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long, usually on spreading pedicels; seeds 6 to 9. From Kansas southwestwaid. 

 Collected in Kansas in 1867, by Doctor Bell; determined and named in 1892 by 

 E. M. Fisher. Type in Gray Herbarium. (Cont. Nat. Herb., vol. I, p. 144.) 



33. Hoffmanseggia jamesii Torr. & Gray, var. popenoensis Fisher, n.v.: Herba- 

 ceous, taller, with thick stems; upper stems and flowers black with large glands; 

 pinna? 7 to 9; leaflets more glandular; racemes denser; petals with villous veins; 

 filaments larger, more villous. Collected in Kansas in 1876 by Prof. E. A. Pope- 

 noe, and named in 1892 by Mr. Fisher, as above. Type in National Herbarium. 

 (Cont. Nat. Herb., vol. I, p. 150.) 



34. Hosackia purshiana Benth., forma orientata: Plants 4 to 10 dm. high; 

 branches north and south; leaves east and west, facing the sun all day; pods many, 

 40 to 300 on a plant. Pawnee, Barton, Reno and Stafford counties, on rich soil (S.) 



35. Hosackia purshiana, var. pnsiila: Plants 1 dm. high, scarcely branched; pods 

 few, seldom exceeding three. Common in western Kansas (S.) 



36. Indigofera leptosepala Nutt.: Norton, Wallace and Meade counties (S.) 



37. Lespedeza striata L.: Franklin county, introduced (Castle). 



38. Oiytropis montioola Gray: Kingman county (Carleton in Cont. Nat. Herb., 

 vol. I, p. 222). 



39. Oiytropia splendens Dougl.: Rooks county (Bartholomew). 



40. Psoralea tenuiflora Pursh: West of 99th meridian. This is very distinct from 

 P. floribunda Nutt., of eastern Kansas, which has of late years been catalogued as 

 P. tenuiflora (S.) 



41. Cerasus pumila Mi.: Phillips and Graham counties. 



42. Geum vernnm T. & G.: Franklin county (Castle). 



43. Pyrus ioensis Bailey, n. sp.: Northeastern Kansas (Amer. Gard. XII, 473). 



44. Ammannia auriculata Willd.: Rooks county (Bartholomew). 



45. Gaura drummondii Torr. & Gray: Stem suflruticose at base, a little hairy be- 

 low, virgately branched above; leaves somewhat canescently puberulent, lanceolate, 

 acute, denticulate or somewhat sinuate; spikes slender, few and loosely flowered; 

 fruit sessile, very abruptly narrowed at the base and terete when mature, ovate-pyr- 

 amidal above, acute, with four strong carinate angles. Kiowa and Seward counties 

 (S.) 



46. Gaura sinuata Nutt.: Stem suffruticose, diffuse or decumbent, branching and 

 very leafy at base, sending off slender and naked flowering branches, glabrous or 

 hairy; leaves lanceolate linear, acute, remotely and acutely sinuate-toothed, glabrous; 

 flowers loose, pediceled; fruit lanceolate or ovate, tapering at both ends. Seward 

 county (S.) 



47. Gaura villosa Torr.: Stems suffruticose, and with numerous very short, leafy 

 branches at base, canescently puberulent, with villous hairs intermixed, and sending 

 up naked and elongated glabrous and often paniculate flowering branches; leaves 

 tomentose-canescent on both sides, lanceolate, remotely and acutely toothed or rarely 

 entire; raceme loosely flowered; fruit slender, 4-sided, tapering at both ends, on a 

 filiform pedicel, at length relaxed. Cimarron valley, Seward county (S.) 



48. Oenothera hartwegi Benth.: Sherman and Meade counties (Smyth); Clark 

 county (Cont. Nat. Herb., vol. I, p. 206). 



49. (Enothera sinuata L., var. grandiflora Watson. Edwards county (Cont. Nat. 

 Herb., vol. I, p. 206). 



50. Mamillaria dasyacantha Eng.: Simple, nearly globose, 3.5 to 6.5 cm. high; 

 tubercles terete, loosely arranged, slightly grooved, 8 to 10 mm. long, with some- 

 what villous axils; spines straight, more slender and soft than usual, often capillary, 

 spreading, but not radiating, 12 to 24 mm. long, the exterior 25 to 35 white, the in- 



