ACMISPON. 53 



er HeUopsis. These 4 figured in my Autikon 

 U to 14. 



ACMISFON Raf. Atl. jour, meaning jioint 

 hooked. Diifering from Trlgonella, Bticer- 

 ates, Platycarpos and Lotus. Even Torrey 

 said that it ought to be a genus, and Bentham 

 unites it to Hosaclda. 



CaUx deeply 5 cleft, vexillum and wings equal, 

 pod stipitate smooth strait, compressed, swelled 

 and hooked at the point. Leaves ternate^S'dky , 



1. A. sERicEUM Raf Lotus do. Pui*sh, Tri- 

 gonella amerlcana, Nut. T. E. well described 

 by Nuttal, flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile. 

 From Missouri to Carolina, rare, probably 2 sp. 

 blended : both seen dry. 



2, A. MULTiFLORUM Raf. pedunclcs axillary 

 and terminal, multiflore nearly in a spike or um- 

 bel. Missouri. Is not the Carolina plant this ? 

 or a peculiar sp ! Which is the Hosackia par- 

 shiana of Bentham 1 The true Hosackia have 

 pinnate leaves, pods cylindrical, keel rostrate 

 instead of tlie pods. 



ACNIDA of Linneus. Genus better known 

 since Michaux corrected account, copied by all 

 our botanists except Elliot. But the original 

 A. canahlna L. is not known to our botanists; 

 they all mean that of Michaux. Linneus de- 

 scribed his species as follow. — A. canabina. 

 Root flexuose, stem white, petiols purplish 

 smooth, leaves pinnate velutlne., folioles 5 to 

 7 narrow acute, spikes axillary foliose, fl. fem. 

 cal. 2phyl. 5 styles. In Virginia salt marshes. 

 Such a plant with pinnate leaves cannot be of 

 this Genus. Could Linneus have described the 

 leaves of another plant mixt with Acnida flow- 

 ers ? Could this be over again his Dalisra hir- 

 ta found by no one since ? Sir James Smith 



