558 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
BAPTISIA Vent. Dec. Gen. Nov.9. 1808. 
Fourteen species, perennials, Atlantic North America, largely southeastern. 
Baptisia lanceolata (Walt.) Ell. Sk.1:467. 1817. LANCEOLATE FALSE INDIGO. 
Sophora lanceolata Walt. FP). Car. 185, 1788. 
Podalyria uniflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 1: 263. 1803. 
Ell. Sk. 1:467. Chap. Fl. 111. 
Louisianian area, Florida to North Carolina, west to Louisiana and Arkansas, 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry pine barrens. Baldwin County. Flowers 
yellow. April; rare. 
Almost glabrous, flowers mostly single, rarely in pairs. 
Type locality: South Carolina, 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Baptisia leucantha Torr. & Gray, I'l. N.A.1:385. 1840. 
WHITE-FLOWERED FALSE INDIGO, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,126. Chap. FI. 112. 
farolinian and Louisianian areas. Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, south to Ohio, 
Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Louisianian area, Damp banks. Washington County. Flowers 
white. May; rare. 
Type locality: “In rich alluvial soil, Upper Canada (near Lake Erie), Michigan! 
Ohio! to Louisiana!” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Baptisia megacarpa Chap. }FI1.111. 160. 
Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 121. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, Georgia, middle Florida, 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Metamorphic hills. Open woodlands. Tallapoosa 
County, Dadeville (Biltmore Herb. 1899). Flowers pale yellow, May. Perennial. 
Rare. 
Type locality: ‘* Light rich soil, Gadsden County, middle Florida, and along the 
Flint River, near Albany, Ga.” 
THERMOPSIS Rk. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 3: 3. 1811. 
One hundred and twenty-three species, perennial herbs. Siberia, Himalayan 
India. North America, 7. 
Thermopsis fraxinifolia Nutt.in Torr. & Gray, Fl.N.A.1: 387. 1840. 
Chap. FI]. 113. 
Carolinian area, North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain near Mentone 
(May, 1899, Miss Loring). Rare. 
Type locality: ‘*Found chiefly upon the Catawba ridge, North Carolina, in open 
bushy forests.” 
CROTALARIA I. Sp. P1.2: 714. 1753.) Rarrie-rop, 
Two hundred and fifty species, of warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
Crotalaria rotundifolia (Walt.) Poir. Eneyel, Suppl. 2:402. 1811, 
ROUND-LEAF RarrLE Box. 
Anonymos rotundifolia Walt. Fl. Car. 181. 1788. 
Crotalaria sagittifolia var. rotundifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 2:55, 1803. 
C. ovalis Pursh, Fl, Am. Sept. 2:469. 1814. 
ENM.Sk.2:194. Chap. FI. 89. 
MEXxXIco, SOUTH AMERICA, 
‘arolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia, North Carolina to Florida, west to 
Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry sandy open woods. Cullman 
County, 800 feet. Pike County, Troy, Chilton County, Verbena (#. 4. Smith). Lee 
County, Auburn, 860 feet (Baker §: Karle). Escambia County (Baker §° Earle), Mobile 
County. Flowersyellow. May, June; fruit black, June. Most frequent throughout 
the Central and Coast Pine belts. Perennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Crotalaria sagittalis L.Sp.V1.2:714. 17 
Ell. Sk. 2:298. Gray, Man. ed.6, 127. ¢ 
53. COMMON RATYTLE-PEA, 
Shap. F1. 89. 
