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An Undescribed Desmodium from Texas and Mexico. 
DESMODIUM LINDHEIMERI.—Erect, branching, stout, 2° or 
more high, conspicuously angled and channeled, downy with a 
close fine pubescence ; stipules more or less persistent, ovate lance- 
olate, cuspidate, pubescent and reflexed; petioles 1’ or more 
long; leaflets scabrous or finely pubescent above, reticulate, vil- 
lous-pubescent and the veins conspicuous beneath, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, 1-3’ or more long, the terminal one mostly somewhat 
thomboid, truncate at the base, acutish, the two others inequi- 
lateral, smaller and more obtuse ; racemes panicled, spreading ; 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, deciduous; flowers purple ; 
calyx bilabiate, the lobes acute and nearly equal ; loment 1’ to 
134’ or more long, 4-6 jointed, the joints obliquely oval, about 
4" long and 3” wide, glabrous with the sutures conspicuously 
uncinate-pubescent ; stipes 1” or less long. 
Monterey, Mexico, Herb. Kew, coll. by Dr. Edwards; (Hems- 
ley Biol. Cent. Am. i., 291,) also in Herb. Torrey (without fruit), 
determined by Bentham as Desmodium viridifiorum, Beck. 
New Braunfels, Texas, coll. F. Lindheimer (No. 499). Car- 
acol Mts., Mexico, coll. Ed. Palmer (No. 246). Mts. near Carde- 
nas, Mexico, coll. C. G. Pringle (No. 3289). This plant differs 
from the typical Desmodium viridifiorum (L.) Beck, of the Atlan- 
tic Coast States in its angled stems, stouter habit, and the size 
and shape of the joints of its loment. Those of D. virtdiflorum 
afe rarely more than 2’’ long, semi-rhomboid and uncinate pubes- 
cent throughout, whereas those of D. Lindhetmeri are fully twice 
that size, obliquely oval, glabrous with only the sutures uncinate- 
pubescent. In the more recently collected and beautifully pre- 
pared specimens of C. G. Pringle the joints are green with the 
pubescence on the sutures appearing perfectly white. The alli- 
ance of Lindheimer’s plant is rather with Desmodium canescens 
(L.) D.C. than with D. viridiflorum. 
ANNA MURRAY VAIL. 
Plants of Special Interest Collected at Orono, Maine. 
By Merritr L FERNALD. 
Although Orono and vicinity have long been considered 
among the best collecting fields in Maine, both for the botanist 
and the entomologist, yet very little has been published concern- 
ing our flora. This is doubtless due, in a large degree, to the lack 
