Pennell: Plants of southern United States 347 



Herbarium, no. 660032, collected in sandy soil at Logan [New- 

 Mexico], October 5, 1910, by Mr. Geo. L. Fisher (no. 93)." 

 Type seen in United States National Herbarium. 

 Annual. Stem erect, 1-3 dm. tall, branched, finely puberulent 

 over entire surface with ascending-incurved hairs. Stipules 

 lanceolate-attenuate, glabrous or nearly so, slightly ciliate, nerved, 

 4-6 mm. long. Petioles 2-4 mm. long, finely puberulent with 

 incurved hairs. Petiolar gland single, toward distal end of petiole, 

 sessile, slightly saucer-shaped, 0.07-0.2 mm. wide, brown. Leaflets 

 five to nine pairs, 7-12 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, oblong, obtuse, 

 shortly mucronulate, glabrous, scarcely finely ciliolate, paler 

 beneath, faintly nerved. Bracteoles 2-3 mm. long, lanceolate- 

 attenuate. Pedicels one or two in a fascicle, 7-10 mm. long, 

 finely puberulent with incurved hairs. Sepals 7-10 mm. long, 

 ovate-acuminate, puberulent on the midrib. Petals 10-15 rnm. 

 long, ovate-acuminate, puberulent on the midrib. Petals 10-15 

 mm. long, anterior exceeding laterals. Stamens ten, unequal, 

 two longer; anthers 6-8 mm. long, purple. Legumes 3-4.5 cm. 

 long, 4-5 mm. wide, appressed-puberulent with an evident beak, 

 1-2 mm. long. Seeds six to nine, 3 mm. long. 



Sandy soil. Staked Plains of northwestern Texas, southwestern 

 Kansas and eastern New Mexico. 



Kansas. Morton: Richfield, /. N. Rose j/j^p ^ September 

 20 (U). 



Texas. Hemphill: Canadian, A. H. Howell 87 > July (U). 

 "Staked Plains," G. W. Holstein (A). 



New Mexico. Quay : Logan, G. L. Fisher gj > October 5 (U). 



8. Chamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene 



Cassia fasciculata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. i: 262. 1803. " Hah- 

 in Pensylvania et Virginia." Type not seen nor verified, but 

 description sufficiently indicates this plant. 



Chamaecrista fasciculata ["fascicularis"] Greene, Pittonia 3: 242. 

 1897. 



Chamaecrista bellula Pollard, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 15: 19. 1902. 

 "Type in the United States National Herbarium, collected by 

 Prof. S. M. Tracy at St. Vincent, Florida, September 9, 1899 

 (No. 6,326)." Type, collected September 4, 1899, seen in 

 the United States National Herbarium. Perhaps a small- 

 leaved form of the southern Coastal Plain. 



