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acute pubescent ; pods unequal linear contor- 

 ted, end hooked. — In West Louisiana and 

 Texas, small plant, minute leaves and flowers 

 in peduncled head. Figure in Autikon rare. 14. 



11. D. ViRGATA Raf. fl. lud. 444. Acacia. 

 Mimosa Virgata Bartram. Stem erect, 

 branches virgate, leaves bipinnate ; pods ob- 

 long on long peduncles, and lunate broad flat 

 contorted. — On the shores of Florida, Herba- 

 ceous perennial, flower of a pale greenish yel- 

 low. Omitted by all our botanists. 



12. ScHRANKiA Wild. Nuttal wrongly says 

 only one species known ! Eaton joins to it the 

 M. sensitiva of the hot houses ! the type is the 

 M. quadrivalvis of Linneus, which includes se- 

 veral Sp. of which I give two. — 



13. S. UNCINATA W. M. intsia Walter, M 

 horridula Mx. Prickles hooked, branches an- 

 gular, leaves bipinnate, peduncles geminate, 

 pods oblong (Elliot) linear terete (Mx.) prick- 

 ly — Virginia to Florida. Well described by 

 Elliot, flowers purple, vernal. 



14. S. 3IEXICANA Raf. M. 4:-valvis L. Hous- 

 ton fig. Prickles hooked, branches quadrangu- 

 lar, leaves bipinnate, partial ternate, pedun- 

 cles axillary, pods linear subulate 4 angular 

 prickly. — In Mexico sea shores, and probably 

 in Texas. 



ACALYPHA of Linneus, Cupameni of 

 Adanson. Genus well known and natural, 

 well described by the authors, who have adopt- 

 ed the good linnean name, rather than the ma- 

 labaric name of Adanson. It is a tropical and 

 Asiatic Genus extending to North America. 

 Persoon has 38 Sp. (Linneus had only 5) and 

 there are more, since only two arc admitted of 

 N. A. out of the whole. I have ascertained 9 at 



