346 PENNELL: PLANTS OF SOUTHERN UNITED STATES 
Collins at Miami, Dade County, Florida, April 4-7, 1898 (No. 
”” Type seen in the United States National Herbarium. 
Annual. Stems erect, 8-12 dm. tall, glabrous or sparingly 
puberulent above with incurved hairs. Stipules lanceolate- 
acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, not ciliate, 5-8 mm. long. 
Petioles 4-8 mm. long, sparingly appressed-puberulent to glabrous. 
Petiolar gland single! or occasionally two or three and serially 
placed, closely sessile, effused-discoid to saucer-shaped, I-2.5 mm. 
wide, brown. Leaflets ten to twenty-five pairs, 10-20 mm. long, 
2-3 mm. wide, linear-lanceolate, acute-mucronate, glabrous, not 
ciliate, obscurely nerved. Pedicels 1-4 in a fascicle, 10-20 mm. 
long, glabrous to more rarely sparingly puberulent in lines with 
incurved hairs. Sepals 10-12 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, 
glabrous or nearly so. Petals 10-18 mm. long, anterior slightly 
exceeding laterals. Stamens ten, unequal, 2 longer; anthers 7-9 
mm. long, reddish to purplish (?). Legumes 6-8 cm. long, 5-5-5 
mm. wide, sparingly finely appressed-puberulent. Seeds fifteen 
to eighteen, 3-3.2 mm. long, dark brown. 
Dry pine-land, peninsular Florida (perhaps also in southern 
Alabama). 
FLoripa. Brevard: Merritt’s Island, A. A. Baldwin 23 < 
September 1 (A). Dade: Miami, C. L. Pollard & G. N. Collins 245 
< April 4-7 (U, Y). Duval: Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss 5156 > 
August 27(U, Y). Hillsboro: Tampa, N. L. Britton & P. Wilson 7 
= August 25 (Y). Lake: Eustis, G. V. Nash 701 > May I-15 
(U, Y). Lee: Pine Island, S. M. Tracy 7242 > May 14 (P, U, Y). 
Manatee: Bradentown, S. M. Tracy 7089 > June 15 (P, U, Y). 
Marion: Fort King, Lieut. Alden (Y). Orange: Clarcona, M. 
Meislahn 1272 November 30 (U). Pinellas: Clearwater Key, 
S. M. Tracy 6536 > April 21 (U). Polk: Lakeland, Mrs. T. 
Meehan = March (A). Ste. Lucie: Fort Pierce, A. B. Burgess 
724 > April 8-9 (Y). Suwanee: Live Oak, F. W. Pennell 07909 
> May 23 (Y). 
(?) ALaBaMa. Baldwin: Bay Minette, J. M. Macfarlane & 
O. Goertz > June 15 (P), apparently this, but petiolar gland is 
quite small. 
7. CHAMAECRISTA ROSTRATA Wooton & Standley 
Chamaecrista rostrata Wooton & Standley, Contrib. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 16: 135. F 121913. “Type in the U. S. National 
