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free equal, pistil stipitate, style curved, stigma 

 acute, pod stipitate smooth subglobose acumi- 

 nate swelled, seeds reniform. Leaves simple 

 amplexicaule reticulate, flowers axillary soli- 

 tary peduncled yellow — Genus quite distinct by 

 habit, petals, stamens, pod &c which has been 

 shuffled by turns into Crotalaria, Sophora^ 

 Podalyria^ Rafnia, Baptisia ! 5 Genera . . ! 

 my name means around stem. Perennial and 

 vernal. 



337. Pericaclon perfoliatum Raf. (5 Gen- 

 era do of Authors !) stem terete, subramose, 

 leaves perfoliate rounded elliptic both ends ob- 

 tuse reticulate smooth glaucous — CaroUna to 

 Florida, sandy hills, aspect of Buplevrum per- 

 foliatum, flowers pale yellow. My specimens 

 are from Kin, in Collins herb. Dillen and 

 L. describe it with cordate ovate leaves, do 

 they mean another sp ? P. cordatum Raf . . . 



338. Pericaulon microphylum Raf. Bapti- 

 sia do Nut. rar. 53. stem ramose, leaves sessile 

 obovate rounded, upper amplexicaule coales- 

 cent with rounded stipules — West Florida and 

 Alabama, lately described by Nuttal, flowers 

 and pod as in the last. 



339. EAPLOSIA Raf. (to be simple) difl*. 

 Pericaulon, cal. camp. 4fid subequal, petals un- 

 equal on long claws, keel large much longer ob- 

 tuse, wings oblong, vexiUum obovate revolute, 

 ovary conical desinent into a strait subulate style, 

 stigma acute smooth. Pod substipitate conical 

 smooth. Leaves simple sessile smooth reticu- 

 late, stipules none, flowers ra^^emose bracte- 

 ate yellow.— P^ fine distinct Genus by habit, pe- 

 tals, pod <Slc : Nuttal did not see the flowers, 

 the leaves become fuscate in drying, lucid 

 above, dull beneath. 



