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No. 18. 



CASSIA MARILANDICA. 



English Name— AMERICAN SENNA. 

 Fkexch Name — Senne' B'AMERiQt'E. 

 German Name — Marilandische Cassia. 

 Officinal Names — Senna Americana^ folia, &c\ 

 Vulgar Names — Wild Senna, Locust plant 

 Authorities — Linnaeus, Michaux, Pursh, Schoepf, 



(:.'oxe, Thacher, Chapman, B* Barton, W, Bart. fig. 



12, Big. fig, 39, & Seq. &c. 



Genus Cassia — Calix five parted, colored, deci- 

 duous and unequal. Corolla with five unequal pe- 



tals. Stamina ten, 



up- 



per sterile, the three lower longer, anthers lineaf 

 curved. Pistil stipitate. Pod bivalve, curved, many 



celled transversally — Leaves even pinnule. 



Species C Marilandica — Herbaceous, leaves 

 with eight or ten pairs of oblong mucronate folioles, 

 petiole uniglandular : racemes axillar and terminal, 

 panicled : pods linear, flat and pendulous. 



DESCRIPTION — Root perennial, contorted, irre- 

 gular, woody, black, fibrose— Stems many, nearly 

 smooth, upright, from three to six feet high, cylindri- 

 cal and simple— Leaves alternate, not many, large, 

 horizontal ; petioles compressed, channelled above. 



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