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leaves; flowers in loose spikes; bracts 1 cm. long, glandular, 
broadly ovate, much imbricated, the cuspidate apex longer than 
the flowers; calyx-lobes acute, glandular, the lower lobe the long- 
est; pod 4 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, nearly orbicular, compressed, 
ransversely wrinkled with a minute recurved beak; seed orbic- 
ular, flat, brown.* 
[There is a specimen of this plant in the Linnzean Herbarium 
in the place of FHledysarum viridifiorum 1., as. indicated on the 
sheet by Dr. Asa Gray. It is out of place, however ; the speci- 
men of Hedysarum vinidiflorum on which Linnzus founded the 
Species is the plant of Gronovius preserved in the Herbarium of 
the British Museum of Natural History, and is Meibomia viridt- 
fora (L.) Kuntze. N. L. B.] 
Washington Seattle, Ch. V. Piper., No. 58 (1891). 
Indiana—New Albany, A. Clapp. 
Mllinois—Rafinesque in Herb. Acad. Phila; Salem, W. S. Bebb; 
Maysville, Buckley ‘labelled “eg/andulosa”). 
Missouri—Jefferson City, Knause (1869); Garden Gap, Frank 
Bush (1888); Paris Springs, J. W. Blankinship (1887). 
Kansas—Cherokee Co., J. H. Oyster, No. 2133 (1887). 
Virginia—Petersburg, M. Tuomey; near Suffolk, A. Heller, No. 
959 (1893). | 
North Carolina—Near Salisbury, A. A. Heller, No. 30 (1890). 
South Carolina—Beck (labelled ” P. lanceolata); Pine Barrens, 
Near Society Hill, John Donnell Smith. 
Ceorgia—Jessup Co., T. H. Kearney (1893). 
Kentucky—Oaklands, Short; Big-hill, Madison Co., Short. : 
Tennessee—_Neay Dandridge, Rugel (1842, labelled P. eglandu- 
losa E1l.), 
Arkansas—N uttall; F. L. Harvey, No. 13 (a monstrosity with 
foliaceous calyx-lobes in Herb. Gray ; Pitcher. 
Georgia Baldwin; Leconte; S. H. Wright. 
Louisiana Hall Carpenter (1841). ren Shes 
Alabama—Buckley (1847); Thomas W. Peters; La Grange, N. R. a 
_ ‘Hatch; G. R. Vasey (3878). A 8 ee a 
