346 Pennell: Plants of southern United States 



Collins at Miami, Dade County, Florida, April 4-7, 1898 (No. 



245)." Type seen in the United States National Herbarium. 



Annual. Stems erect, 8-12 dm. tall, glabrous or sparingly 

 puberulent above with incurved hairs. Stipules lanceolate- 

 acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, not ciliate, 5-8 mm. long. 

 Petioles 4-8 mm. long, sparingly appressed-puberulent to glabrous. 

 Petiolar gland single, or occasionally two or three and serially 

 placed, closely sessile, effused-discoid to saucer-shaped, 1-2.5 mm. 

 wide, brown. Leaflets ten to twenty-five pairs, 10-20 mm. long, 

 2-3 mm. wide, linear-lanceolate, acute-mucronate, glabrous, not 

 ciliate, obscurely nerved. Pedicels 1-4 in a fascicle, 10-20 mm. 

 long, glabrous to more rarely sparingly puberulent in lines with 

 incurved hairs. Sepals 10-12 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Petals 10-18 mm. long, anterior slightly 

 exceeding laterals. Stamens ten, unequal, 2 longer; anthers 7-9 

 mm. long, reddish to purplish (?). Legumes 6-8 cm. long, 5-5.5 

 mm. wide, sparingly finely appressed-puberulent. Seeds fifteen 

 to eighteen, 3-3.2 mm. long, dark brown. 



Dry pine-land, peninsular Florida (perhaps also in southern 

 Alabama) . 



Florida. Brevard: Merritt's Island, A. A. Baldwin 23 < 

 September i (A) . Dade : Miami, C. L. Pollard & G. N. Collins 245 

 < April 4-7 (U, Y). Duval: Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss 5156 > 

 August 27 (U, Y). Hillsboro: Tampa, N. L. Britton & P. Wilson 7 

 ^ August 25 (Y). Lake: Eustis, G. V. Nash 701 > May 1-15 

 (U, Y). Lee: Pine Island, 5. M. Tracy 7242 > May 14 (P, U, Y). 

 Manatee: Bradentown, S. M. Tracy 7089 > June 15 (P, U, Y). 

 Marion: Fort King, Lieut. Alden (Y). Orange: Clarcona, M. 

 Meislahn 127 5 November 30 (U). Pinellas: Clearwater Key, 

 S. M. Tracy 6536 > April 21 (U). Polk: Lakeland, Mrs. T. 

 Meehan^ March (A). Ste. Lucie: Fort Pierce, A. B. Burgess 

 724 > April 8-9 (Y). Suwanee: Live Oak, F. W. Pennell 9799 

 > May 23 (Y). 



(?) Alabama. Baldwin: Bay Minette, /. M. Macfarlane & 

 0. Goertz > June 15 (P), apparently this, but petiolar gland is 

 quite small. 



7. Chamaecrista rostrata Woo ton & Standley 



Chamaecrista rostrata Wooton & Standley, ConJ:rib. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 16: 135. F 12 1913. "Type in the U. S. National 



