BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Notes on Kuhnistera, 
By A. A. HELLER. 
PLATE 262. 
The genus Awhnistera was published by Lamarck, in Ency- 
clopedie Methodique, 3: 370 (1789), who based it upon the 
“ Kuhniae affinis” or “ Anonymos pinnat.” of Walter, and gave it 
the name of Aushnistera Carolinensis, from its resemblance to the 
genus Kuhunia of the Compositae. Walter, who did not know ex-_ 
actly where to place the plant, consigned it to his - convenient 
Anonymos. 
This in some respects peculiar plant has had an interesting 
history and a variety of names. Jussieu, in Gen. Pl. 355 “1789), 
under the description of Dalea, adds: ‘‘Speciam habeo siccam, me 
habitu flosculosam Eupatorii instar sed Dalea fere congeneram cui 
calix communis polyphyllus imbricatus multiflorus, calix proprius _ 
inferus 5-partitus plumosus, petala 5 subaequalia eamer: : 
caetera similia.” 
This is folloswat by a an. observation of Ventenat, in Tab. Pe 305 
(1794) under Kuhnistera Carolinensis, who says that the. plant of 
which Jussieu gave a short description, after having presented the 
characters of Dalea, is, according to Michaux, this Anonymos of 
- Walter; Kuhnistera differs above all from the genera following 
by the disposition of the flowers in a corymb, by its involucre an 
by the plumose divisions of the calyx Srp. The genera folloy 
> Michaux evident: 
