DAM CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Moist sandy woods, mostly near the coast, New Jersey to Florida and Texas. 
New. Jersey: Wildwood, Chase 3488, 3505, Heritage 6. 
DeLaware: Milton, Commons 342; Lewes, Hitchcock 387. 
MaryYLANnpD: Between Unesrosaiee Beach and Chesapeake Junction, Hitchcock 
1618, 1638. 
Vireinta: Dismal Swamp, Chase 3663, Tyler in 1905; Norfolk County, Kearney 
1559; Virginia Beach, Kearney 2043; Cape Henry, Chase 5426. 
NortH Carona: Chapel Hill, Ashe in 1898, Chase 3068, 3076; Raleigh, Chase 
3086; Wilsons Mills, Chase 
3107; Lake Mattamuskeet, 
Chase 3208; Scranton, Chase 
32014; Roanoke Island, Chase 
3221; Wilmington, Chase 4584, 
Hitchcock 388, 1468. 
SoutH CAROLINA: Orangeburg, 
Ifitchcock 389, 390, 1395; Isle 
of Palms, Hitchcock 386, Chase 
4532; St. Helena Island, Cuth- 
bert in 1899. 
Groraia: Stone Mountain, J.D. Fig. 228.—Distribution of P. lene aera 
Smith 48 in 1883; Millen, Cur- 
tiss 6827; Coney, Harper 1399; Burke County, Harper 765; Thomson, Bartleti 
1443, 1460. 
Froriwa: Lake City, Bitting 8, 13, Chase 4277, 4292, Combs 174, 194, Hitchcock 
1032; Milton, Chase 4305, Curtiss R; Madison County, Combs 215, 294; 
Gefnenilie, Chase 4242, Gores 732; Bee Nash 375; Orange Bend, Chase 
4113; St. Asadliers, Tracy 9138. 
Naavataa: Fort Morgan, Tracy 8399. 
Misstssrerr: Biloxi, Ghee 4331, Hitchcock 1079, Tracy 1735, 2867, 3620, 3622, 
3645, 4580, 4605; Ocean Springs, Tracy 6469; Cat Island, Tracy & Lloyd 441; 
Horn Island, Brae 2856; Jackson, Hitchcock 1297; Seeeioe, Tracy 8416. 
LoursIaANna: Shreveport, Hitchcock 1238, 1258; Cameron, Cocks 2191; Calcasieu, 
Cocks 2193; Breton Island, Tracy & ipa 467; Alexandria, Ball 544; Lake 
Charles, Cine: 4401, elena 1129, 1135, 1147, 1152. 
Texas: Silver Lake, Reverchon 1884. 
V 127. Panicum acuminatum Swartz. 
Panicum acuminatum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 23. 1788. ‘‘Jamaica.’”’? In 
his Flora® Swartz states concerning this species, ‘‘Incolit campos arenosos Jamaicae 
montosae.”” The type specimen, in the Swartz Herbarium, consists of three plants of 
the prostrate autumnal form. 
Panicum dichotomum acuminatum Swartz; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 553. 1864. 
Based on P. acuminatum Swartz. In the Grisebach Herbarium is a plant of this 
species labeled by Grisebach, collected in Jamaica by March. 
Panicum comophyllum Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 80: 380. 1903. ‘Type collected 
in rich soil at Santurce [Porto Rico], January 9, 1899, by Heller, no.12.’’ The type, 
in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, is a specimen in the early branch- 
ing state. 
@ Fl. Ind. Oce. 1: 152. 1797. 
