Thermopsis. LEGUMIN0S;E. 367 



subulate, somewhat persistent; pedicels longer tlian the (yellow) flowers, 

 bibracteolate ; legumes oval, somewliat stipitate, scabrous. 

 • /?. racemes somewhat paniculate ; bracts and bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, 

 persistent. 



Riceborough, Georgia, Mr. L. LeContef Middle Florida, Dr. Bahhcin ! 

 Dr. Chapman! May. — Plant with the habit of 15. tinrtoria; but with longer 

 and narrower leaves, bracteolate pedicels, 6cc. Tlie leaves do not turn 

 black in drying, as in that species. 



X Species lohich have not fallen under our observation. 



14. B. mollis {Wxchyi. under Podalyria) : stem, leaves, and calyx minutely 

 pubescent ; stipules foliaceous, lanceolate ; leaflets somewhat rhombic-lan- 

 ceolate; spike tenninal; flowers yellow; teelh of the calyx acute. Michx. 

 fi. \.p. 264. 



In Mecklenburg County, N. Carolina, J^Fichaux. — We find no specimen 

 in Michaux's herbarium. To this species Nuttall referred a plant, found 

 chiefly upon the Catawba ridge, N. Carolina, in open bushy forests, 

 which is thus noticed : " This is the lowest s])ecies with which I am ac- 

 quainted, and possesses the aspect of an herbaceous Psoralea. Stem purj)lish, 

 somewhat decumbent, pubescent. Leaves often 2 inches long and one wide, 

 minutely pubescent on both sides : common petiole three-fourths of an inch 

 in length, in which particular it strikingly diflers from every other known 

 species. Stipules small, linear-lanceolate, acute. Legume small, with a 

 subulate point." Nutt. gen. l.p. 281. — This plant, which differs in some 

 respects from the character given by Michaux, Mr. Nuttall is now inclined 

 to consider a distinct species, which he projjoses to call B. fraxinifolia. But 

 we are uncertain whether it be distinct from some of the species described 

 above. 



49. THERMOPSIS. i?. Br. in hoi-t. Keu: (ed. 2.) 3. p. 3. 



Thermia, Nutt. 



Calyx oblong, campanulate, sometimes a little curved, acute at the base, 

 4-5-cleft at the summit, slightly bilabiate. Vexillum about the length of 

 the wings, broad, roundish, emarginate, the sides reflexed : wings oblong : 

 keel nearly straight, obtuse; the petals somewhat united. Stamens persis- 

 tent. Ovary nearly sessile : ovules numerous : style slightly incurved : 

 stigma minute. Legume much compressed, oblong-linear, sometimes fal- 

 cate, many-seeded. Seeds oblong-subreniform, compressed. Radicle very 

 short, incurved. — Perennial herbs. Leaves 3-foliolate; the uppermost some- 

 times simple. Stipules large and foliaceous, distinct. Flowers large (yellow 

 or rarely white), in terminal racemes : pedicels ebracteolate. 



1. T. lanccolata (P^. Brown) : leaves nearly sessile, the lower and the 

 highest ones often simple; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, silky-puberulent on 

 hoxh sides; stipules lanceolate, half the length of the leaflets ; flowers gemi- 

 nate or somewhat verticillate ; bracts large ; calyx convex posteriorly, cleft 

 to tlie middle ; the 3 lower segments lanceolate ; the upper 2-cleft at the 



summit; legimies R.Br. I. c; DC. prodr. 2. p. 99 ; Hook. fl. Bor.- 



A)n. 1. p. 128 ,• Ddess. ic. 3. t. 60. Sojjhora lupinoides, Pallas, Astr. t. 89. 

 Podalyria lupinoides, Willd. spec. 2. p. 504. 



Nootka Sound, DC— A. native of Kamtschatka and Altaic Siberia. 



