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mens lo, unequal, upper 3 imperfect ; anthers brown : ovary cov- 

 ered by long, outward-spreading hairs : pod falcate or nearly 

 straight, linear, much compressed, 7-1 ( cm. long, 6 mm. wide and 

 about 1.5 mm. thick, freely dehiscent along both sutures, brown, 

 hirsute, the hairs pointing outward, apex acuminate, margins some- 

 times undulate, septa oblique, externally indicated by sharply 

 defined narrow depressions: seeds lO-i 5, transverse, orbicular- 

 quadrate, very flat, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 1 mm. thick, funiculus 

 bent. 



Specimens examined;* Massachusetts: Shirley, 1882, //' 

 II. Manning ; Roxbury, 1899, Z. T. Chamberlain. New York: 

 Peekskill, no date. Dr. Torrcy ; West Point, 1882, /;". A. Mearns ; 

 Madison Co., 1893, and Herkimer Co., 1901, H. D. House. New 

 Jekskv : Connecticut h'arm, 1820, Torrey Herbarium ; Atlantic 

 Co., 1883(70(5'), C. A. Gross. Pennsylvania: Bethlehem, 1832, 

 C. J. Mflser ; Mercer Co., no date, f. T. Ase/unatin ; Fayette 

 Co., 1890, C. C. Mellor ; Lancaster Co., 1883 {joS), fas. Galen ; 

 McCalls Ferry, 1893, /. A'. Small ; Beaver Co., 1900, Alle- 

 gheny Co., several stations, /. A. Sliafer ; Westmoreland Co., 

 1900 and 1902, Katherine R. Holmes, and 1904, /. A. Medsger. 

 West Virginia : Harper's Ferry, 1878, G. Gnttenberg ; Hutton- 

 ville, 1890, and Minton, 1891, C. F. Millspangh. Virginia: 

 Wythe Co., 1892, /. A'. Small. North Carolina: Biltmore 

 Herbarium, 1896-7 (,""0/ and jp/(!^), and iSgo, Marj E. Reynolds. 

 Tennessee: Knox Co., 1894, T. H. Kearney, Jr.; 1896, A. 

 Ruth. Kentucky: Fairbank, 1840, C. IV. Short. Also many 

 specimens in the local herbarium of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



Cassia Medsgeri sp. nov. 



Plant erect, 0.75-1.5 m. high, scarcel\- branched: stem longi- 

 tudinally furrowed, smooth or nearly so, often purplish. : leaves 

 with petiolar gland near the base, cylindrical or abruptly con- 

 stricted at its base ; stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, ca- 

 ducous ; leaflets 8-16, elliptical, unequally rounded at the base, 

 mucronate, with reflexed, entire margins, green, slightly glaucous 

 beneath, 3-5 cm. long, about one-third as wide : inflorescence 

 corymbose, glabrous or nearly so, axillary and terminal, flowers 

 rather few : calyx -lobes somewhat petaloid : petals broadl\' 



* Contained in the herbaria of Columbia Cniversity, the New \'ork Botanical 

 (Jarden, and the Carnegie .Museum. 



