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, 
~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 mm. 
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, 
I-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, J. N. Rose 17169 = September 
Texas. Hemphill: Canadian, A. H. Howell 87 > July (U). 
“Staked Plains,’ G. W. Holstein (A). 
New Mexico. Quay: Logan, G. L. Fisher 93 > October 5 (U). 
8. CHAMAECRISTA FASCICULATA (Michx.) Greene 
Cassia fasciculata Michx. F\. Bor. Amer. 1: 262. 1803. ‘‘Habd- 
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. 
