Tas. 5900. 
BAPTISIA LEUCOPH@A, 
Native of the United States. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminos#.—Tribe Popa.yriz&. 
Genus Baptista, Ventenat ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. P1., vol. i. p. 466). 
Baptista leucophea ; herba humilis, plus minusve pilosa v. pubescens, ramis 
_divaricatis flexuosis, foliis subsessilibus palmatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis 
anguste oblongo-obovatis-oblanceolatis v. subspathulatis,  stipulis 
bracteisque magnis foliaceis ovato-lanceolatis persistentibus, racemis 
elongatis reclinatis, floribus secundis pallide flavidis, pedicellis elongatis 
gracilibus, ovario villoso, legumine ovoideo longe acuminato. 
Bartisia leucophea, Nutt. Gen. Pl. N. Am., vol. i. p. 282. DC. Prod., vol. ii. 
p- 100. ZYorr. and Gr. Fl. N. Am., vol. i. p. 385, A. Gray, Bot. N.U. 
States, p. 107. Chapman, Bot. S.U. States, p. 112. . 
_ Baptista bracteata, Muhl. Cat. ew Elliott's Sketch, vol. ii. p. 468. DC. lc. 
A hardy herbaceous plant, very ornamental, a native of 
dry woods and open places throughout the United States, 
from Michigan and Wisconsin to Texas and Georgia. It 
was introduced into England by Edward Leeds, Esq., of 
Longford Bridge, Manchester, to whom I am indebted for 
the specimen here figured, which was raised by him from seed 
collected in Iowa State, and which flowered in July 1870. 
Baptisia is wholly a North American genus, containing 
fourteen species, of which all are supposed to be hardy, and 
many are certainly well worthy of cultivation ; two are figured 
in this Magazine as Podalyrias, P. alba, tab. 1177, and P. 
linctoria, tab. 1099, which yields a coarse indigo ; and a third 
(tab. 3121) is the highly curious B. perfoliata, with simple 
sub-orbicular perfoliate leaves and solitary flowers; all have 
gone out of cultivation. 
Descr. A low perennial herb, one to two feet high, very 
variable in amount of pubescence, sometimes glabrous when 
May Ist, 1871. 
