so NORTH AMERICAN 



at all soft. The above 4 sp. are quite distinct, 

 and may be the B. villosa or mollis of some 

 Authors, which I add here for contrast and 

 comparison, although 1 have not seen them. 



333. Lasinia cinerea Raf. B. villosa of Au- 

 thors, stem and leaves beneath pubescent, sti- 

 pules linear, leaves subsessile, folioles elliptic 

 obtuse— in Carolina, Michaux says the flov^ers 

 are pale, Elliot calls them grey. 



334. Lasinia mollis R. Bapt. do Mx. 4*^ 

 Quite pubescent soft decumbent, stipules lan- 

 ceolate fdioles, leaves petiolate, folioles rhom- 

 boidal lanceolate, calix acute — in North Caro- 

 lina, flowers dark yellow, omitted by Elliot, dis- 

 covered by Mx. found by Nuttal on the Cataw- 

 ba ridge, leaves 2 inches long one wide, pod 

 small oblong acuminate. 



335. Lasinia bracteata Raf. Bapt. do Mg. 

 Elliot, &c leucophea Nuttal &c — quite pubes- 

 cent hispid, branches angular divaricate, leaves 

 and folioles sessile, stipules large ovate acute, 

 folioles cuneate obtuse, racemes multiflore se- 

 cund, bracts large lanceolate — from Carolina 

 to Louisiana and Missouri, fine striking sp. fo- 

 lioles 3 inches long narrow, young leaves yel- 

 low beneath, flowers large on long peduncles, 

 called ochroleucous by Nuttal, grey by Elliot, 

 they are become brown in my Specimen* 

 Vernal. 



Decandole appears to have misunderstood 

 some of these sp. he divides the bracteata and 

 leucophea, while he deems the first the mollis 

 of Mx. but has another mollis of Nuttal .... 



336. PERICAULON Raf. caUx campanu- 

 late unequaly 4fid, upper bidentate, petals e- 

 qual papil. not spreading, vexillum carinate e- 

 marginate amplectens not reflexed, stamens 10 



