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to it in the hope that it may be investigated. Its range is given 

 by Prof, Coulter (Bot. Gaz. xi. no) as ^'Canada to Pennsylvania, 

 Illinois and about the Great Lakes," but by Watson and Coulter in 

 the Cth edition of Gray's Manual " L. Superior, Robbins. S. New 

 York and southward/' These are contradictory. Specimens 

 from Vermont, New/ Jersey, Illinois and Iowa are preserved in 

 the Columbia Herbarium. 



Calmidriuia pygimca, A. Gray, Proc.- Amcr. Ac. viii. 623 

 (i«73)._ 



Taliimm pygntmivi, A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. xxxiii. 407 

 (1862). 



There is an Australian species so named by F. Mueller in 

 Fragin. Phytog. Austr. i. T75 (1858) and recognized by Een- 

 thani in Flora Australiensis. I would therefore propose for the 

 American plant the name C. Grayi. 



Crotalaria rctitsa, L., was collected by Mr. Blodgett on Key 

 Westj Florida, many years ago. It does not appear to have been 

 reported from the United States before, but might be expected, 

 as it grows throughout tropical America. 



Lotus Hellert, n. sp. {Hosackia Purshiaua, Torr. h Gray, 

 Fl. N. A. i. 327 in part). Frect, annual, div^aricately branching 

 1° to 2°high, finely pubescent orglabrous, leafy ; branches ascend- 

 ing, 6' to 8' long, .slender; stipules; leaves sessile, 3-foIioIate; 

 leaflets linear or linear-oblong, acute, entire, the terminal one 

 slightly longer stalked than the lateral ones which are somewhat 

 inequilateral; peduncles i -flowered, axillary, slender, about 8" 

 long in fruit, leafy-bracted at the summit ; keel yellowish about 

 3" long; wings yellowish, tinged with pink; standard pale pink; 

 calyx lobes linear, equalling or slightly exceeding the tube; pod 

 linear, glabrous, i' to \%' long, \ y^" wide, acute, 5 to 6-seedcd, 

 deflexed at maturity. 



North Carolina (Schweinitz) Mecklenberg Co. (M. A. Cur- 

 tis) Salisbury, Rowan Co. (A. A. Heller). Named in commemora- 

 tion of Mr. Heller's recent collecting trip in North Carolina, on 

 which a number of rare and interesting plants were obtained. 

 Lotus Amerkaiiiis, (Nutt.) Bisch, Litt. Bcr. Linna:a, 1840, 132, 

 {Hosackia Purshiaua, Benth.), with which this has been con- 

 founded, has larger and broader leaflets, is more villous, and has 



the calyx more deeply cleft. I believe that it has not been found 



