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f 120. Amphicarp.ea monoica, Ell. Sk. 2. p. 223. Council Grove ; August. 



121. Glycirrhiza lepidota, Nutt Gen. 2. p. 106. Prairies, in low places, twelve 

 miles east of Council Grove, and in waste places around Santa Fe ; July, August. 



122. Psoralea floribunda, Nutt. in Ton. $> Gray, Fl. 1. p. 300. Upper Arkan- 

 sas to San Miguel, in high prairies ; Aug., Sept. 



123. P. ARGOPHiLLA, Pursh, Fl. 2. p. 475; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. t. 53. Between 

 Willow Bar and the Cimarron River ; August. 



1 124. Amorpha canescens, Nutt. Gen. 2. p. 92. Prairies, around Santa Fe. 



125. A. canescens /3. leptostachya, Engelm. Mss. Woodlands, seven miles west 

 of Las Vegas ; August. 



126. A. fruticosa, Linn. var. (A. nana, Bot. Mag. t. 2112. See remarks in 

 Ton. & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 690, Suppl., under A. nana). From 120 miles west of Independ- 

 ence to Pawnee Fork ; August (in ripe fruit). Shrub three to five feet' high. Ovary 

 with two collateral ovules in this genus, and in Eysenhardtia. 



127. Dalea alopecuroides, JVilld. ; DC. Prodr. 2. p. 21 4. Low prairies, &c, 

 Santa Fe ; also on the Arkansas River; July to September. 



123. D. lanata, Spreng. Syst. 3. p. 327. (D. lanuginosa, Nutt. in Ton. #■ Gray, 

 Fl. 1. p. 307.) Low, sandy places in the prairies, near the Cimarron River; August. 



129. D. aurea, Null. Gen. 2. p. 101. Prairies, from Las Vegas to the Upper 

 Spring on the Cimarron ; August. 

 </ f 130. D. nana {Ton. ined.): caulibus e basi ramosis diffusis humilibus foliisque 

 scriceo-incanis ; foliolis 5 oblongis vel obovatis ; spicis oblongis laxiusculis sericeo-villosis- 

 simis subsessilibus ; bracteis et floribus fere D. aureae. — Sandy soil, Willow Bar, on the 

 Cimarron; August. Collected in the same region by Fremont in 1845; also by Lind- 

 heimer and Mr. Wright in Western Texas in 1847. It appears like a dwarf D. aurea 

 (4 to 6 inches high) ; but the diffusely spreading stems are repeatedly branched and leafy 

 to the spikes, which are smaller and much less dense. 



131. D. laxiflora, Pursh, Fl. 2. p. 741. Prairies, on the Cimarron, &c; August. — 

 D. penicillata, Moric. PL Nouv. Amer. t. 45, from Texas, appears to be the same species. 

 Dr. Torrey has furnished me with specimens of an allied species from Monterey, Mexico.* 



t'. * Dalea pogonathera (sp. nov.) : pusilla, glaberrima, perennis; caulibus depressis; stipulis setaceis ; foli- 



olis 5-7 oblongo-linearibus subtus rachique grosse nigro-glandulosis; spicis oblongis densifloris; bracteis 

 ovatis carinato-concavis mucronato-acuminatis glabris parce glanduliferis margine scariosis tubum calycis 

 sericeo-villosi laciniis setaceis plurnosissimis breviorem sequantibus ; petalis purpureis, carina alas et vcxil- 

 lum multo superantibus ; staminibus 10. — Around Monterey, Mexico, Dr. Edwards and Major Eaton. — 

 The specimens (perhaps depauperate) are only 3 or 4 inches high, and might he taken for a starved state of 



