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8. Sophia and its relatives. If Dr. Hooker has taken one extreme 
view in suggesting the union of numerous American forms with this ra. 
world species, Dr. Fournier has certainly gone to the eee and has 
oduced some new species upon ins ufficient rounds or wrong co njec: 
tures. A review of the materials ss us leads to the following remarks 
upon the N Bee American forms 
S. canescens Nutt., is our only ‘pasion with heen two-ranked seeds, 
these being much narrower than the partition. e pods vary from 
short-oblong or slightly clavate-oblong to oblong-linear and are shorter 
than their horizontal or sometimes ascending pedicels, = brachycarpum 
Rich. is a short-fruited form of this, at least in part, S. Cu ape fom 
Fisch., is the South American representative, with pe longer than the 
pedicel ; but some of nt specimens iat well justify Rocker and 
Arnott’s reference of a: o S. canescen 
. tncisum Engelm. mati belongs s. tae apace (excl. syn.), 
and probably S. strech m of Fournier, is the pla ust a 
pro S. 8 having slender pods with cma se We 
linearibus,” and the “ Facies S. Sophie, at facile pened siliquis 
duplo brevioribus,” but the added remarks “4 lineas longa, lineam lata,” 
and “ . edicello patenti brevior,” pes rea 2 canescens. The pals are only 
06 orrarely 7 or 8 lines long, and more or less assurgent on 
widely ipreitiag or horizontal paittasle * hich are sometimes z ‘ee own 
len even longer, but are usually considerably shorter. It ditfers 
hay S. Sophia, then, j in the herd and spreading s. But Mexican 
specimens, ath as Coulter’s 683 and Gregg’s 408 (referable we suppose 
to Fournier’s 8S, Catoctin}, with ‘their “decidedly ascending pedicels 
and pot onaee the interval. 
wegianum Foerake (the Hartwegian specimen of which we 
unacountaby lack, but we have the Gaskatchawan plant of Bourgeau) 
nown by its short erect-appressed pedicels and pods, the latter ‘short- 
linear or somewhat fusifor i and “2 to 5 sin long, crowded with seeds i 
‘ee phia L., marked pep snag linear pods mee an inch 
ong), aa or assurgent on ascending pedicels, and one-ran 
belongs mee to the Old World, but is naturalized in Lower Canada, 
he 
xi, p. 360 simply copied fons DeCandolle’s chaser of 
ar ar may add ce neither shan speci — — the pub- 
lichset figures r’s character, 
“ pedicelli ee tn nele ne aaa 
contre Uaxe.” is an 
