112 PULSE FAMILY. 



B. lanceolata. Downy when young, spreading, with 3 thickish "blunt leaf- 



lots varvinu' from lanceolate In nbov;ile, a very short common petiole, small de- 



ciduous Stipules, ami rather lar^<- tl.>\\ .T- Military in the axil.- ami in -h'>rt ter- 

 niinal raceme-, the pod globular ami slender-pointed. Common S. >v S. \V. 



B. vil!6sa. Minutely downy, with stout stem- 2 high, 3 spatnlate-ol,!ong 

 or weduc -ohovate lc;illei-, becoming smooth above, a very short coiiniioii petiole, 

 stipules more or less per.-istent, ami many-flowered raceme- of lar'je flowers 

 on slender pedicels ; the pod mimitelv downy, oblong, taper-pointed. From 

 Carolina S. \V. 



* * Fioiri-fs u-liltf, in lite , first cream-color: leaves all of 3 Icafli-tn rnri/ini/ from 

 ir, i!,/, -,,!,,, ntte to oblanceolate, and flowers in tony racemes terminating the 

 I in inches. 



B. leUCOphaea. Low and spreading. 1 hii_ r h, soft-hairy, with persistent 

 lai'L r e and leaf-like bracts and stipules, reclined oiii--.-iil.-d racemes of cream- 

 colored large ( 1' long) flowers on slender pedieels, and hoary uvate pods. Open 

 woods, chietly \V. 



B. alba." Smooth, 2 -3 high, with slender widely spreading I't-anehes, 

 slender petiole<, minute deciduous -tipnles and hracts, 1< >-e erect or spreading 

 loii^-pediincled racemes ul' small flowers ('-4' long), and cylindrical pods. 

 From Virginia S. 



B. leucantha. Smooth and glaucous, stout, 3 - 5 hi-h. with spreading 

 branches, rather short petioles, the lanceolate stipules and bracts deciduous, 

 erect long racemes of large (I' long) flowers, and oval-ob'ong pods -2' IOIILT, 

 raised on a stalk fullv twice the length of the calvx. Alluvial soil, from Ohio 

 \V. & S. 



* * * F/'i/i-irs IJiir : li-nns <>f:\ !i'/jl</x (is in the foregoing. 



B. australis. Smooth and stout, pale, erect, 2 - 5 high, with ohlong- 



wi-djc-shapt-d leallets, lanceolate and rather ]ier.-istcnt stipules as long as the 

 short petiole, erect racemes of pretty lar-r (nearly 1' long) flowers on short, 

 pedicels, and oval-oblong pods 2' -3' long, on a stalk of the length of the 

 calyx. 



47. THERMOPSIS. (From Greek word- meaning that the plants resem- 

 ble the Lupine. ) Flowers yellow. 2/ 



T. mollis. Wild in open wood- from N T . Carolina S. : downy, l-2 hiiji, 

 with spreading brandies. .'! obovate-oblong leallets, olilong-ovate leafy stipules, 

 some of them a- long as the short petioles, and long narrow-linear spreading 

 pod- -hurt-stalked in the calyx: fl. spring. (Then- are two other species in the 

 Southern Alli-^hanies.) 



T. fabacca, which is erect with oval lealieis and upright pods, is sparingly 

 cult, from Siberia, and wild in X. W. America. 



48. CLADRASTIS, YKI.U >\V-\V< x )D. (Meanin- "f name obscure, 

 ]ierhaps from (Ireck for brittle branches.) 



C. tinct6ria (also named Viimfi.iv I.I'TKV). native of rich woods from 

 F. Kentuckv S.. planted tor ornament, one of the very h:ind-oine-t and neatest 

 of ornamental trees; with light vellow v, ..... 1. a dose bark like that <>t Beech, 

 lea\es of 7- 1 1 | parallel- veined oval or ovate leatlets (:i'-4' lonir and smooth, as 

 is the whole plant), and ample haiiL r inu r panicles (1 or more IOIILI) of pretty, 

 ddicatdv fragrant, cream -white tlowers, terminating the liranchlets of the season, 

 in Mav or .Iiinc. 



49. SOPHORA. (An Arabic name altered-) There i- a wild hcvb;ie.-.nis 

 specie- b.-vond the M is.-issiiptii, a low shrubbv one on the coast of Florida, 

 and a tree' in Arkansas and Texas which in it- tle-hy jointed pod and in ap- 

 pearance much resembles the following : 



S. Japouica, .lvi-\\ S. 1'lanted for ornament, hardy to New Kngland ; 

 tree 20 -50 hiizh, with greenish bark. II -i:t oval or olilong acute smoctli 

 leallets, and loo,.- panicles of cream-white (lowers, terminating the branches at 

 the end of summer, the fruit a strim; of fleshy I -seeded joints. 



