656 MIMOSACEAE 
2.0— Sila i ealyx about 1.5 mm. lon ng: 
arn 2.5-3 m I E: piod broad: pod 
b 
(Willa. ) "Benth; ]—(Pizckus- -WEED. )— 
soil wi? river banks, various provinces, Fh. 
iA . to Tex., Colo., Minn., and Ohi 
xm 
2. A. depressum (H. B. K.) Kuntze. Stem 
3-8 em. long: blades of RU narrowly 
elliptic, 2-5 mm. long: calyx 1.5-2 mm. lon 
petals 2.5 mm. long; ; can To pod 
3-5.5 mm. Jon [D. dep . K.1 
Pinelands = open sandy places s pen. Fla. 
and the Keys, and Tex.—(W. I., Mez., C. A., 
S. A gem 
9. A. virgatum (L.) Medie. Stem 3-11 dm. long: blades of the vel rd 
x 
to elliptic, 4-8 mm. long: in about 2.5 mm. lon dox E 3 mm. long; 
blades spatulate: pod 6-8 cm. long. [D. virgatus Sud id | Hammocks 
and cultivated grounds, Florida Keys.—(W. I.)—Al 
8. LEPTOGLOTTIS DC. Perennial bid or Rn woody plants, with 
spreading : or prostrate angled prickly stems. Leaves 2-pinnate, sensitive: 
leaflets numerous, entire. Spikes globular, bright-pink or rose-purple alyx- 
lobes minute. Petals united to the middle or above it. Filaments distinc Or 
nearly so. Pod narrow, Mies subulate or linear, t bcd [Schrankia 
Willd. Morongia Britto oe bout t 10 speeies, most of them in tropical an 
temperate Ameriea.—Spr.-sum. pend PLANTS. 
Blades of the leaflets prominently veined beneath. 
Blades of e. b flets obtuse or acutish; pod elongate, 
over 1 dm L. fioridana. 
Blades of the eee cuspidate: pod short, less than 1 
long. L. Nuttallii. 
Blades of the leaflets not prominently veined beneath. 
Po d pru long-beaked, not densely DEickly: prickles 
e peduncles mostly p s wide at the base. 
Blades or the leaflets 3. 5-7 mm : pod mostly 9-15 
L. microphylla. 
Blades lon the, leaflets 9. 5-8. 5 ae long: pod mostly 
cm. long, about L. angustisiliqua. 
Pod stout, short t-bo aked, den PE prickly: prickles of the 
peduncles mostly much widened at the base. L. Chapmanii. 
L. floridana (Chapm.) Small. Stem with the prickles wide at the base: 
pk with the midrib ending at or below the apex: pod mostly 11-15 cm. 
long, armed with broad-based oe long- ni 
beaked: seed about 3 mm S. flori- 
. M. uncinata G SE. U. S.) ] 
—Pinelands, Fla.—Spr.— 
2. L. Nuttalii DC. Stem with the prickles. 
little, ie at all, dilated at the base: leaflets 
with arib oe as a terminal 
usp: perum tly 3-7 cm. long, armed wit 
slende er priskles Bde ea: seed 3.5-4 
g.—D woods and pinelands, 
Coastal Plain and more northern provinces, 
Ala. to Tex., S. Dak., Ill, and S. C.—Sum 
fall.—This, the most widely distributed p 
our species of Leptoglottis, has usually 
passed Gades the specific name of uncinata. 
