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Trifoliiim p.'^oraJoidvs Walt. Fl. Car. 184. 1788. 



I'mralea melilotoides Midix. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 'yS. 1803. 



P. eqlandulom Ell. Sk. 2 : 198. 1824. 



Ell.' Sk. I.e. Gray, Man. e.l. 6, 130. Chap. Fl. 92. 



Carolinian and Lonisianiau areas. Sonthern Indiana, Missonri, Kansas. Arkansas, 

 Lonisiana, and Mississipyn to North Carolina and Tennessee. 



Alabama : Tennessee Valley. Monntain region to Coast Pine belt. Gravelly and 

 rocky places. Landerdale County, in the barrens. Winston Connty (T". M. I'eUrs). 

 St. Clair County, Coosa hills; abundant. Tuscaloosa County {E. A. Smith). Wilcox 

 County {Bttckleij). Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Washington County, Yellow- 

 pine. Flowers June, July. Fruit purplish. Frequent. Rootstock long, cylindrical. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Psoralea simplex Nutt. ; Torr. &. Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 303. 1840. 



Anna M. Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 110. 



Lonisianiau area. Southern Mississippi to Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and ludian 

 Territory. 



Alah.^ma: Lower Pine region to Coast plaiu. Springy grassy l>anks, low wet 

 thickets. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County, Mon Louis Island. Flow- 

 ers dec]) blue. .Tune. One and one half to 2 feet high. From a turbinate tuberous 

 thick spindle-shaped or cylindrical rootstock, over 6 inches in length. Rare. 



Type locality: "Plains of Red River, Arkansas, yuttaU! Texas, Urummond! " 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Psoralea canescens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 57. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 19.5. Chap. Fl. 92. 



Lonisianiau area. Florida to North Carolina and Georgia. 



Alahama: Lower Pine region. Dry gravelly pine barrens. Baldwin County, 

 bluffs at Montrose. Flowers maize-yellow. May, June. Rootstock fusiform. Not 

 freftuent. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Carolina et Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 



AMORPHA L. Sp. PI. 2:713. 17.53. Fal.sk Inpioo. 



Eight species, shrubs, temperate North America. 

 Amorpha fruticosa L. Sp. PL 2 : 713. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 2:188. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 132. Chap. Fl. 93. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:76. 



Carolinian and Lonisianiau areas. Pennsylvania to Florida, west to Texas, 

 Arkansas, Colorado, and Manitoba, near Lake \Mnnipeg. 



Alabama : Throughout the State. Damp shady bottom lands, low banks of streams. 

 Flowers deei> blue, April, May. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina." 

 Herl). Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Amorpha glabra Desf. Tabl. Hort. Par. 192. 1804. Smooth Amorpha. 



Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1 : 3d5. Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 25 : 279. 



Suftrntescent, perennial, 3 to 4A inches high, nearly glabrous; stem slender, erect 

 or ascending, leafy throughout, purplish and more or less vermcose; leaves 6 to 8 

 inches long and 1 to If inches wide, with 12 to 20 pairs of oblong or elli])tical petiolu- 

 late leallets, apicnlateby the excurrent midrib; spikes densely tlowered, 6 to 8 inches 

 Jong, panicled; flowers short-pedicelled; vexillum violet-blue, style hairy; calyx 

 glaniiular, more or less villous on the margins of the unequal divisions, pod one- 

 seeded, about 3 lines long and 1 lino wide, glandular-roughened, the dorsal suture 

 straight.' 



Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida. 



Alabama: Coast plain, borders of swamps. Mobile County, West Fowl River; 

 marshes of Mobile River. Flowers blue. May, .lune. Infre(|uent. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Amorpha virgata Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 17. 1894. Mouxtaix Falsr Indigo. 



Carolinian area. Mountains of Georgia. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Ro(dvy woods. .Tackson (!ounty, wooded ridges at 

 Gnrley's, 1,200 feet. Clay County, Che-aw-ha Mountain, 2,000 to 2, 100 feet. To all 

 appearances not rare on the higliest ranges. 



'Description drawn fiom ('. D. i'xMdle, I.e. 



