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prairies. Shrubby, many stems form a large ligneous root, 
one or two feet high. Upper surface of the leaves smooth, 
and with the petals, destitute of the black glands. “ Petals 
yellow ; stamens red." 
380. Cassia (Cuammsenna) LinDHEIMERIANA (Scheele in 
Linnea, 91. p. 451): perennis, undique tomento sericeo mol- 
lissimo albicans; foliolis 6 - S-jugis oblongis utrinque obtusis 
basi inzequalibus aristato-mucronatis subtus argenteo-sericeis ; 
glandula cum stipite tomentoso setiformi inter omnia paria ; 
stipulis subulatis caducis; racemis folium zequantibus pluri- 
floris; legumine lato-lineari complanato parce pilosulo. — 
ocky plains and margin of woods, New Braunfels, &c. 
September. Also found by Mr. Wright from San Marcos to 
the Rio Grande. — Stems 4 or 5 feet high, from a thick, 
perennial root, clothed like the petioles, peduncles, stipules, 
&c. with a dense velvety tomentum. Leaflets from one to 
nearly two inches in length, silky above, silvery-sericeous 
beneath, tipped with a very conspicuous mucro. The seti- 
form gland, with its stipe, between each pair, is a line long. 
Petals golden yellow with dark veins, half an inch in length. 
Anthers 7, chocolate-colored ; the three upper stamens rudi- 
mentary. Legumes 2 inches long, over 2 lines wide. Seeds 
as in the section. — A species apparently allied to C. argentea 
and C. mollissima, H. B. K. 
* a s £T, 
1 The subjoined, very disti 1l i 
OFFMANSEGGIA CAUDATA (sp. nov.): panei o ramis petu superne ra- 
hecho orum gland ulis minimis rariter conspersis ; foliis bipinnatis ; pinnis 2- 3- 
jugis abrupte 2-  10-foliolatis, cum impari st 24- pral foliolis glaberrimis 
' lis bracteisque cadu- 
cis; racemo sparsifloro ;_ legumine acinaciformi dil atato naeh es — Sandy soil, 
the Nueces and the Rio Grande, ee. Mr. A Cortes Wright. August, 
September. — This species is remarkable for thness (some small tack-ehaped 
glands only occurring on the calyx, or a fi il mi upper 
. of the branches and the qo) sad for 4 the psi oh of the terminal pinna; 
which is two or t h, and bears many pairs of leaflets; while the 
ulat 
Legume nearly two inches long and two thirds of an inch wide, flat, reticulated, fur- 
SANUS Saee ag: A subsessile blackish ae There are no 
expanded flowers d fi 
