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*A. Priceana B. L. Robinson. Similar localities with the 

 former. Nashville. May, June. 



GALACTIA P. Br. 



Galactia regularis (L.) B. S. P. G. glabella Michx. Milk 

 pea. Open grounds. O. S. July, August. 



G. volubilis (L.) Britton. G. pilosa Ell. G. mollis Nutt. 

 White Blufif, Dickson County. June, July. 



G. mollis Michx. G. pilosa Nutt. Common in open, dry 

 ground. O. S. July, August. 



RHYNCHOSIA Laur. 



Rhynchosia tomentosa (L.) H. & A. Dry, siliceous soil. 

 O. S. May-July. 



PHASEOLUS L. 



Phaseolus polystachys (L.) B. S. P. P. perennis Walt. 

 Wild bean. Brownsville Cumberland Mts. Mrs. Lydia 

 Bennett. July-September. 



P. vulgaris Savi. Common harricot. Pole bean. Var. 

 nanus bush bean. Cultivated since the dawn of culture to 

 the present day in many varieties. Believed to have come 

 from W. Asia. 



P. lunatus L. The lima bean is claimed for the intertropical 



■:^A. Priceana B. L. Robinson. (Torr. Bot. Bull. 1898.) Viporous 

 herbaceous twiner; stem, terate, slightly striate, at first covered with a 

 fine reflexed pubescence, but soon nearly glabrate, arising from a large 

 oblate spheroidal root (18 cm. diameter); leaves, 3-9 foliate, those of 

 the main stem 24 cm. long, the ovate or ovate-lant-eolate acuminate 

 leaflets sparingly pubescent upon both surfaces, green and scarcely 

 paler beneath, thin and rather veiny, obtuse or rounded at the base, 

 4-10 cm. long, half as broad; petiolules, hirsutulous; leaves and leaflets 

 of the branches, considerably smaller; stipules, subulate, pubescent, 6 

 mm. long; racemes, dense, borne mostly by twos and threes in the 

 axils, those of the main stem often 12-15 cm. long, 50-70 flowered, and 

 mostly bearing a single short branch; rameal inflorescences, smaller 

 and simple; floral axes, thickish; pedicels, slender, 5 mm. long, com- 

 monly borne by twos and threes in the axils of ovate caudate-acuminate 

 bracts at somewhat greater length; calyx, hemispherical roseate; the 

 limb, obliquely subtruncate, except for the linear-attenuate anterior 

 tooth; petals, greenish white, tinged especially toward the end with 

 rose purple or magenta; the vexillum suborbicular 25 mm. long, biau- 

 riculate at the base and bluntly cornute at the apex; wings, somewhat 

 shorter, narrowly oblong, a little broadened and rounded at the apex; 

 essential organs of the genus; pods, clustered, 12-15 cm. long, 1 cm. 

 broad, acuminate at the apex, attenuate at the base, about 10 seeded; 

 seeds, oblong, olive green, 8 mm. long, separated in the pod by biconcave 

 sections of the silvery-white pithy endocarp. First collected and dis- 

 tinguished by Miss Sady F. Price, of Bowling Green, Ky. 



