ACMISPOJf. 53 
er Heliopsis. These 4 figured in my Autikon 
11 to 14. 
ACMISPON Raf. Atl. jour, meaning point 
hooked. Differing from Trigonella , 13ucer- 
atesy Plalycarpos and Lotus. Even Torrey 
said that it ought to be a genus, and Bentham 
unites it to Hosackia. 
Calix deeply 5 cleft, vexillum and wings equal, 
pod stipitate smooth strait, compressed, swelled 
and hooked at the point. Leaves ternate, Silky . 
1. A. serk'eum Raf. Lotus do. Pursh, Tri- 
gonella americana , Nut. T. E. well described 
by Nuttal, flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile. 
From Missouri to Carolina, rare, probably 2 sp. 
blended : both seen dry. 
2, A. multiflorum Raf. peduncles axillary 
and terminal, muitillore nearly in a spike or um- 
bel. Missouri. Is not the Carolina plant this ? 
or a peculiar sp ! Which is the Hosackia pur- 
shiana of Bentham ? The true Hosackia have 
pinnate leaves, pods cylindrical, keel rostrate 
instead of the pods. 
ACNIDA of Linneus. Genus better known 
since Michaux corrected account, copied by all 
our botanists except Elliot. But the original 
A, canabina L. is not known to our botanists; 
they all mean that of Michaux. Linneus de- 
scribed his species as follow. — -A. canabina. 
Root flexuose, stem white, petiols purplish 
smooth, leaves pinnate velutine, folioles 5 to 
7 narrow acute , spikes axillary foliose, fl. fern, 
cal. 2phyl. 5 styles. In Virginia salt marshes. 
Such a plant with pinnate leaves cannot be of 
this Genus. Could Linneus have described the 
leaves of another plant mixt with Acnida flow- 
ers ? Could this be over again his Datisca hir - 
ta found by no one since ? Sir James Smith 
