16 ON SOME SPECIES OF CRACCA 
subsequently reduced by Torrey and Gray to a variety of the plant 
they ¢ se d T. virginiana. Nuttall’s specimens in the National 
Herbarium show no characters which separate the plant from the 
numerous and proximati 
scarcely excepting the Spe surfaces of the leaves.” Our series of 
specimens shows almost every interme ye in n elothing between 
this and the var. glabra of Torrey and Gray, and we propose to 
pat Nuttall’s sig for the species; those als « consider the more 
n and less silky form deg of varietal aisteaon will 
deabslcee find for it a suitable na 
The synonymy of the plant is "ae follows :-— 
CRACCA HOLOSERICEA. 
Cicer Astragaloides (forte) hk ose hirsuté pubesermes floribus 
subrubentibus, Phytogr. Tab. 23, fig. 2. Pluk. k. Alma- 
gest. p. 103 (1696) et in Herb. Sloane, xciii. 100! cii. 166! 
Raii Hist. iii. Bee ae. 
Vicia ny pinnatis noy. Fl. Serum. ha (1748), ed. 2, 
106 (1762) et fag : (Cason, no. 38) ev 
Cracea virginiana L. Sp. PI. mAATBS) Haga a. Pluk. ae 
(supra citat.) et in gue O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen 178 
(1891); MacMill. aides 328 (1892); Vail in Bull. "Work 
Bot. Club, 1895, 27; Britton & brown n, Ill. Fl. N. Amer. ii. 
292 (cum ic.) Coe, et auct. 
Galega viryiniana L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1062 (1763) (quoad a Pluk. 
Alm.); Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. viii. no. 4, or syn. (1768) ; 
Hill, Veg. Syst. xxi. Pp. 55, t. lv. fig. 1 (mala) se ie bbe 
: Amer. 
. ~ 
Tephrosia Veninans Pers. Syn. ii. 329 (1807) ; ’ Pursh, Fl. Amer. 
Se i. 489 (1814); Nutt. Gen. Amer. Pl. ii. 119 (1818); 
lhiott, Bot. S. Carol. ii, 245 (1824); DOC. Prodr. ii. 250 
Cae Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. ii. 295 (1888) ; Chapm. 
United jai 94 (1860) ; S. Wats. ae Index, 260 
(1878); Robinson in Bot. Gaz. xviii. 196 (1899). 
Tephrosia virginica Bigel. "Pi. Boston. (sphalm.) ed. 2, 278 (1824). 
Tephrosia holosericea Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad. vii. 105 (1834). 
Tephrosia ot geri : Si holosericea Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. ii. 296 
18388) ; Bibl. Spee 260 (1878) ; Robinson in Bot. 
Gaz. xviii. 196 (1899 
Cracca virginiana holosericea : Vail in Bull. Torr. ae 1895, 27; 
ritton & Brown, Ill. Fl. N. Amer. ii. 293 (1897). 
III. Cracca SanieAionr sp. n. 
There remains for consideration a plant collected by Seemann 
in Mexico (Sierra Madre, no. 2191), which is cited as 7’. virginiana 
(= Cracca holosericea) by Mr. Hemsley (Bot. Biol. Centr.-Amer. 
i. 258), and was noted by Bentham on the sheet in the National 
