272 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Spikelets not over 2.1 mm. long. 
Blades firm, glabrous above; culms stiffly 
ESC CILGTIE 5 2 5 os RNR RD ee Ce eee 164. P. lancearium. 
Blades lax, softly puberulent on both surfaces; 
pow culmsidecumbent 2 esse ee eae 165. P. patulum. 
Y 163. Panicum pauciciliatum Ashe. 
Panicum pauciciliatum Ashe, Elisha Mitchell Soc. 16: 87.1900. ‘‘Collected by 
me May 20, 1899, growing in dry sand near Wilmington, N.C.” The type, in Ashe’s 
herbarium, consists of six single culms, beginning to branch, 25 to 30 cm. high, with 
somewhat geniculate nodes, and short-exserted, hardly mature panicles. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Vernal culms cespitose, erect or geniculate at base, slender, stiff and wiry, 15 to 30 
cm. high, the internodes commonly reddish purple, crisp-puberulent to nearly gla- 
brous; sheaths much shorter than the internodes, striate, glabrous or crisp-puberulent, 
usually ciliate; blades firm, 2 to 5 cm. long, 3 to 6 mm. wide, ascending or spreading, 
glabrous to puberulent, ciliate near the base; panicles 2 to 4 cm., rarely 6 or 7 cm., long, 
two-thirds as wide, the flexuous branches spreading or the lower reflexed, the pedicels 
and ultimate branchlets often directed toward the under side; spikelets 1.5 to 1.6 mm. 
long, 1 mm. wide; first glume one-third to half as long 
as the spikelet, obtuse or truncate; second glume and 
sterile lemma puberulent, the glume shorter than the 
fruit and sterile lemma; fruit 1.4mm. long, 1 mm. wide, 
elliptic-obovoid, apecnnaly pointed. 
Autumnal alias ascending from a decumbent sae, 
branching from all but the uppermost node before the 
maturity of the primary panicles, the primary inter- 
nodes often elongating, the terminal joint with its 
panicle together with the internode below it often falling early, thus giving the ap- 
pearance of short culms branching at all the nodes characteristic of this species; early 
branches about equaling these shortened primary culms, repeatedly branching, the 
ultimate branchlets in fascicles toward the ends, the reduced blades spreading, invo- 
lute-pointed; winter rosette appearing late, not conspicuous. 
This species often closely resembles P. lanceariwm, but*the differences, though small, 
are fairly constant, though Chase 3126 and Ennis in 1899 have spikelets. 1.7 to 1.8 mm. 
long. Chase 3139, Wilmington, N. C., 
with ligules 0.3 mm. long and semedly 
pyriform spikelets, is doubtfully re- 
ferred here. 
Fig. 303.—P. pauciciliatum. From 
type specimen. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Sandy woods of the Coastal Plain, 
mostly in moist places, North Carolina 
to Florida and along the Gulf to Texas; 
also in Cuba and Porto Rico. 
NortH Carouina: Roanoke Island, 
Chase 3246; Wilmington, Ashe Fic. 304,—Distribution of P. pauciciliatum. 
in 1899, Chase 3126, 3127, 3128, 
3162, 4567, Hitchcock 414, 416, 1432, 1477, 1479, 1487. 
Ftorwwa: Baldwin, Hitchcock 992; Apalachicola, Chapman; Orange County, Baker 
41, 70, 71, 72, Combs 1085, Meislahn 169; Eustis, Chase 4045, Httchcock 793, 
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