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Florida: Chapman, various collections; St. Marks, June, 

 1843. Rugri ; between Everglades and Biscayne Bay, Curtiss, 

 no. 726; Eustis, Lake County, May and June, 1894, Nash t 

 no. 686. 



Louisiana : Hale. 



Baptisia Hugeri. 



Perennial, minutely pubescent. Foliage but little changed in 

 drying: stems erect, 3-6 dm. tall, branching: leaves 3-foliolate, 

 variable; stipules lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 acute ; leaflets elliptic, somewhat acuminate at both ends or those 

 of the lower leaves oblanceolate, 5-6 cm. long, somewhat lus- 

 trous above, the minute pubescence often abundant at the nerves, 

 these conspicuous : racemes about 1 dm. long, few-flowered : ped- 

 icels 4-6 mm. long, with bracts similar to the stipules : calyx 

 campanulate, 6-7 mm. long ; segments, except the upper one, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, about as long as the tube : corolla bright 

 yellow ; standard with a suborbicular notched blade about 12 mm. 

 in diameter ; wings nearly 2 cm. long, their blades almost oblong ; 

 keel petals similar to the wings, but oblong-obovate : stamens de- 

 ciduous : ovary stipitate. 



On mountain slopes, Cornelia, Georgia. Spring. 



A yellow-flowered species related to Baptisia megacarpa, but 

 the leaflets are acute or acuminate at both ends and conspicuous 

 on account of their pale nerves. The foliage is more pubescent 

 and the flowers smaller. The lower calyx-segments are conspicu- 

 ously acuminate and not obtuse or acutish as they are in B. mega- 



carpa. 



The type specimens were collected on the northern slope ot 



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J Ba ptisia cuneata. 



Perennial, glabrous. Foliage slightly discolored in drying : 

 stems erect, 3-5 dm. tall, sparingly branched : leaves 3-foliolate : 

 stipules lanceolate : leaflets leathery, cuneate, sometimes slightly 

 cuneate-rhomboidal, $-6 cm. long, often mucronulate, barely 

 reticulated : racemes about 1 dm. long, slender, short-peduncled : 

 pedicels slender, 1.5-2.5 cm. long: bracts lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous : calyx campanulate, nearly 1 cm. 

 long; segments, except the upj r one, ovate, acute: corolla pal 



cream-colored : standard broader than high, nearly i cm. broad, 



