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Trifolium psoraloides Walt. Fl. Car. 184. 1788. 
Psoralea melilotoides Michy. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:58. 1803, 
P. eglandulosa WIL. Sk. 2:198. 1824. 
El. Sk.1l.e. Gray, Man. ed. 6,180, Chap, FI. 92. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, 
Louisiana, and Mississippi to North Carolina and Tennessee, 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Coast Pine belt. Gravelly and 
rocky places. Lauderdale County, in the barrens. Winston County (7, M, Peters). 
St. Clair County, Coosa hills; abundant. ‘Tuscaloosa County (/. 4. Smith), Wilcox 
County (Buckley). Clarke County, Choctaw Corner, Washington County, Yellow- 
pine. Flowers June, July. Fruit purplish, Frequent. Rootstock long, cylindrical. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
Psoralea simplex Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, F1.N.A.1:308, 1840. 
Anna M. Vail, Bull. Torr, Club, 21: 110. 
Lonisianian area. Southern Mississippi to Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Indian 
- Territory. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region to Coast plain. Springy grassy banks, low wet 
thickets. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County, Mon Louis Island. Flow- 
ers deep blue. June. One and one half to 2 feet high, From a turbinate tuberous 
thick spindle-shaped or cylindrical rootstock, over 6 inches in length, Rare. 
Type locality: ‘*Vlains of Red River, Arkansas, Nuttall! Texas, Drummond!” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr, 
Psoralea canescens Michx. I'l. Bor. Ain, 2:57. 1803. 
EM. Sk.2:195. Chap. F192. 
Louisianian area. Florida to North Carolina and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry gravelly pine barrens. Baldwin County, 
blutts at Montrose. Flowers maize-yellow, May, June. Rootstock fusiform. Not 
frequent. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Carolina et Georgia.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb. Mohr. 
AMORPHA I... Sp. Pl. 2:715. 1753.) Parse INDIGO. 
Fight species, shrubs, temperate North America. 
Amorpha fruticosa L. Sp. V1.2: 718. 1753. 
Ell. Sk. 2:188, Gray, Man. ed. 6, 132, Chap. 11.95. Coulter, Contr, Nat. Herb. 
2: 76. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Pennsylvania to Florida, west to Texas, 
Arkansas, Colorado, and Manitoba, near Lake Winnipeg. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the State. Damp shady bottom lands, low banks of streams. 
Flowers deep blue, April, May. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Carolina,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Amorpha glabra Desf. Tabl. Hort. Par, 192. 1804. Smootit AMORPHA, 
Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1:305. Beadle, Bot. Gaz, 25: 279. 
Suffrutescent, perennial, 3 to 44 inches high, nearly glabrous; stem slender, erect 
or ascending, leaty throughout, purplish and more or less verrucose; leaves 6 to 8 
inches long and 1 to 1} inches wide, with 12 to 20 pairs of oblong or elliptical petiolu- 
late leailets, apiculate by the excurrent midrib; spikes densely tlowered, 6 to 8 inches 
long, panicled; tlowers short-pedicelled ; vexillum violet-blue, stvle hairy; calyx 
glandular, more or less villous on the margins of the unequal divisions, pod one- 
seeded, about 8 lines long and 1 line wide, glandular-roughened, the dorsal suture 
straight. ! 
Louisianian area, Coast of North Carolina to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain, borders of swamps. Mobile County, West Fowl River; 
marshes of Mobile River. Flowers blue. May, June. Infrequent. 
‘Type locality not ascertained. 
Amorpha virgata Small, Bull. Torr, Club, 21:17, 1894, Mountain FALSE INDIGO, 
Carolinian area, Mountains of Georgia, 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Rocky woods, Jackson County, wooded ridges at 
Gurley’s, 1,200 feet. Clay County, Che-aw-ha Mountain, 2,000 to 2,100 feet. To all 
appearances not rare on the highest ranges. 
1 Deseription drawn from (. D. Beadle, le. 
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