PANICUM LEucoTukix n. Sp.
Culms caespitose, 1-4.5 dm. tall, erect or ascending, somewhat branched, sparingly pubescent with ascending hairs, the nodes glabrous. Sheaths less than one-half as long as the internodes, 2 cm. long or less, usually purplish, pubescent with ascending or nearly appressed long white hairs, those at the base of the sheath more dense and spreading ; ligule a ring of long white, erect hairs ; leaves erect or nearly so, lanceolate, 2-6 cm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, acuminate at the apex, truncate or rounded at the partly clasping base, 7-9-nerved, rough and glabrous above or with a few minute scattered hairs, pubescent below with short appressed hairs; pani cle ovate or oval, 2.5-6 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, its branches
spreading or ascending, 2.5 cm. long or less; spikelets obovate, about .65 mm. long, .4 mm. wide ; first scale membranous, one •uarter to one-third as long as the spikelet, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 1-nerved ; second and third scales membranous, equal in length,. 7-nerved, strongly pubescent with short spreading hairs; fourth scale chartaceous, elliptic, yellowish-white, enclosing a palet of equal length and similar texture.
Type collected by the writer in the low pine land at Eustis,. Lake County, Florida, in the part of July, 1894, no. 1338. Nos. 334 and 467, of the same collection, also belong here.