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A. microphylla Pursh II., 466. Which should be re- 

 garded as the strongest evidence — specimens found in a 

 foreign herbarium and plants sent out from a foreign nurs- 

 ery on the one hand, or ou the other the author's own 

 words in print, strenghthened by those of Pursh, who states 

 that his A. microphylla is the same as A. nana of Fraser's 

 Catalogue? The A. nana of Fraser's nursery may be 

 whatever it please. 

 Dalea dalea (L.) Mac M. Torr. Bull. XIX. (1892) 

 Psoralea dalea L. Spec. PI,, 764 (1753) 

 Dalea alepecuroides Willd. Spec. PI. Ill, 1336. (1803) 

 Dalea eneneandra Nutt. Fraser's Cat. (1813) 



Dalea laxiflora Pursh PI. 741. (1814) 

 Kuhniastera compacta (Spreng.) OK. Kev. Gen., 192. (1891) 

 Dalea compacta Spreng. Syst., 327. (1826) 

 Petalostemon macrostachyus Torr. Ann. Lye, N. Y., 176. 

 (1828) 

 Kuhniastera Lam. was founded in 1789, Petalostemon Michx. 

 in 1803. 

 Kuhniastera purpurea (Vent.) Mac M. Met. Minn. Vail., 329. 

 (1892) 

 Dalea purpurea Yent. Hort. Cels., 40. (1800) 

 Petalostemon violaceus Michx. Fl. II., 50. (1803) 

 Kuhniastera Candida (Michx.) OK. Eev. Gen. 192. (1891) 



Petalostemon candidus Michx. ll. II., 49. (1803) 

 Kuhniastera multiflora (Nutt.) OK. I.e. 



Petalostemon multiflorus Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad VII 

 92. 



Kuhniastera villosa (Nutt.) OK. I.e. 



Petalostemon villosus Nutt. Gen. II., 85. (1818) 

 Astragalus ceramicus Sheldon Minn. Bot. Stud. No. 9 19 

 (1894) 

 Phaca picta Gray PL Fend. 37. (1849) 

 Astragalus pictus Gray Proc. Am. Acad. VI., 214 (1866), 

 not A. pictus Steud. (1840), nor A. pictus Boiss (1853)- 



