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present, G brachypoda is placed in synonymy of the clearly related, if not 

 conspecific, G. erecta, awaiting further collections and understanding. 



The transferring authors of the combination Galactia microphylla 

 have been given by Isely (Brittonia 38:352-359. 1986; Vase. Fl. 

 Southeastern U. S. 3(2): 150. 1990) as "Rogers ex Hall & Ward." Though 

 in 1974 D. W. Hall and D. B. Ward had indeed prepared a manuscript, 

 progenitor of the present document, transferring A. W. Chapman's variety 

 microphylla to specific rank, and had acknowledged H. J. Rogers who 

 had proposed the same transfer in his unpublished 1 949 thesis, the Hall- 

 Ward paper was only in draft form when Isely in 1986 called attention 

 to the desirability of specific rank for the taxon. The author credited 

 with this transfer should thus be Isely. The transfer was unnecessary, 

 however, since the taxon is apparently synonymous with G. minor W. 

 H. Duncan (Phytologia 37:59-61. 1977), which has priority at specific 

 rank. 



The name Galactia parvifolia A. Rich, in Sagra has long been used 

 for a plant of south peninsular Florida, but application of the name and 

 the plant's relations to other Florida species was unclear. Access to an 

 isotype (photo, P) confirmed that the name, as applied to Florida plants, 

 is correct. 



A recent proposal that Dioclea multiflora (Torr. & Gray) Mohr be 

 incorporated into Galactia (R. H. Maxwell, Castanea 44:241-246. 1979) 

 is not accepted. Though a case was made that this species is incongruous 

 in its classic assignment to Dioclea HBK., no argument was presented 

 that it would not be even more aberrant within Galactia as historically 

 delimited. 



The authors are grateful to A. R. Vickery, British Museum, for 

 photostats and suggestions regarding typification of Galactia regularis, 

 to A. Lourteig, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, for help 

 with typification of G parvifolia, to Walter S. Judd and Kent D. Perkins 

 for constructively reviewing the manuscript, and especially to Duane 

 Isely for his stimulating enthusiasm for all things leguminous. 



