VETCH FAMILY. 567 



Type locality: "Hal), in \'irgini;i, Carolina et (ieorgia." 

 Herb. Geol. Sur\ . Herl). Mohr. 



Cracca chrysophylla (Piir.sh) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 171. iSttl. 



PitosTKATK Goat .s Rue. 



Tephrosia ehn/sopliyUa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:4<^9. 1811. 



r. prostrata Nutt. (ien. 2 : 120. 1818. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 24G. Chap. Fl. 95. 



Loaisianian area. Georgia and Florida west to Louisiana. 



Alahama: Lower Piue region. Sandy i>in(> barrens. Mobile County. Baldwin 

 County, Stockton. Flowers white and puri)lish, .July, September. Frequent. 



Type locality : "In Georgia. Erislcn." 



Herb. Geol. Su^^ . Herb. Mohr. 



Cracca cinerea (L.) Morong, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 7:79. 1892. 



Cinereous Tephrosia. 



Galega cinerea L. Anioen. Acad. 5:403. 1759. 



Tephrosia cinerea Pers. Syn. 2 :528. 1807. 



From a stout ligneous root. Stems prostrate, diftuse or ascending, Ih to 2 feet or 

 more long, ai)pre88ed cinereous pubescent, becoming glabrate with age; 8tii)nle8 ^ 

 to ii inch long, subulate, acuminate, persisting; petioles ^ to i inch long; leaflets 16 

 or 17, liuear-oldong, 1 to 2 inches long, ^ to i^- inch broad, obtuse or acutish at the 

 apex, glabrous above, cinereous, strigose, or pubescent beneath, becoming often 

 glabrate with age; racemes .S to 3i inches long; flowers geminate or in clusters, 

 scattered; bracts subulate or setaceous, persisting, legumeu 1 to 1|- inches long, ^ 

 inch wide, spreading, cinereous-pubescent or glabrate, straight. (Vail, shortened.) 



Griseb. Fl. Brit. VV Ind. 182. 



Wkst Indies, Mkxico to Brazil, Montevideo. 



Alabama: Introduced with ballast. Mobile, tirst observed in 1886, established 

 since near the shipjiing. Flowers white, with purple; May, June. Trailing stems 2 

 to 4 fei t long. 1 ruit ripe in .July. 



Tyjx^ locality: .Jamaica. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



KRAUNHIA Raf. Med. Rep. ser. 2, 5 : 352. 1808. 

 Wisteria Nutt. Gen. 2 : ll."). 1818. 



Four species, eastern Asia. South Atlantic North America, 1. 

 Krauiihia frutesceiis (L.) Greene, Pittonia, 2:175. 1891. American Wisteria. 



Glycine frutescens L. Sp. PI. 2 : 753. 1753. 



Wisteria speciosa Nutt. Gen. 2 : 116. 1818. 



W. frutescens Poir. Tabl. Encvcl. 3 : 674. 1823. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 237. Gray, xMan. ed. 6, 134. Chap. F1.95. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:81. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia and Tennessee west to 

 southern Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, south to Texas, Louisiana, and Florida to 

 North Carolina. 



Alabama: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Swampy borders of woods. 

 Wilcox County, Pineapple. Clarke County, Suggsville {l>r. Denny). Mobile 

 County. Flowers deei) blue; ]\Iay to July, Shrub climbing high trees. Most fre- 

 quent in the coast ])lain. 



Economic uses: Ornamental. 



Tyi>e locality : " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ROBINIA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 722. 17.53. 



Six species, temperate North America. Trees or shrubs. 

 Robinia pseudacacia L. Sp. PI. 2 : 722. 1753. Black Locust. 



Ell. Sk. 2:242. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 134. Chap. Fl. 91. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 3: 39, <. i/^. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. From Pennsylvania throughout the Allegheny 

 ranges to Georgia. 



Al.\bama: Mountain region. Rich woods, calcareous soil. Dekalb County, Look- 

 out Mountain below Mentone, 1,. 500 feet; indigenous. In the lower country culti- 

 vated and widely disseminated in waste iilaces. Flowers white; May. 



Economic uses: Valuable for its wood. Ornamental shade tree. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



