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In dry or sandy soil, Massachusetts to Florida, Minnesota, Texas and 

 Mexico. Flowering from July to September. 



Pea Family 



Fabaceae 

 Wild Indigo; Horsefly Weed 



Baptisia tiiictorla (Linnaeus) R. Brown 



Plate 107a 



Stems glabrous, erect, mvich branched, 2 to 4 feet high from a perennial 

 root, blackening in dying. Leaves petioled, three-foliate, alternate; leaflets 

 obovate, one-half to i§ inches long, nearly sessile, blunt, tapering at the 

 base, entire. Flowers bright yellow, rather showy, in numerous, few- 

 flowered, terminal racemes. Each flower about one-half of an inch long; 

 calyx campanulate, the upper two lobes united into a lobe larger than the 

 other three; corolla consisting of a standard (upper petal), two wings (lat- 

 eral petals), and a keel (two lower petals); stamens ten, distinct; fruit a 

 short ovoid or nearly globose pod, one-fourth to one-half of an inch long, 

 and tipped with the subulate style. 



In dry or sandy soil, Maine to Vermont, Ontario, Minnesota, Florida 

 and Lotxisiana. Flowering from June to September. 



The Blue Wild or Blue False Indigo, Baptisia australis 

 (Linnaeus) R. Brown, has indigo blue flowers nearly an inch long and is 

 naturalized in eastern and southern New York from the south. 



Wild or Perennial Lupine 



Lupin us pcrennis Linnaeus 



Figure XIX and Plate 1 06 



Stems 8 to 24 inches high, erect, pubescent and often branched, from 

 a perennial root. Leaves digitately compound with seven to eleven (usually 

 about eight), oblanceolate, sessile leaflets, blunt and mucronate at the 

 apex, tapering to the base, i to 2 inches long, one-fourth to one-half of an 

 inch wide, appressed-pubescent or glabrate; flowers blue, rarely white 

 or pink, in terminal racemes; each flower one-half to two-thirds of an inch 



