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note in this connection is preserved in the Chapman Herbarium, where 
it is associated with material collected in the cedar barrens of Ten- 
nessee, and written by Dr. Gattinger, as follows: “ Can impossibly. be 
wm introduced plant! Is one of the characteristic spring plants of the 
cedar barrens.” 
AMORPHA GLABRA Desf. Cat. h. Par. 192. 1804.—Much uncertainty 
regarding the genus Amorpha as represented in the south Atlantic 
sates is plainly displayed by writers, and with a view to clearing away 
some of this uncertainty I propose the restoration of a neglected 
species. Torrey & Gray” give a description of A. Caroliniana Croom. 
(A. cynostachya Curtis), a name they replace on page 690 of the same 
vork by 4. glabra Desf., and it is remarkable that this plant should in 
later times be associated with A. fruticosa L.8 I have not at hand the 
original description of Desfontaines, and that in the Prodromus “is at 
best poorly applicable to Croom’s A. Caroliniana, but on the evidence 
% Torrey & Gray, as above cited, I adopt the name and append a 
more tenable description. 
A suffrutescent perennial, 1-1.5"™ high, nearly glabrous. Stems. 
“eral, slender, erect or ascending and leafy throughout, purplish and 
= or less verrucose : leaves 1. 5—2™ long, 3-4™ wide : leaflets 12-20 
Pits, oblong or elliptical, petiolulate, stipellate, punctate and apiculate 
the excurrent midrib : spikes 1.5-2°" long, panicled, densely 
ed: calyx glandular, more or less villous on the margins of the 
mequal or dissimilar teeth, short pedicelled and the tube furrowed : 
*eulllum violet blue : style hairy: pod one-seeded, 4-5" long, 2" 
ad, glandular roughened, the dorsal suture straight.—Low, sandy 
the Biltiny, from North Carolina to Florida as shown by specimens 1m 
.* aire . hich it 
i very closel may be distinguished from A. herbacea Walt., pels ara 
“e y related, by its smoothness, more slender habit, and brig 
, OWers; from A. virgata Small by the diminutive legumes, 
sight j sag as numerous leaflets; and from 4. fruticosa Mae 
a ities suture of the small, one-seeded pods. J have © ge 
ee — forms that would warrant the consideration - 
Variety of 4. herbacea. 
STYLOSANTHES RIPARIA Kearney, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 24: 565- 1897- 
a that agree substantially with the characters assigned to 
TaN. Am. 1: : +256. 1825. 
*Seaexo ally ?305. 1838-1840. 4DC. Prodr. 2: 256. 1825 
SON, Bibliog. Index 188. 1878. 
