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quite irreguliir, its small yellow petals uot nmch exceeilinj^ the narrow, scarious- 

 edged sepals ; li^nnme linear, compressed, pubescent, or even hirsute, ' * * 2 to 

 2i cm. long * * *." 



''Separable from niciitans by the narrowly linear, very numerous, leaflets, the 

 more hairy pod, and the late period of flowering." 



Caroliniau and Louisianian areas. Florida to Mississippi. 



Alabama : Damp shaded banks, grassy borders of flelds. Moliile County, Mouroe 

 Park. Baldwin County, Daphne. Cullman County. Lee County, Auburn {I'aki'r 

 <.f Earle). Flowers yellow; August 2;>. Animal. 



Type locality: "Near Jacksonville [Fla.], A. II. Curtiss « * # 1894. Talla- 

 hassee, G. V. Nash * * * 1895." 



Herb. Geol. feurv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chamaecrista aspera niohrii (Pollard) I'ollard ; Heller, Cat. N. A. PI. ed. 2, 5. 1900. 



Mohr's Hoary Sensitive Pea. 



Cassia aspera viohrii Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 151. 1897. 



"Leaflets hoary-pubescent Avith still" white hairs on both sides, jietiolar gland 

 depressed-en puliform, substipitate." 



Louisianian area. 



Alabama: Borders sandy lields and pine woods. Mobile. Flowers August; rare. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : " Collected in Mobile in 1878 by Dr. Mohr." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. (type specimen). Herb. Mohr. 



Chamaecrista nictitaus (L.) Moench. Meth. 272. 1794. 



Cassia niciitans L. Sp. PI. 1 : 380. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 474. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 148. Chap. Fl. 115. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 92. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Massachusetts and central New York, through- 

 out the Ohio Valley, south to Georgia, Arkansas, and Texas. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Open places, old fields. Dekalb County, Lookout 

 Mountain, Mentone. September 1. Infrequent. 

 ry]>e locality : " Hab. iu Virginia." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



GLEDITSIA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 10.56. 1753. Honey Locust. 



Five species eastern Asia. North America, 2. Trees. 

 Gleditsia triacanthos L. Sp. PL 2 : 1056. 1753. Honey LoctsT. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 709. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 149. Chap. Fi. 115. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 95. Sargent, Silv. \. A. 3 : 75, 1. 125. 



Carolinian and Louisianian area. Pennsylvania, western Virginia to Missouri, 

 south to Florida, and through the Gulf region to Texas and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Throughout the State in bottom lands. Lauderdale, Blount, and 

 Montgomery counties. May; fruit ripe October. Large tree, 50 to 80 feet high. 

 Most frequent on the larger tributaries of the Alabama River; spreading iu clear- 

 ings, old fields, and waste places, southward to the coast and becoming troublesome. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



iferb. Geol. Sui'v. Herb. Mohr. 



CLADRASTIS Raf. Neog. 1. 1825. 



One sj)ecies, South Atlantic America. 

 Cladrastis lutea (Michx.) Koch, Dendrol. 1 : 6. 1869. Yellow -wood. 



VirtjUia Inica Michx. f. Arb. Am. 3 : 266, /. S. 1813. 



Cladrastis tivctoria Raf. Neogen. 1. 1825. 



Gray. Man. ed. 6, 127. Chap. Fl. 113. Sargent, Silv. N. A. S : .55, t. 19, 20. 



Caroliuian area. Central Kentucky, Tennes.see, and Nortli Carolina. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley. Shaded bluft's. ( olbert County, Sheffield Landing 

 on the Tennessee River (,!/. C. jri7.so«)> Flowers white. May. Small tree; rare. 



Ef^onomic uses: An ornamental tree. 



Type locality (Michx. f. Arb. Am. trans.) : "Confined to that part of west Tennes- 

 86(5 which lies 1)etween the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh degrees of latitude." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



