BOTANICAL' 



Vol 8 



AUGUST, 1878. 



No. 8 



Baptisia C'Alycosa, II. sp. — Whole plant smooth except that the luucrouate leaflets, 

 stipules, bracts aad calyx lobes are sparsely ciliate with long white hairs; stem and slen- 

 der straight branches somewhat glaucous; stipules lanceolate, acute, persistent, 'S~l 

 ribbed, half as long as tlie short pctioled leaves, the sessile leaflets oblanceolate or obo- 

 vate, obtuse; racemes terminating the branches, long and loose, the long (1-2 inches) 

 and slendpr pedicels subtended by ovate lanceolate persistent bracts and also bibracteo- 

 late above the middle; calyx tube short, about one-fourth the length of the lanceolate 

 spatulate foliaceous lobes, which are but little shorter than the yellow flowers. Legumes 

 and base of stem not seen. 



Dry pine barrens, St. Augustine, Florida. 



Collected by Miss Mary C. Reynolds who has distributed many of the rare plants of 

 that vicinity. Most nearly allied to B. Lecnntii, Torr. & Gray, but abundantly distinct 

 from that and other species and remarkable for the ciliate foliage and more esjjecially 

 for the foliaceous calyx lobes. — Wm. M. Canby, Wilmington, Del. 



A review ot the genus being desirable, specimens of all species in flower and fruit 

 will be thankfully received and, if desired, returned. T.iose from the South and South- 

 West are especially asked for. — W. M. C. 



Baptisia sulphukea, a. up. — Simple with spreading branches, glabrous ; leaves on 

 very short petioles, leaflets obovate, somewhat rhombic, obtuse or occasionally emargin- 

 ate; stipules small, lanceolate, sub-persistent; spikes rather short with deciduous bracts 

 and sulphur yellow spreading flowers ; pedicels shorter than the broad canipanulate calyx ; 

 broad ovate acutish teeth sliorter than tube, woolly inside; style much longer than oval 

 ovary (5 lines long); stipe of globose pod exsert. 



Prairies, Tabaksi county, collected by Mr. Geo. D. Butler, rare, flowers in May. 

 Indian Territory. B. leucdntlui diflers by its larger growth, deciduous stipules, 

 longer spikes of white flowers which open much later, and longer pedicels, short 

 style (3 lines long) about as long as the linear ovary. B. sphmrocm'pa is wcdl 

 distinguished from our new species by its c;espitose growth, more erect branches, 

 strict spikes with erect deep yellow flowers, pedicels shorter than calyx, the lobes 

 of which are triangular lanceolate, very acute, as long as the narrower tube, and 

 sparingly woolly inside; style much longer than the oval ovary (6 lines long); stipe of 

 pod scarcely longer than calyx. The new species being exactly intermediate between the 

 two just menticmed suggests the idea of hybridity. — Geo. Engelmann. 



A LIST OF SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING SPECIES OF PLANTS COLLECTED IN TIIK 



Indian Territory; by Geo. D. Butler. — [When the locality is not mentioned it is 

 Limestone Gap.] 



Clematis Fitcheri, T. & G. Thickets. 



Anemone VaroUniond. Walt. Common in ]irairies. 



Manunciflii.s pnsilliLs, Voir. Pools, not uncommon. 



Delpltiniu'in azureiivt, Mx. Flowers white with a brown or greenish eye, never blue 

 in this region ; leaves thicker, and their divisions narrower than in Iowa specimens. 

 (B. inre,sceus? Nnit.). Prairies, common. 



Coccidus Gd-rolinus, DC. Common. 



Calyocarpiim Lyoni, Nutt. Rather rare. 



