VA OY, 
SYA 0) CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Panicum pubsfolium Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 577.1899. ‘“‘P. latifolium var. 
molle Vasey, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 3: 33.1892. Not P. molle Sw. 1788,’’ is cited 
and a description follows. As no type is cited this is evidently primarily a change of 
name, based on P. latifoliwm molle Vasey. 
Panicum boscii molle Hitche. 
& Chase in Robinson, Rhodora 
10: 64.1908. Based on “‘P. lati- 
folium var. molle Vasey.’’ 
DESCRIPTION. 
Closely resembling P. boscii 
and often scarcely to be distin- 
guished from it; culms on the 
average not so tall, downy-villous; 
sheaths rather sparsely villous; 
blades velvety on the under sur- 
face, sparsely appressed - pubes- 
1G. 359.—P, boscii molle. From type specimen. cent on the upper; panicle axis 
and branches puberulent and 
somewhat pilose; ppikelets rather more strongly pubescent than in the species. 
The Florida specimens, together with Biltmore Herbarium 5185b, Dewey 73 and Steele 
in 1896, have spikelets mostly larger than 4.5 mm. long, and correspond with the varia- 
tion of the species which includes P. latifolium australe Vasey. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Woods, Connecticut to Illinois and Arkansas, south to Florida and Louisiana. 
Connecticut: Norwalk, Bissell 5551. 
New York: Long Island, Bicknell in 1903, 1904, and 1905. 
New Jersey: Great Notch, Nash in 1893. 
PENNSYLVANIA: Germantown, Stone in 1889; Easton, Porter in Soe 1895, and 
1898; Westchester, Windle in 
1904; Haines Station, Heller 
4779. 
Oxuto: Cincinnati, James. 
Inutinois: Union County, French 
in 1872. 
Missourt: Monteer, Bush 754; 
Noel, Bush 5060. 
DELAWARE: Newark, Hitchcock 
592. 
District oF CoLuMBIA: Ball 703, 
Hitchcock 435, Merrill 202, 203, Fic. 360.—Distribution of P. boscii molle. 
Pieters in 1896, Pollard 412, 
Seaman in 18738, Steele in 1896, Vaseyin 1873 and 1884, Wardin 1881 and 1882. 
Virerntia: Glencarlyn, Dewey 73, 92; Four-Mile Run, Hitchcock 434, 436; Bel- 
field, Meynke in 1904; Portsmouth, Noyes 104. 
Norrm.Carouna: Asheville, McCarthy in 1888; Biltmore, Biltmore Herb. 5185a, 
5185b; Chapel Hill, Chase 3054. 
Souta Carona: Newry, House 2211. 
GeEorGIA: Stone Mountain, Hitchcock 1344; Gwinnett County, Small in 1893; Cobb 
County, Wilson 27; Athens, Harper 15; Warm Springs, Tracy 8868; Augusta, 
Cuthbert 392, 1162. ; 
Fioripa: Lake City, Hitchcock 10104, Rolfs 817; Chattahoochee, Curtiss 6047 
(Hitchcock Herb.); Madison, Combs 295; Gainesville, Chase 4208, Combs 738. 
