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Britton as Chamaecrista micrantha Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 

 43: 463- O 20 1916. 

 Chamaecrista nictitans Moench, Meth. 272. 1794. 



Nictitella amena Raf. Sylv. Tellur. 128. 1838. New name for 

 Cassia nictitans L., type of the genus Nictitella Raf. 



Cassia Chamaecrista nictitans Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i : 169. 1891. 



Chamaecrista nictitans commixta Pollard & Maxon, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. 14: 163. 1901. "Type in U. S. National Herbarium, 

 No. 357,069, collected by Charles L. Pollard and William R. 

 Maxon in alluvial soil along the New River at Quinnimont, 

 W. Va., August 21, 1899 (No. 31)." Type seen in the United 

 States National Herbarium. 



Cassia nictitans cotnmixta Millsp. W. Va. Geol. Surv. 5 : 283. 1913. 



Annual. Stem erect, 1-4 dm. tall, much branched, puberulent 

 with incurved hairs. Stipules lanceolate-attenuate, glabrous or 

 nearly so, ciliate, nerved, 5-8 mm. long. Petioles 4-9 mm. long, 

 puberulent with incurved hairs. Petiolar gland single, shortly 

 below proximal leaflets, stalked, discoid or nearly so, 0.3-0.8 mm. 

 wide, dark-brown. Leaflets nine to eighteen pairs, 7-15 mm. long, 

 2-4 mm. Avide, oblong-linear, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous, not 

 ciliate, paler beneath, obscurely nerved. Bracteoles 1.5-2 mm. 

 long, lanceolate. Pedicels one to two or three in a fascicle, 2-4 

 mm. long, appressed-puberulent. Sepals 3-4 mm. long, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, puberulent on the midrib. Petals 3-8 mm. long, 

 anterior twice exceeding laterals. Stamens unequal, five; anthers 

 2 mm. long, pinkish. Legumes 2.5-4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, 

 appressed-pubescent. Seeds six to nine, 3 mm. long, thick, dark- 

 brown. 



Sandy soil, or sterile soil, frequently along roadsides, probably 

 near the borders of its range introduced, southern Vermont and 

 Rhode Island, to eastern Kansas, Georgia and Texas. 



Vermont. Windham: Vernon, A. J. Grout > August 6 (U). 



Rhode Island. Providence: Elmwood, J. F. Collins > 

 August 25 (U). 



Connecticut. Fairfield: Bridgeport, E. H. Fames < Sep- 

 tember 14 (U). 



New York. Westchester: Mount Kisco, F. W. Pennell 

 6713 < September 26 (Y) ; also Albany, Bronx, Orange, Putnam, 

 Queens, Rensselaer, Richmond and Suffolk Counties. 



