33i «tNtJS CLY(!:rN£; [Augusti;' 



carina as marking a group of genera, rather tliau as 

 the excUisive character of a single genus. 



The following arrangement, therefore, is submitt^i^ 

 to the consideration of Botanists. 



PHASEOLUS. 



Char. Ess, Canna cum staminibus styloque sjpU 

 raliter tortis, Legumen comjyressum^falcatum, Sei' 

 mina compressa^ reniformia, 



1. Pereyinis, Walt. 



P. caule volubili; racemis geminatis, paniculatisi;, 

 folio loiigioribus ; pedunculis geminatis ; bracteis obso 

 letis; leguminibus penduUs. Willd. sp. pi. 3, p.. 

 1031, 



Walt. p. 182. Pursh. 2, p. 469. 



jP. paniculatuSf Mich. 3, p. 60. 



ffab, in soils fertilibus. Car, Georg, 



S. mMacrostachyus. 



P. caule volubili ; racemis simplicibus longissimis ; 

 pedunculis sub fasciculatis ; foliis subtus villosis. 



This plant, for specimens of whicli I am indebted 

 to the friendship of Mr. John Torrey, of New York, 

 appears to differ materially from our southern species. 

 It is every way more robust, the racemes 13 to 15 inch- 

 es long, witli several flowers from each bud. Leaves 

 thick, (which in the P. perennis are membranaceous) 

 and very villous on the under surface. Tlie legumeBi 

 I have not seen. 



