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the palea is not entirely inclosed by the fertile lemma. In these characters and in 
its inflorescence and aquatic habit it approaches Hymenachne. f 
In some parts of Florida this species, known as ‘‘maiden cane,’’ becomes a 
troublesome weed in cultivated soil on account of the creeping rootstocks. In this 
situation it very rarely produces flowering culms. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
In moist soil, along river banks and ditches, borders of lakes and ponds, often in 
water, Delaware to Florida and west to Texas. 
DELAWARE: Millsboro, Commons 23 in 1884. 
NortH Carouina: Burgaw, Hyams; Wilmington, Kearney 269. 
SoutH Carouina: Society Hill, Curtis (Gray Herb.). 
GroreIA: Sumter County, Harper 1007. 
Fioripa: Jacksonville, Curtiss 3585, 4811, Kearney 157; Baldwin, Combs 69; 
p Lake City, Combs 87, 206; 
Madison, Combs 287; De 
Funiak Springs, Combs 443; 
Econfina, Combs 680; Eustis, 
Nash 745; Lake Harris, Chase 
4121; Homosassa, Combs 960; 
Ellzey, Combs 832; Bronson, 
Combs 836; Waldo, Combs 711; 
Braidentown, Combs 1270, 
1323; Palma Sola, Tracy 6731; 
Tampa, Garber in 1876; Bar- : 
tow, Combs 1195; Hastings, Fic. 364.—Distribution of P. hemitomon. 
Tracy 8847; Jensen, Hitchcock 
744; Myers, Hitchcock 863; Orange Glade, Eaton 574; Miami, Hitchcock 696; 
without locality, Rugel 347. 
ALABAMA: Mobile, Mohr in 1882. 
Lours1ana: Pointe ala Hache, Langlois 46 in 1879; New Orleans, Drummond 461. 
Texas: Big Sandy, Reverchon 2341; Hempstead, Hall 820; Waller, Thurow in 
1898; Kounze, Nealley 40 in 1892; without locality, Drummond 367. . 
; aie 92; without locality, 4 ey 
/ 194. Panicum ciliatissimum Buckl. 
Panicum ciliatissimum Buckl. Prel. Rep. Geol. Agr. Surv. Tex. App. 4. 1866. 
“Northern Texas.”’ The type 
is in the herbarium of the 
Philadelphia Academy. No lo- 
cality is given on the label other 
than ‘“‘Texas.”’ 
DESCRIPTION. 
Plants perennial, producing 
long, leafy stolons, with short 
internodes, rooting at the swollen 
nodes, the sheaths mostly longer 
than the internodes but usually 
not inclosing them, the blades Y 
short, firm, and divaricately Fia. 365.—P. ciliatissimum. From type specimen. 
spreading; flowering culms usu- 
ally sparingly branching, erect or ascending, 15 to 40 cm. high, glabrous, the 
nodes bearded; sheaths sparsely, or sometimes rather densely, pilose, mostly shorter 
