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at all soft. The above 4 sp. are quite distinct, 
and may be the JB. villosa or mollis of some 
Authors, which f add here for contrast and 
comparison, although 1 have not seen them. 
333. Lasinia cinerea Raf. B. villosa of Au- 
thors, stern and leaves beneath pubescent, sti- 
pules linear, leaves subsessile, folioles elliptic 
obtuse — in Carolina, Michaux says the flowers 
are pale, Elliot calls them grey. 
334. JLasinia mollis R. Bapt. do Mx. 
Quite pubescent soft decumbent, stipules lan- 
ceolate folioles, leaves petiolate, folioles rhom- 
boid a I lanceolate, calix acute — in North Caro- 
lina, flowers dark yellow, omitted by Elliot, dis- 
covered by Mx. found by Nuttal on the Cataw- 
ba ridge, leaves 2 inches long one wide, pod 
small oblong acuminate. 
335. JLasinia bracteata Raf. Bapt. do Mg. 
Elliot, &lq leucophea Nuttal &c — quite pubes^ 
cent hispid, branches angular divaricate, leaves 
and folioles sessile, stipules large ovate acute, 
folioles cuneate obtuse, racemes multiflore se- 
cond, bracts large lanceolate — from Carolina 
to Louisiana and Missouri, fine striking sp. fo- 
lioles 3 inches long narrow, young leaves yel- 
low beneath, flowers large on long peduncles, 
called ochroleucous by Nuttal, grey by Elliot, 
they are become brown in my Specimen. 
Vernal. 
Decandole appears to have misunderstood 
some of these sp. he divides the bracteata and 
leucophea , while he deems the first the mollis 
of Mx. but has another mollis of Nuttal .... 
336. PERICAUL0N Raf. calix campanu- 
late unequaly 4fid, upper bidentate, petals e- 
qual papih not spreading, vexillum carinate e- 
marginate ainplectens not refiexed, stamens 10 
