CASSIACEAE 663 
Leaflets 12-20, small, e mm. long: co- l 
rolla about 2.5 cm. wide. 6. C. depressa. 
Leaflets pubescent with incurved or spreading 
airs 
Eo and pedicel pubescent with incurved 
7. C. mississippiensis. 
P and pedicel pubescent with spreading 
hair 8. C. littoralis. 
Corolla E less than 1 cm. wide: one petal much 
Harper s the other four: stamens 59: pedicel 1 
long or more. 
Petiolar cmd a with a discoid head much wider than 
the stalk-like base: corolla with the odd petal 
twice as long as the others: pod pubescent with 
r 
Leaflets glabrous: sepals puberulent: pod finely ap- 
pressed-pubescent. 9. C. procumbens. 
Leaflets pubescent: sepals hirsute: pod h 
Petiolar gland with the head iie wider Em the 10. C. Mohr. 
stalk : corolla - nd the n pou less than twice as 
long as the others: po 
C. keyensis Poe a short and usually conto m stems S ry 
or several t together, 1-8 dm. tall, closely gray-hirsute: leaves gray-pubescent, 
the larger ones 2.5—8.5 em. long: petiolar 
gl .5 mm. wide: 
leaflets 4—9 pairs, 4-9 mm. long; blades 
oval, elliptie, linear, or obovate: sepals 8—9 
m. long, or rarely larger, hirsute: petals 
deep-yellow, 9-10 mm. long: anthers reddish- 
ple 
land, Big Pine Key, Fla.— All yea 
2. C. Deeringiana Small & Pennell. Root- 
stock horizontal: stems solitary or few to- 
her, 3-9 dm. t 
epr scoid, 
ee s wide: leaflets 12-20 pairs, 8-18 mm. long; blades linear or nearly 
rl 
or mucronate: sepals 10-12 mm , glabrous or | ei SO: Sia 
bright. yellow, 14-21 mm. long: anthers a or reddish, 8 m ong o 
od 5 wide, green: seed about 4 mm. lon ng.—Ro cky Kee Everelade 
-sum. 
po 
Keys, "Fla. "and lower Florida Keys.—Spr. 
3. C. brachiata Pollard. Stem 8—24 dm ^er puc widely apenas: stipules 
eciliate: petiolar gland single or sometimes discoid or saucer-shaped, 
1.5-2.5 mm. wide: leaflets 10—25 pairs, oe mm. i. NM linear SA linear- 
lanceolate, acute-mucronate: pedicels glabrous or nearly so: sepals 10-12 mm. 
long, reddish " Far pod 6-10 em. long—Pinelands, Coastal Plain, Fla. 
and Ala.—All —A decoction made with cold water is used by the Semi- 
spe in cases of a een 
C. fasciculata (Michx.) Greene. Stem 3-9 dm. tall, often much- ee 
bout 1 e 
stipules eiliate: petiolar gland single, saucer-shaped, mostly ab wid 
hin-edg —12 rs or rarel , 9-20 m ng; "e linear- 
elliptic to linear, obtuse to acute, mucronate: pedicels pubescent with ineurv 
hairs: sepa ng, pubescent on the midrib: petals 10-17 mm re 
anthers 8— g, yellow rare eddish: pe 4—5 lo 
appressed-pubescent Ew Chamaecrista (Chapm. Fl.) Chamaecrista "betiula 
Pollard. ]— (Par RTRIDGE-PE SLEEPING-PLANT.)—Hillsides, open woods, and 
fields, various provinces, Fla. to C Tex., Kans., Minn., an as diced —fall. 
. C.robusta Pollard. Stem erect, 6-16 dm. tall, somewhat branched, hirsute: 
stipules 10-14 mm. long: petiolar gland saucer- -shaped, 1-1.5 mm. wide, thick- 
