«LETHRA. DECAKDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 439 



Cafisule covered with the persistent calyx, obtusely triangular. 

 Seeds angular, attached to the lobes of the receptacle. 

 Had. In wet woods and in swamps. August. 



Sivee! Pefifier-bush, 



:21, CASSIA. L. 



Cahjx 5-leaved. Petals 5, subequal. Stamens un- 

 equal ; 3 superior anthers sterile ; 3 inferior rostrate, 

 with longer and incurved filaments. Legume mem- 

 branaceous, 2-valved. Gen. pL 700. Nu 1 1. Gen, 

 I. p. 280. Juss. p. 351. Lam. Ill t. 332. Nat, 

 Ord. Leguminos^ Juss. Leaves pinnate, with 

 the petiole often glandular ; flowers axillary* PFild-pea. 



1. C. marilandica L.: nearly smooth ; leaves in 8 pairs, 

 lanceolate- oblong, mucronate ; gland on the petiole obovate ; 

 racemes axillary, many-flowered; legumes linear, arcuate. 

 W i 1 1 d. Spec. II. p. 524. M i c h. FL I. p. 260. Pursk 

 Fl. I. p. 306. Elliott Sk. I. p. 473. B i ^. Med. Rot. 

 il. p. 1 66. t. 39. Bart. Veg. Mat. Med, I. t. 1 2. W alt. 

 Car. p. 135. G r o n. Virg. Q5. D i II. Elth, 321. t. 260. 

 f. 339. 



J^oot perennial. Slem 2 — 4 feet high, erect, much branched, 

 slightly hairy. Leaves pinnate, with 7 — S pairs of leaflets; 

 leaflets nearly equal, petiolate, acute, pubescent ; gland near 

 the base of the common petiole substipitate. Flowers in axil- 

 lary racemes, v/hich are mostly towards the upper part of the 

 stem, and thus form a large terminal panicle ; fiedicch filiform, 

 with linear bracts at the base. Culijx nearly half as long as the 

 corolla, coloured ; leaves oblong, obtuse, unequal. Corolla 

 blight yellow, large ; fietaU oblong-obovate, veined ; the in- 

 ferior ones longer. Stamens very unequal ; the 3 superior 

 ones very short, v/ilh flattened abortive aiilhers ; the 3 inferior 

 nilh compressed filaments and large incurved anthers; all the 

 anthers dark brown. Gertnen linear, as long as tiie middle 

 stamens, villous, ascending; stijle incurved; stigma simple. 

 Legume about 4 inches long, flattened, generally hairy. Seeds 

 9-^12, large, compressed, separated by transverse partitions. 



Hab. In wet meadows and on the banks of rivers ; common. 

 August. Wild Senna. 



2. C. ChamcBcrista L. : smoolhish ; leaves in many pairs, 

 linear, with the gland on the petiole subpedicellate; buds 

 2_3-flowercd; 2^of the petals spotted; legume pubescent. 

 Ivilld* Spr.c. U. p. 521]. Bat. Mag. 107. Mich. FL I. 

 p. 262. Pnrsh Fl. I. p. 306. B ig. Bos(. p. 104. E l- 

 liott Sk, I. p. 473. JFa 1 1. Car. p. 136. Gro n. Virg: 

 47. 



