674 FABACEAE 
woolly; lower lobes oo about 14 as 
v S the tube: pod long, tomen- 
E AUG ON ’S-ROD. )— Woods, o ae 
ne Appalachian provinces, Ga. nn. 
and N. C.—Spr.—Often n grown as a 2 
plant. 
2. T. mollis (Michx.) M. A. Curtis. Stem 
pubescent, 3-9 dm. tall: raceme-rachis to- 
mentulose: ealyx den Rd M ene without: 
lower calyx-lobes trian shorter than 
3. T. tees Small. Stem pubescent, 3—7 dm. tall: raceme-rachis mee 
pubescent: calyx more or less Henn without: lower ro -lobes lanceolate, 
mostly about as long as the tube: ovary linear: pod 5-9 em. long.—Woods 
and thickets, Blue Ridge, Ga. to | C — Spr. 
4. T. fraxinifolia (Nutt.) M. A. Curtis. Stem glabrous, 3-9 dm. tall: raceme 
rachis mostly gl Pu calyx poe heu dis cay iobes deltoid, 
dd less than 15 as long as the tube ary very narrowly linear: pod 7-1 
. long.—Dry OUS Re thickets, Blue. Ridge to A d Bic fen 
n Tenn. and N. C.—Sum 
4. BAPTISIA Vent. Perennial herbs with rootstocks, the Mad often 
blackening in drying. Stipules not decurrent on the ste m, sómetimes de- 
ci Leaflets mostly 3, di = usually broadest above the middle. 
somewhat 2-lipped. Corolla white, cream-colored, yellow, blue. Style 
o 
inflated, beaked, stipitate.—About 24 species, North American.—FALSE-INDIGOS. 
WILD-INDIGOS.—In the first group the leaves are simple 
Leaf-blades simple, rarely lobed: stipules wanting. I. SIMPLICIFOLIAE. 
Leaf-blades 3-foliolate: i asd present. 
Plant bushy-branched: flowers axilary to leaves n m 
ranches, sometimes the ne n branches termi- 
nated by a cluster of "few flow II. TINCTORIAE. 
Flowers in terminal panicles, the lateral branches of 
the panie gies with bractlets, but usually without 
III. CALYCOSAE. 
Flowers in bracted racemes whic are apparently lat- 
eral by the prolongation of a eia shoot. IV. BRACTEATAE. 
B I in erect terminal racemes Ln are naked by 
the early falling of the small bra V. ALBAE. 
I. SIMPLICIFOLIAE 
Leaves with perfoliate blades: flowers axillary. 1. B. perfoliata. 
Leaves with sessile blades: flowers r racemose. 2. B. simplicifolia. 
TINCTORIAE 
Stipules foliaceous, more or less adnate to the leaflets towards 
the ends of the e 3. B. microphylla. 
t 
Keel 
han L 5 em. long: leafieis small (1-3 em.) ; blades 
an o SE or cuneate t 
Pod-body oval or ellipsoid, a aiy beaked. 4. B. auo 
Pod-body EUER or globose-ovoid, abruptly beaked. 5. B. Gibbes 
