Protologue Description: 44) PANICUM LUCIDUM Ashe, sp. nov. Cespitose, culms reclining or prostrate, weak, glabrous. Sheaths glabrous, except the ciliate margin, very short; ligule none. Leaves spreading, 1' long or generally less, narrowly lanceolate, very acute, narrowed to the base, glabrous, rather distant. Panicle peduncled, 11½’ long or less, equally as wide, the branches or single or several together, wide-spreading; spikelets about 7/8” long, elliptic or narrowly obovate, acute, glabrous.

Collected in June 1898 by the writer in deep, shady swamps bordering lake Mattamuskeet, N. C. Probably found in other swamps along the coast of the southern states. Very different from P. sphagnicolum.