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Leaves pubescent. 
Leaflets linear falcate, appressed. C. procumbens. 
Leaflets elliptical, spreading. C. mississippiensis, 
Flowers small (not exceeding 3 cm.). 
Plants strongly hirsute, 
Leaves 8—-12-foliolate. C. simpsont. 
Leaves 20-24-foliolate. C. aspera. 
Plants glabrate or pubescent. 
Leaflets narrow, 20-25. C. muttipinnata, 
Leaflets broad, 8-14. C. nictitans. 
CASSIA MULTIPINNATA 0. sp. 
. Slender, tall, erect, more or less branched; stem slightly woody 
at base, pubescent; leaves lanceolate-elliptical in outline, 20-25- 
foliolate, the rhachis obscurely strigose-pubescent; leaflets 10 mm. 
long, 114 mm. wide, glabrous, narrowly linear, cuspidate, the mid- 
vein approximating the outer margin; petiolar gland minute, de- 
pressed-cupuliform, substipitate ; stipules long-acuminate, striate, 
foliaceous; flowers scattered, sessile, the corolla quite irregular, 
its small yellow petals not much exceeding the narrow, scarious- 
edged sepals; legume linear, compressed, pubescent or even hir- 
sute, dorsally and ventrally dehiscent, elastic, 2 to 2% cm. long 
_ Seeds 4 to 6, oblique. (Plate 250.) 
Near Jacksonville. A. H. Curtiss, North American Plants. 
No. 512, distributed as C. nictitans and C. nictitans var. aspera; 
Second distribution, No. 5157, September 15, and October 27, 
1894. ‘Tallahassee. G. V. Nash, No. 2403, August 12, 1895. 
This is separable from victitans by the narrowly linear, very 
numerous leaflets, the more hairy pod, and the late period of flow- 
ering. The irregular corolla, noticeable in some other members 
of this group of Cassia, but not often commented on, is here very 
prominent, one petal greatly exceeding the others. 
CASSIA MULTIPINNATA NASHII n. var. 
Differs from the erect type in being of low, diffusely spreading 
habit. 
Collected in low pine woods, River Junction, Gadsden Co., 
Florida, by Mr. Nash, September 5, 1895 (no. 2577). 
CASSIA DEPRESSA Nn. Sp. 
Low and spreading, but not prostrate, divaricately much 
