676 FABACEAE 
4. B. tinctoria (L.) R. Br. Plant very bushy, with slender branches, mostl 
1 m. tall or less, glabrous: leaflets 1-3 em. long; blades obovate to spatulate- 
cuneate: calyx becoming 4-5 mm. ae lower lobes deltoid, acuminate: corolla 
—14 mm. 9 mm. wi 
yellow; wings 12—14 long; blade of the standar d-body 
8-11 mm. long, acid than the Bender stipe.—(HONESTY-WEED. RATTLE-WE 
SHOO-FLY. YEL W WILD-INDIGO.)—Dry woods, b aee and roadsides, often 
in acid soil, rdi provinees, N. C. to La., an —Su m—Plants 
dry black. Southern mountain folk use the m "both for dye and as a fly- 
brush. 
. Gibbesii Small Plant similar to B. tinctoria in habit: leaves smaller f; 
ds iuis more euneate: flowers yellow: pod-body 6—7 mm. long, about as long 
as the stipe or shorter.—Sandy woods, Coastal Plain, S. C.—BSpr.-sum. 
B. lanceol joe Rn Plant mostly less than 1 m. tall, the bap eed 
u 
mm. lon ng: od-body as wide as ong, orn bale SO ance or less 2-lobed, short- 
stipitate, the valves somewhat woody, SP in ‘age. —Dry piace Coastal 
Plain, Ala. to N. C.—Spr. 
1.5 em. ; , rely shorte ith very b 
blades: pod-body much longer than thick, not lobed, pee ERE "the valves 
parehment-like, copiously pubescent —Pinelands, N Fla a.—Spr. 
B. Le Co ntei & G. Plant bushy, 1 m. tall or less, pen ie ieee: 
Pius leaves 3: foliola te, with minute stipules; leaflets 1—4 cm. long, the 
blades ee spa atulate, or narrowly cuneate, sparingly a ees M eR 
in terminal panieles with incu bracts and minutely bracted flower-stalks: 
ese finely pu a. lower lobes lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate; upper bs 
mostly entire corolla dos ; dp FE suborbieular: ovary pu 
pod-body ellipsoid, less than 1 cm. long, narrowed at both ends, short- beaked, 
finely pubescent. E aa aoa. Coastal Plain, Fla. and Ga.—Spr.—su 
—Plants dry gree 
calycosa Canby. Plant usually less than 1 m. tall, with many E 
| ae branches: leaves with elliptic as ea ate stipules m ostly 1-2 e 
long; leaflets 3, the blades spatulate to n wly cun g, us r 
ly pubescent: br and bractlets hie to elliptic, foliaceous: calyx 
glabrous except the sparingly cili lobes; foliaceous, ali five nearly 
equal: corolla yellow; standard-blade suborbicular: ovary glabrous: Pa -body 
narrowly ovoid or ellipsoid, about 1 cm. long, glabrous, gs beaked.—Pine- 
lands, E Fla.—Spr.-sum.—Plants dry black. 
10. B. hirsuta Small. Plant about 1 m. tall or less, with numerous straight 
lets 3, the blades spatulate, obla late, a na el . long, 
hirsute: braets ps dede similar is the stipules: calyx hirsute; all five lobes 
foliaceous, the o (upper lip) united for about half their length: 
corolla “yellow sob dard. blade suborbieular: ovary hirsute: pod-body broadly 
ovoid, nearly 1 cm. long, pubescent, Wl e ed. [B. calycosa villosa Canby.] 
—Dry Ru pinelands, W Fla.—Spr.—Plants dry green. 
