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[June, 1856. 



a lyre. Rostrum horizontal, much produced, rounded anteriorly, with three 

 subacute crenulations on each side. Eyes small, retractile. 

 From the Sulu Sea, East Indies. 



Our figure of C.fornicala, given on preceeding page, appears to combine 

 several peculiarities of form exhibited in the figures given by Adams & White, 

 of C.fornicala and of C. dorsalis, so as to make it doubtful whether the two 

 are distinct. 



5. Cryptopodia axgulosa. 

 Cryptopodia angulosa, Edwards and Hadie, Archives du Museum d'Hist. 

 Nat., tome. ii., p. 481, pi. 28, fig. 6. 

 Description. — Carapax pentagonal, with crenate margins; length 1.12 

 inches, breadth 2.40 inches, Locality unknown. 



Description of a new Baplisia found near Aiken, S. C. By H. W.Rayenel. 



I desire to make this Society the medium of publishing a new species of 

 Baptisia, which I have discovered in the " Sand hills," in the neighbourhood 

 of Aiken. 



The honoured Botanist, whose name this Society bears, aided by his 

 numerous friends and correspondents, has scrutinized, with such diligence 

 and ability, the floral regions of our State, that his " Sketch," which modest- 

 ly claimed but a fragment of 'the harvest, has left for future reapers only 

 scanty gleanings in the field of Pheenogarnous Botany. The " Sand hill" 

 region of our State, the Flora of which is well marked and characteristic, 

 has furnished two species of Baptisia, which seem to have escaped his ob- 

 servation, viz. the subject of the present notice, whose characters are given 

 below; and Bapiisia Serena, Curtis, found some five or six years ago in 

 the Sand hills, about Society Hill, and published by Dr. Curtis in vol. vii. 

 of Silliman's Journal for 1849. p. 406, and which I have also found here. 

 These two, and B. perfoliate, R. Br., appear to be confined to the " Sand 

 hills." 



The two former are rather rare, (of Bapiisia Serence, I have found but two 

 specimens) but the latter is very common here; and with Ceratiola Ericoi- 

 cles and Eriogonum tomentosum, is a peculiar characteristic of this region. 



In addition to these three, just named, I find Bapiisia tinctoria, R. Br., 

 B. alba, R. Br., and B. leucophaa, Nettall. These three last have a wider 

 range. 



Baptisia stipulacea. Plate II. 

 Species nova glabra ; caule 



ramosissimo, ramisque patentibus. Foliis trifoliolatis. petiolatis. foliolis sub- 

 rotundo-obovatis,basi cuneatis, petiolum excedentibus. Stipulis foliaceis, au- 

 ricidato-cordatis, obtusis, subamplexicaulibus, persistentibus, petiolo Jongiori- 

 bus. Racemis terminalibus, laxifloris, declinatis. Leguminibus inflatis, sub 

 rotundis, pedicellatis. 



