Protologue Description: PANICUM MATTAMUSKETENSE Ashe, sp. nov. Erect, sometimes tufted, strict, rather stout, 2 feet to 4 feet high, often purplish, nodes strongly barbed. Lower leaves and sheaths soft-pubescent the upper glabrous; ligule pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Leaves lanceolate. 3'-5' long, 4"-7" wide, spreading. Panicle 3'--5' long, ovoid, long-peduncled, the branches numerous, clustered ; spikelets ellipsoid, glabrous, pointed, 1" long, first scale one-third the length of the spikelet.

Roadsides, ditch banks and wet open woods around lake Mattamuskeet, N. C., where it grows with P. barbulatum. June and July. The later stages profusely branched above with shorter leaves and small few-flowered panicles. Collected by the writer, and Mr. Gilbert Pearson in June, 1898.