80 New and rare Plants of North Carolina. 



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phas. The crown of the tooth as represented in the Oregon spe- 

 cimen differs from the same in the present species, but may have 

 been injured by friction or other accident. The animal to which 

 these Oregon specimens belonged is not named by Mr. Perkins, 

 but he very properly remarks their resemblance to those of the 

 Megatheroid tribe.* 





Art. XL — An Account of some new and rare Plants of North 



Carolina ; by M. A, Curtis. 





Hypericum Buckleii: low, suffruticose, diffusely branched 

 from the base, the branches slightly angled; leaves cuneate- 

 oblong or obovate, subsessile, glabrous, very obtuse, minutely 

 punctate; flowers terminal, solitary, pedimcled; bracts subulate, 

 small, a little below the flower; sepals foliaceous, unequal, oval 

 or obovate, obtuse, much smaller than the petals, 3-nerved at the 

 base; stamens numerous, shorter than the petals; capsule con- 

 ical, acuminate with the united styles, 3-celled. 



Stem 8-12 inches high. Leaves 6-7 lines long, 3-4 broad, 

 pale beneath. Plant resembles Ascyriim Crux-Andrece. — Dis- 

 covered in 1839 on Whiteside Mountain, Macon County, N. C. 

 Found the past season (1842) on many other mountains of North 



Carolina, south of the French Broad River, and in Georgia by 

 Mr. S. B. Buckley. 



Thermopsis Caroliniana : simple, erect, glabrous; leaves long 

 petioled ; leaflets oval oblong, cuneate at base, obtuse above, 

 glaucous and with a fine appressed pubescence underneath ; sti- 

 pules large, about equalling the petiole, semicordate, clasping ; 

 flowers in a long terminal raceme, short pedicelled, alternate ; 

 bracts ovate, longer than the pedicels, deciduous ; calyx silky 

 villous, the teeth short and subequal, the upper one truncate, the 

 lower triangular acute; legume oblong linear, straight, erect, 

 appressed to the rachis, densely villous, 10-12-seeded. 



Stem 3-5 feet high, glabrous except in the raceme. Raceme 

 6-12 inches long ; leaflets 2^-3 inches long, about 15 lines wide, 



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* Dr. Perkins proposed to name his specimen, if it proved to be a new animal, 

 Onjcter other ium Oregonensis. We have casts of the os humeri from both Dr. 

 Perkins and Dr. Harlan, and can discriminate no difference; they must have be- 

 longed to the same animal. — Eds. 



