914 Engelmann and Gray, 
ing from the internal angle at the summit. S. Elliottii has 
narrower leaves, shorter peduncles, and about 9 orbicular car- 
pels, which are only slightly bimucronate. 
25. Marvaviscus DnuuuoNpn, Torr. & Gr. Fl. L P. 230. 
Wet places, Houston. August. Leaves 4 or 5 inches in 
breadth. This proves to be a very ornamental plant in culti- 
vation. 
26. Vrris BIPINNATA, Torr. & Gr. Prairies, Houston. 
une. a 
9T. Vicia — ANA, Nutt. Galveston and Houston. 
April. e: (om 
28. VicNA GLABRA. Savi? Thickets, Houston, &c. 
June, July. — The’ plant is hirsute, but the leaves are almost 
glabrous when old; the flowers hardly larger than those of 
the garden bean; the vexillum: pale yellow, the carina deep 
yellow. | begino compressed, somewhat torulose, black, 
hirsute with whitish hairs; thé seed black, with a white 
hilum. "The leaflets are broadly oval; but there isa variety 
B ANGUsTIFOLIA, which has Lingeolate or linear-lanceolate 
leaves. - Near brackish water on the coast of Galveston Pay 
July. 
29. Ruynenosta minima, DC. ; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1. p- 681. 
Houston. September. 
30. R. weNisPERMOIDEA, DC. With the preceding, in 
hard, clayey soil. 
31. DavnENTONIA LONGIFOLIA, DC. Houston. August. 
89. TEPHROSIA ONÒBRYCHOIDES; Nutt. A variety with 
silvery pubescence, and somewhat persistent stipules. Flow- 
ers white, soon turning to pale scarlet; the vexillum green 
in the middle. Puis from Houston to the Brazos. Apri, 
August. “i: Se Rd 
83. T. VIRGINIANA, Pers., and . E pis 
84. Ixp1GOFERA LEPTOSEPALA, Nutt Homan and the 
Brazos, June, July. , 
. 95. PsoRALEA RHOMBIFOLIA, Torr. d Gr. Fl. L P 303. 
Sandy places, Galveston Island, May. (Also collected by Dr. 
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