58 UNITED STATES ANt> MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 



is sometimes 1| inch in diameter. It is a rare species in California, but is not uncommon in 

 the gardens of Europe, into which it is generally thought to have been introduced from South 

 America; but we strongly suspect tliat the seeds" were brought by Meuzies to England from 

 California. 



LupiNU.^ LiiTORALis,, Dougl. ; Agardh, I. c. p. 36. Monterey, Calirornia_, May ; Parry. 



SoPHORA SERICEA, Nutt, Gen. 1, p. 280; Gray^ PI. Wright. \, p. 54. Low moist places along 

 the Rio Grande and its tributaries, from New Mexico to San Elceario ; also in Goahuila ; May 



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SoPHORA SPECiosA, Benfli. ; Gray^ PI. Wright. 1, j9. 54. Piocky valley of the Pecos ; Septem- 

 T^ (in fruit ;) Bigelow, Fort Inge, Texas ; Parry. Rinconada Pass^ Neuvo Leon ; Thurber, 

 SoPHORA TOMENTOSA;, Linn.; Torr. 4: Gray. Fl. 1, '/>. 389, Brazos^ Santiago, Texas; May; 



Schott 



Thermopsis eabacea, 1)0 



& Grav. Fl 



Napa county, California^ March ; Thurher. Near the summit of the mountains east of San 

 DiegO; California, June ; Parry, 



Olneya tesota, Gray^ PL Thurh. p. 328; Torr. in Pacif. Railroad Exj)l. 7, p. 10, t. 5. 

 Ravines in the table lands on the lower Gila, often in company with Cercidium floridum ; Parry ^ 

 Thurher. HilLs near Fort Yuma, California, January ; ScJiott. 



Cercis occidentalts, Torr. in Gray^ PI. Lindheim. 2, p. 177. Valley of the Devil's river, 

 western Texas ; Bigeloio, Also in California. Mr. Blake informs me that the camels, lately 

 imported into the United States, are very fond of the leaves of this plant. 



Hoffmaxseggia Jamesii^ Torr. & Gray, FL 1, p. 54; Gray^ PL Wright. 2, p. 49- Sandy 

 places near Fort Fillmore, and other places, in New Mexico, April — September ; Bigeloiv. 



Hoffmaxseggia caudata, Gray, PL Lindh. 2, p. 179; PL Wright. 1, p. 54. On the lower 

 Rio Grande, April ; Schott. In our specimen's there are from 2 — 4 pinna?. The leaflets vary 

 from 4 to 7 pairs in the lateral pinnae, and from 9 — 15 (rarely only 7) in the terminal one. Some- 

 times they are scarcely a line in length. 



Hoffmaxseggia micropiiylla (n. sp.:) puberuia ; ramis elongatis virgatis ; pinnis uuijugis 

 cum impari, lateralibus 10 — 12-foliolati8, terminali 14 — 20-foliolata, foliolis minutis oblongis 

 eglandulosis ; bracteis stipulis(jue caducis ; racemo laxifloro elongato; legumine subfalcato 

 acuto glandulis subsessilibus asperato. Sandy desert of the Colorado, California ; Schott. Plant 

 apparently two feet or more in height. Stem and branches green, minutely velvetty, pubescent. 

 Lateral pinn^ 3 — 4 lines long, the terminal one nearly twice as long. Leaflets scarcely a line 

 in length, pubescent. Calyx softly pubescent. Corolla yellow ; the claws of all, and the back 

 of the vexillum, somewhat glandular. Ovary thickly covered with pale disciform glands. Pods 



sessile, about | of an inch long and nearly 3 linos wide, nearly straight on the upper suture, 

 4 — 6-seeded. 



Hoffmaxseggia oxycarpa, ( 



river, Texas, May ; Bigeloiv. 



Wright, 1, p. 55. Vail 



San 



Hoffmaxseggia stricta, Benth. in Gray, PL Wright. 1, p. 56. Sterile soils along the Rio 



Grande, from 



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ew Mexico, April — July. 



H. stricta /?. DE:vnsSA, Gray, L c. San Elceario ; Parry. On the Pecos ; Schott. 



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HoFFMANSEGGiA MELANOSTICTA, Gray, I, c. p, 54, (adnot,) Pomaria melanosticta, Schauer. On 

 the Eio Grande below the caiioQ of San Carlos, October, (in flower and fruit ;) Parry. Ri^' 

 conada, and Monterey, Neuvo Leon ; Dr, Edwards. Our plant differs somewhat from the 



