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Mexico, Brazil, Peru. 



Alleghenian to Loui.sianian area. Massachusetts and Xew York west to Iowa aucl 

 Nebraska, south to Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley to the Upper division of Coast Pine belt. iJiy sandy 

 banks. Cullman, Choctaw, Lee, and Tuscaloosa couuties. Flowers yellow; July, 

 August. Nowhere common. Annual. 



Type locality: " Hab. in Brasilia, Virginia." 



Herb. Geol Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Crotalaria purshii DC. Prodr. 2 : 124. 1825. Puksh's Rattle ]?ox. 



''rotalaria laer'u/atn Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept 2 : 4tJ9. 1814. Not Lara. 



C. parvitiora Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2 : 469. 1814. Not Roth. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 193. Chap. Fl. 89. 



Louisiauian area. Florida to South Carolina, west to eastern Louisiana. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. IJamp jiine barrens ou sandy loam. 

 Baldwin and Mobile counties. Flowers April, May. Not rare. Perennial. 



Type locality: "In Virginia et Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Crotalaria bro'wnei Bertero, DC. Prodr. 2 : 130. 1825. Bkown's Crotalaria. 



Crotalaria striata DC. Prodr. 2 : 131. 182.o. 

 Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 180. 

 Tropical countries of the New and Old World. 

 Louisianiau area. 



Alabama : Adventive with ballast. Observed 1890 to 1895. Annual. 

 Type locality : "In Jamaica ad rivnlos Irequens." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



LUPINUS Sp. PI. 2:721. 1753. Lupine. 



About 100 species, warmer temperate regions ^fediterraueau Europe, Mexico, South 

 America. Northwestern America, 60. Eastern United States, 4 or 5. 



Lupinus gracilis Nutt. Journ. Acad. I'hila. 7 : 115. 1834. NotAgardh. 1835. 



Nuttall's Lupine. 



Lupinus nuttallii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 8 : 526. 1873. 



L. perennis var. (/racilis Chap. Fl. 89. 1860. 



Chap. Fl. 89. 



Louisianiau area. South Carolina and Florida. 



Alabama : Lower Pine region. Dry sandy pine barrens. Mo1)ile County, Spring- 

 hill. Flowers pale blue; April, l-'requeut in dry sandy pine barrens near the 

 coast. Easily distinguished from Lnpiuns perennis by the slender decumbent stem 

 with stitt" spreading hairs, l)earing scarcely more than one slender drooping raceme 



Type locality : " Georgia, Florida, and westward to Mississippi." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herl>. Mohr. 



Lupinus diffusus Nutt. Gen. 2 : 93. 1818. Spreading Lupine. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 192. Chap. Fl. 90. 



Louisianiau area. Florida to North Carolina, west to Mississippi. 



Alabama : Lower Pine region. Arid sandy pine ridges. Mobile and Baldwin 

 counties. Floweis pale blue, March, April; fruit ripe May, June. Frequent. 

 Perennial. 



Typti locality: "Around Wilmington, and in niauj' other parts of Nortli and South 

 Carolina, in the barren forests of the (Juercus catesbaei and (J. nir/ra.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lupinus villosus Willd. Sp. PL 3 : 1029. 1805. Haikv Lupine. 



Lupinus pilosus Walt. Fl. Car. 180. 1788. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 191. Chap. Fl. 89. 



Louisianiau area. Florida to North Carolina, west to Louisiana. 



Alabama: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Grassy damp pine barrens. Flowers 

 "reddish purple with a dark spot in the center of the vexillum.'' Flowers a couple 

 of weeks later than the last, au<l affects situations of a heavier soil, retentive of 

 moisture. Not infre(iuent. Biennial. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina et in insula Trinitatis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



