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lorida—Apalachicola, Chapman. 
In his description of this plant Linnzeus gives America as its 
habitat. DeCandolle changed ‘the name to P dentata, and 
gives Madeira as its habitat. Kuntze, in Rev. Gen. Plant i. 193, 
notes that the plant undoubtedly grows wild on the island of 
Madeira, and therefore is not American, but re-establishes the 
Linnzan specific name, though under the generic name of Lofodes. 
The species has been collected in Florida, and doubtless the plant 
from which Linnzeus made his original description came from one 
of the Southern States. It would be interesting to know how 
well it is established there. Dr. Chapman’s plant is preserved in 
the Herbarium of Columbia College. 
26. PSORALEA MELANOCARPA Benth. 
Psoralea melanocarpa Benth.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. 1: 234 
(1879). Type in Herb. Kew. 
Shrubby at the base; stems trailing or spreading, sparingly 
pubescent with appressed white hairs ; stipules 6-10 mm. long, 
lanceolate, long-acuminate; leaves 3-foliolate; petioles 3-6 cm. 
‘long; leaflets, 4-7 cm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, 
glandular, nearly glabrous above, sparingly pubescent beneath ; 
peduncles 12 cm. or more long, exceeding the leaves; racemes 
oblong; flowers few, slender pedicelled; bracts 6 mm. long, ovate, — 
acuminate; calyx lobes linear, acuminate, nearly as long as the 
pod ; pod obliquely ovate, somewhat twisted, transversely reticu- 
lateand somewhat tuberculate, beak short, recurved ; seed 3-4 mm. 
long, elliptical, much smaller than the pod. 
Mexico—Coulter, No. 561; Parry & Palmer, No. 142; near Mon- 
tery, Pringle, No. 2275 (1888). : 
27. PSORALEA RIGIDA Parish. Ge 
Psoralea rigida Parish, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 19: gt (1892). 4 
_ Erect, 3-6 dm. high, glandular, sparsely villous, with short 
intermingled black and white hairs ; petioles 2 cm. or more long; — 
stipules lanceolate, leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 cm. or more 
long, glabrous, rigid; peduncles shorter than the leaves ; flowers 
in capitate racemes; bracts lanceolate, much shorter than 
flowers ; calyx I cm. long, lobes acuminate, the upper one mu oe 
the longest; pod 8-10 mm. long, ovoid, coriaceous, with a short, 
stout, straight beak (under a lens, with a few white hairs); see? 
elliptical, 7 mm. long, black. - 3 
California—Oak Grove, San Dice Co., Parish, No. 643 (1882 
