BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
mo. XIX) New York; April 5, 1892. [No. 4. 
A Preliminary List of the Species of the Genus Meibomia, Heist., 
occurring in the United States and British America. 
By ANNA M. VAIL. 
The genus Hledysarum in Linnzus’ Genera Plantarum, ed. i. 
225, published in 1737, and referred by him to Tournefort, com- | 
Prised Onobrychis, Hedysarum, Alhagi and Meibomia. The 
first reference to Metbomia, as distinct from Hedysarum, that I 
have found is in the second edition of Ludwig’s Definitiones 
Generum Plantarum, 156, (1747). I have not access to the first — 
edition of that work. According to Dr. Otto Kuntze, the genus 
was founded by Mohring (Hort. Priv. 65, 1736), and referred by 
him to Heister one year ahead of the Linnzan Genera Plantarum. 
__ According to the same author it was used by Manetti in 1751 
_ and by Fabricius in 1753, and to these it may be added by Ad- 
—anson (Fam. Pl. ii, 509) in 1763. Siegesbeck called it Hedysar- 
odes in 1736, but I have not found that name used subsequent to ~ 
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St. Hilaire named the genus Pleurolobus in 1812, and Phyl- 
 lodium and Desmodium, Desvaux, appeared in 1813. 
The genus Desmodium was elaborated by DeCandolle in the 
_ “cond volume of the Prodromus in 1825, and the North Amer- 
iN species of the genus in the first volume of Torrey & Gray’s 
my Noptical Flora in 1838, and they have been followed by all re- 
Cent writers, , | 
Thirty-nine species are enumerated in this list, which is an : 
attempt to straighten out the rather complicated synonymy of © 
the genus, The species of the Southwestern States are as Be : 
