Pennell: Plants of southern United States 359 



Illinois. Henderson: Oquawka, H. N. Patterson (U). 



Missouri. Barry: Eagle Rock, B. F. Bush 44 < September 

 28 (U, Y) ; also Greene, St. Louis and Scott Counties. 



Kansas. Cherokee: A. S. Hitchcock 668 (U, Y). 



Arkansas. Benton: £. N. Plank (Y). Pulaski : Little Rock, 

 H. E. Hasse > August 26 (Y). 



Oklahoma. Le Flore: "9 m. west of Fort Smith," J. M. 

 Bigelow (U). 



Louisiana. Rapides: Alexandria, /. Hale (Y). West Feli- 

 ciana: Catalpa, F. W. Pennell 4278 > August 21 (P, Y). 



Texas. Burnet: Marble Falls, E. N. Plank > August 10 (Y). 



12a. Chamaecrista nictitans j8 



Cassia multipinnata Pollard, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 515. pi. 

 250. 1895. No type indicated, and first specimen listed, 

 Curtiss 712 (cited as "512 "), is composite, consisting of plant 

 described and in part of Chamaecrista aspera. Second specimen 

 cited, "Near Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss, North American 

 Plants . . . second distribution, No. 5157, September 15, and 

 October 27, 1894," is taken as the type. Type seen in the 

 herbarium of the United States National Museum. 



Cassia multipinnata Nashii Pollard, I.e. 515. 1895. "Collected 

 in low pine woods, River Junction, Gadsden Co., Florida, by 

 Mr. Nash, Sept. 5, 1895 (2577)." Type seen in the herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Chamaecrista multipinnata Greene, Pittonia 3: 243. 1897. 



Stem 1-5 dm. tall. Stipules linear-attenuate. Leaflets fifteen 

 to twenty-six pairs, 1-2 mm. wide. Legumes 4-5 mm. wide. 

 Seeds six to twelve. Otherwise as in the species. 



Sandy soil, in the Coastal Plain, especially in the pine-land, 

 South Carolina to southern Mississippi. In the long-leaf pine- 

 land replacing the species, of which it may be no more than an 

 ecological form. 



South Carolina. Aiken: Aiken, H. W. Ravenel (U). 



Georgia. Bibb: Macon, /. M. Green (A). Brooks: Quitman, 

 R. M: Harper 1632 > September 13 (U, Y). Burke: M. H. 

 Hopkins IQ > September 9 (Y). Sumter: Americus, S. M. Tracy 

 3gs8 > August 20 (U). 



