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which is evidently G. villosa, Mx. I am uncertain 

 \vl]ether my G. amb'igua is not G. paucifolia, N. but it 



mot be G. vUlosa; Mx. 

 Galega chrysophyJla^ Ph. 



I collected la single speci- 

 men of this at Savannah, sine fl» one of the leaves of 

 whigh has seven leaflets. 



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angustifollum. 



Stem 2—3 feet high, pubescent^ scabrous, particularly 

 in the panicle; leaves subsessile; leaflets linear, 12 — 18 

 lines long, 2 — 3 wide, minutely pubescent, but smooth ; 



subulate ; 



stipules 



panicle tern)inal, large, expanding, 



branches simple- Loment 2 — 3 jointed, very hispid. 

 Hab. sandy shaded soils. 



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Carolinidna, 



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ter's description, I do not know if this is his plant, though 

 it is the one passing among botanists under the above 

 name, and is that of the Flora Cestrica. It is not the 

 A. Caroliniana of Elliott. 



A. Virginica is the same with Elliott's, and Bigelow's, 

 and is that of Linnaeus secund. Pluk. Phyt. T. 99, f. 4. 



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This plant is found as far 



north as Newbern N. C- and from the mouth of Cape 

 Fear river nearly to Fayetteville. Elliott says, on the au- 

 thority of Gen. Pinckney, that it grows along the lower 

 branches of the Santee in S. Carolina. Dr. Bachman 

 has received it from Georgetown, S. C. ; and Mr. Audu- 

 bon informed me, with the plant before us, that he has 

 seen it in Florida, of enormous size. I think it not im- 

 probable, therefore, that it inhabits the savannahs, more 

 or less abundantly, from the latter place to Newbern. It 

 is found in great abundance for many miles around Wil- 

 mmgton, in every direction. I venture a short notice of 



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