280 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Cusa: Consolacién del Sur, Ekman 10860. 
Haiti: Furey, Cook, Scofield, and Doyle 36; Leonard 4346, 4501. 
Caille la Croix, Leonard 7920. St. Louis du Nord, Leonard 14503; 
Ekman H. 4743. Mission, Leonard 3801, 3852. Pétionville, Ekman 
H 1095. Morne de la Selle, Buch 1364. 
Dominican Repusuiic: Constanza, Tuerckherm 3059. Jarabaco, 
Eggers H 2129. Azua, Ekman H 11855. Jicomé, Valeur 293, 756. 
60. Panicum polycaulon Nash, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 24: 200. 1897. 
Florida. 
Culms tufted, soon forming small mats or dense rosettes, the vernal 
culms 10 to 20 cm tall, the autumnal culms prostrate, scarcely 
exceeding the leaves; blades flat, mostly 3 to 6 
em long, 3 to 6 mm wide, usually strongly 
ciliate; panicles ovoid, few-flowered, 3 to 4 cm 
long, about as wide, the axis pilose; spikelets 
about 1.5 mm long, glabrous or rarely pubescent 
eee: ds, Florida to Missi d 
Se aE IS an ine woods, Florida to Mississippi an 
ae ac =A eae the ae Antilles. i 
temey and Boret, X10 _ Cusa: Pinar del Rio, Hitchcock 23299. Herr- 
adura, Hitchcock 115; Ekman 10083. Sdbalo, 
Ekman 11436a. Guara, Hitchcock 23411, 93429. Woodfred, Shafer 
3083. Without locality, Wright 3875 in part. Isla de Pinos, Ekman 
12123; Palmer and Riley 990. 
JAMAICA: James Hill, Harris 12852. Hollis Savanna, Harris 12225. 
Barican, Hitchcock 9561. Bull Head Mountain, Hitchcock 9550. 
DomrntcaNn Repusuic: Cuenca, Hkman H 11068. 
PuEeRTO Rico: Mayaguez, Chase 6276; Holm 59a. San Juan, Chase 
6767. Campo Alegre, Chase 6621. Aguada, Sintenis 5724. 
61. Panicum strigosum Muhl., in Ell., Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1: 126. 
1816. Southern United States. 
Vernal phase with culms 5 to 30 em tall, the nodes pubescent; eons 
3 to 6 cm long, 3 to 8 mm wide, ciliate and pilose; panicles 3 to 5 
long, open, the branches pilose; spikelets about 
1.5 mm long, glabrous. Autumnal phase a dense 
mat, asin P. zralapense (fig. 253). 
Sandy woods and open moist ground, at low and 
medium altitudes, eastern and southern United 
States, and Mexico to Panama; Greater Antilles. 
Cusa: Pinar del Rio, Ekman 17874. ElGuama, y,eunn 253.-—Panicum 
Palmer and Riley 213. Cajalbana, Léon 4829. _ strigosum. Two views of 
Without locality, Wright 3875 in part. Isla de (pov *™ 
Pinos, Britton and Wilson 14411. 
Annex. Ballutie ad Mountain, Hitchcock 9551. 
Harti: Grand-Gosier, Ekman H 6857. 
Dominican Repustic: El Tetero, Ekman H 13720. 
62. Panicum chrysopsidifolium Nash, in Small, Fl. Southeast. U.S. 
100.” 1903 Mlonda. 
Vernal culms ascending or spreading, erayish-villous, the nodes 
bearded; sheaths villous; ‘blades 5 to 10 cm long, 3 to 5 mm wide, 
tapering from base to apex, conspicuously pointed, villous on both 
surfaces; panicles 4 to 6 cm long; spikelets 2 mm long, pubescent. 
Autumnal phase spreading and forming mats; blades flat, papery with 
age (fig. 254). 
