eggers in 1876. 
LEEWARD Isuanps: Nevis, Box 175. 
7. Panicum adspersum ‘Trin., Gram. Pan. 146. 1826. Santo 
Domingo. 
Panicum thomasianum Steud.; Doell, in Mart., Fl. Bras. 27: 188. 
1877. St. Thomas. 
Panicum keyense Mez, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 7: 61. 1917. 
Florida. 
Culms ascending or spreading, commonly branching and rooting 
at the lower nodes, the flowering branches 30 to 100 cm tall; blades 
5 to 15 em long, 8 to 20 mm wide; panicles 6 to 15 cm long, the ra- 
cemes spikelike, few to many, 3 to 10 cm long; spikelets fusiform, 
abruptly acuminate, 3.2 to 4 mm long, more or less hispidulous 
especially toward the summit (fig. 202). 
Moist open ground, Florida and the West Indies. 
Bauamas: Nassau, Curtiss 113. Anguilla Isles, Wilson 8066. 
61 F]. Brit. W. Ind. 546. 1864. 
