Pennell: Plants of southern United States 353 



August 23 (U, Y) ; River Junction, A.H. Curtiss 5980 > September 

 8 (U, Y). 



9. Chamaecrista mississippiensis (Pollard) Pollard 



Cassia mississippiensis Pollard, Bull. Torrey Club 21: 219. 

 1894. "Type in herbarium of Columbia College, collected by 

 Miss K. Skeehan, 1889, at Ocean Springs, Mississippi." Type 

 collected November 7, 1889, seen in the herbarium of Columbia 

 University at the New York Botanical Garden. Several 

 specimens on sheet; these, originally described as "suffruti- 

 cose," are apparently lateral shoots of a dwarfed diffusely 

 branched plant. 



Chamaecrista mississippiensis Pollard; Heller, Cat. N. A. PI. 2d 

 ed. 5. 1900. 



Chamaecrista Tracyi Pollard, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 15: 21. 

 1902. "Type in the United States National Herbarium, col- 

 lected by Prof. S. M. Tracy at Koshtaw, Miss., September 15, 

 1898." Type, Tracy 4914, collected October 15, 1898, seen 

 in the United States National Herbarium. 

 Annual. Stem erect or ascending, 2-6 dm. tall, slender, often 

 diffusely branched at base, finely puberulent with ascending in- 

 curved hairs. Stipules lanceolate-attenuate, glabrous or nearly 

 so, ciliate, 4-7 mm. long. Petioles 2-5 mm. long, puberulent with 

 incurved hairs. Petiolar gland single, sessile, depressed saucer- 

 shaped, .3-.6 mm. wide, dark-brown. Leaflets six to fifteen pairs, 

 5-12 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, ellipsoid linear-lanceolate, acutish 

 to acute-mucronate, appressed-puberulent, not ciliate, obscurely 

 nerved. Bracteoles 2-3 mm. long, linear-attenuate. Pedicels 

 one to three in a fascicle, 6-15 mm. long, finely puberulent with 

 incurved hairs. Sepals 5-10 mm. long (in the bud longer than 

 the petals), linear-lanceolate, long-attenuate, appressed-puberu- 

 lent. Petals 8-15 mm. long, anterior slightly exceeding laterals. 

 Stamens ten, unequal, two longer; anthers 7-9 mm. long, yellow. 

 Legumes 3-5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, appressed-puberulent. Seeds 

 six to fifteen. 



Moist sandy pine-land, southern Mississippi and Louisiana, 

 extending apparently into southern Alabama and southeastern 

 Texas. 



Alabama. Lee: Auburn, F. S. Earle & C. F. Baker > August 



(U). 



