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ing mature pods which at once attracted attention by their recurved 
position. I cultivated garden specimens from seeds of this plant, 
and when in Mississippi visited the locality whence it was origin- 
ally obtained. Not having access to my former type, and ap- 
preciating its distinctness from Chamaecrista 1 gave a partial 
diagnosis of it as a new species in a note presented before Section 
G at the Buffalo meeting of the Association. The plant must, of 
course, assume the varietal name originally assigned to it. (No. 
1276.) 
CASSIA ASPERA Monril Pollard, n. var. 
Aspect of C. aspera: hispid pubescence and leaflets as in that 
species, except that both surfaces of the leaflets are hoary with 
stiff white hairs ; petiolar gland depressed-cupuliform, substipitate. 
Type in the herbarium of the U.S. Geol. Surv. of Alabama, 
collected in Mobile in 1878 by Dr. Mohr, to whom the variety is 
dedicated. 
PHASEOLUs sINUATUS Nutt. T.& G. Fl. N. Am., 1:279. 1838. 
Specimens of this were obtained, not yet in flower, near Ocean 
Springs. (No. 1017.) I have not been able to find a previous 
record of its appearance west of Florida. 
DAUBENTONIA LONGIFOLIA (Cav.) DC. Mem. Legum. 285. 1825. 
The discovery of a plant on the coast of Mississippi (No. 1001) 
hitherto known only from Texas and Mexico, and as a ballast im- 
migrant at Pensacola, Florida, is of interest as illustrating the ten- 
dency of the western gulf flora to move eastward, just as the Florida 
peninsula flora in so many cases exhibits a northwestward exten- 
sion. While undoubtedly originally introduced, this showy plant 
now figures prominently along the sea-beach at Biloxi and other 
coast towns, and with its large, bright yellow flowers and four- 
winged, many-seeded pods, ought never to be mistaken for the 
nearly-related Glottidium Floridanum, which grows in the same 
region. The characters of the legume separate Daudentonia and 
Glottidium from Sesbania fully as clearly as similar characters dis- 
tinguish any Mimosaceous genera. In Sesbania we have a pod 
which is narrow, elongated, tetragonal, and many-seeded, usually — 
torulose. Glottidium has a short compressed pod, two-seeded, — 
