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606. Acuan illinoensis (Michx.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 
158. (1891). 
Mimosa illinoensis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:254. (1803). 
Acacia brachyloba Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 1071. (1806). 
Desmanthus brachylobus Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 4: 358. 
(1842). 
Gravelly banks of Devil’s Lake. 
Family 65. AMORPHACEAE Nwd. (from local flora, not 
published yet.) 
Principal character: Corolla with only one petal (the standard) 
AMORPHA Linn. Hort. Cliff. 353. (1737), Gen. 229. (1737), 
gig. (1754). 
607. Amorpha fruticosa (Linn. Sp. Pl. 713. (1753). 
Banks of the Cannonball River, Wade, Morton Co. (W. B. 
Bell); Kulm (Brenckle). 
608. Amorpha nana Nutt. Fras. Cat. (1813). 
Amorpha microphylla Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 466. (1814). 
Minot; Morton Co. (W. B. Bell.) 
609. Amorpha canescens Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 467. (1814). 
Butte, Brinsmade, Pingree, Berwick. 
Family 66. PAPILIONACEAE Valerius Cordus' Hist. PI. 
emis 7. = (1561). 
Also Fabaceae Cordus 1. c. 
Papilionaceae Winn. Phil. Bot. 33. (1751), also Tour. (Papil- 
onacet), I. RK. A. 643.\(1700). 
Leguminosae Boerhave, P. Hermann, Morison, etc. 
PETALOSTEMUM Michx. FI. Bor. Am. 2: 48. (1803). 
Kuhnistera Lam. Encycl. 3: 370. (1789). Built on Kuhmia, 
the name is undesirable. Anyway Kuhnistera is thought separate 
from Petalostemum (Kk. pinnata.). 
610. Petalostemum candidum (Willd.) Michx., Fl. Bor. 
Am. 2: 49. (1803). 
Dalea candida Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1337. (1803). 
Leeds, Butte. 
' Cytisus Laburnum “‘flores producit figura Fabaceos, seu Papilionaceos, 
quales in omnibus Leguminibus est videre.’’—Cord. 1. c. 
Although the name Fabaceae as by singular accident is also the one 
accepted nowadays by American authors, and is first mentioned by Cordus, 
the second name has been generally accepted. We would scarcely let 
positional priority go so far as to reject the latter after having been accepted 
by most botanists for over three centuries—WNwd. & Lil. . 
