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120 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. . 
Calcareous limestone prairies, central Texas. Early 
spring. 
A. hyacinthoides is quite readily distinguished in the 
field by its very fragrant attractive pink flowers, very 
early blooming, and habit of growing in bunches. From 
A. mutabile Michx., to which it is related, and with which 
it has been confused, it differs in being very fragrant, in 
having shorter stems, rather longer obtuse sepals which 
are twice longer than the stamens, smaller capsules, 
shorter pedicels, different habitat, and an earlier season of 
blooming. A. mutabile Michx. grows in sandy woods 
about Dallas, Texas, and blooms from two to four weeks 
later. 
Specimens examined: Twxas: Dallas, Bush 270, April 
14, 1900; Reverchon 2183, April 5, 1900; Reverchon 
4025, April 1, 1880. 
PSORALEA SUBULATA n. sp. 
Acaulescent or nearly so, 1.5-3 dm. tall, from a shallow 
seated, oval, farinaceous bulb. Stems densely pubescent 
with long, shaggy white hairs, many-leaved and many- 
flowered. Petioles 1-2 dm. long, much stouter and longer 
than the peduncles, commonly considerably exceeding them 
and mostly from the base of the stem; leaflets 5, digitate, 
short-stalked, broadly obovate, with a cuneate base, obtuse 
and rounded at the apex, cuspidate-tipped, very pubescent 
beneath with long, shaggy white hairs, sparsely so above, 
3.5-6 em. long, and 2-2.75cm. wide; peduncles from the 
base of the stem, 5-10 cm. long, commonly reclining or 
recurving; spikes many, oblong, dense, 5-8 cm. long, 
2.5—-4 cm. thick, very many flowered; bracts lanceolate, 
shorter than the calyx-tube, about 7.5 mm. or less long ; 
calyx- teeth subulate, 6-10 mm. long; pod oblong, 4—5mm. 
long, nearly smooth, tipped with a long, densely hairy sub- 
ulate beak, which is 12-15 mm. long. 
