112 LEGUMINOSiE. (PULSE FAMILY.) 



dncons, or the lower ones larger and persistent ; racemes numerous, short, few- 

 flowered, somewhat leafy at the base; bracts ovate-lanceolate, persistent; 

 flowers small, on long 2-bracteil pedicels ; ovary villous ; legume small, ovoid, 

 slender-pointed. — Dry sandy soil, Florida and the southern parts of Georgia 

 May and June. — Stem 2° high. Leaflets 1' long. Plant unchanged in 

 drying. 



10. B. Serense, M.A.Curtis. Very smooth, branching ; leaves petioled ; 

 leaflets oblong-obovale, cuneate ; flowers in a long loose central raceme, and in 

 short racemes terminating the. branches ; pedicels longer than the calyx in fruit ; 

 Segments of the calyx villous on the inside ; legume oblong, inflated, the stipe 

 longer than the calyx. — Society Hill, South Carolina, Curtis. May and June. 

 — Stem diffusely branched, l°-2P high. Leaflets 1' long. Legume 8" long. 

 Allied to No. 7 and No. 11. Plant unchanged in drying. 



■i- n- Flowers white. 



11. B. alba, R. Brown. Smooth and glaucous; branches slender, flexu- 

 qus, horizontal ; leaves all distinctly petioled ; leaflets thin, cuncate-lanceolate or 

 oblong, obtuse ; stipules and bracts minute, caducous ; raceme usually solitary, 

 central, very long, those on the branches few-flowered ; legume cylindrical. — 

 Damp soil, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April. — Stem 2° -3° 

 high, often purple. Leaflets l'long. Racemes l°-3°long. Corolla £' long. 

 Plant unchanged in drying. 



12. B. leucantha, Torr. & Gray. Smooth and glaucous ; branches 

 spreading; leaves short petioled ; leaflets oblong and obovate, obtuse ; stipules 

 lanceolate, as long as the petioles, deciduous ; racemes central, and terminating 

 the branches, long, many-flowered ; ovary smooth ; legume large, oblong, much 

 inflated, long-stipitatc. — River-banks, Florida to South Carolina, and westward 

 March and April. — A stouter plant than the preceding, with larger leaves and 

 flowers, changing blackish in drying. Legumes li' long. 



13. B. leu.COpb.8Da, Nntt Hairy or smoothish ; stem stout, angled; 

 leaves short-pctioled ; leaflets varying i'nmi oblanceolate to olwvate, rigid, re- 

 ticulate, soon smooth above, stipules and bracts leafy, ovate-lanceolate, per* 

 siatenl ; racemes stout, declined, 1-sided ; flowers large, yellowish-white, on long 



and slender erect pedicels ; ovary villous , legume ovoid, long-pointed. (B. 

 bracteata, Muhl.) — Dry rich oak woods, Wrightsboro, Georgia* and westward 

 April. — Stem low, with widely spreading branches. Racemes J'- 12' long 



Flowers 1' long, the vexillum spotted with brown. Plant turns black m drying. 



-t- -»- -i- Flowt n blue. 

 M. B. australis, R. Brown Smooth ; leaves all short-pctioled ; leaflets 

 cuneate-obovate j stipules leafy, lanceolate, twice as long as the petiole-; ra- 

 cemes large, erect, many-flowered; flowers (indigo bine) very large; bracts 

 deciduous; legume oblong. (15. cserulea, Nut/) — Banks of rivers, (,. 



(Pttrih), and westward. June and July.— Stem 2° -8° high, Flowers V or 

 BOOM long. Legume ^' long, l'lunt Unchanged in drying. 



