PENNELL: PLANTS OF SOUTHERN UNITED STATES 353 
August 23 (U, Y); River Junction, A. H. Curtiss 5980 > September 
8 (U, Y): 
9g. CHAMAECRISTA MISSISSIPPIENSIS (Pollard) Pollard 
Cassia mississippiensis Pollard, Bull. Torrey Club 21: 219. 
1894. ‘Type in herbarium of Columbia College, collected by 
Miss K. Skeehan, 1889, at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.”” Type 
collected November 7, 1889, seen in the herbarium of Columbia 
University at the New York Botanical Garden. Several 
specimens on sheet; these, originally described as ‘‘ suffruti- 
cose,” are apparently lateral shoots of a dwarfed diffusely 
branched plant. 
Chamaecrista mississippiensis Pollard; Heller, Cat. NeA. Ph. 2d 
ed. 5. 1900. 
Chamaecrista Tracyi Pollard, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 15: 21. 
1902. ‘‘Type in the United States National Herbarium, col- 
lected by Prof. S. M. Tracy at Koshtaw, Miss., September 15, 
1898.” Type, Tracy 4914, collected October 15, 1898, seen 
in the United States National Herbarium. 
Annual. Stem erect or ascending, 2-6 dm. tall, slender, often 
diffusely branched at base, finely puberulent with ascending in- 
curved hairs. Stipules lanceolate-attenuate, glabrous or nearly 
so, ciliate, 4-7 mm. long. Petioles 2-5 mm. long, puberulent with 
incurved hairs. Petiolar gland single, sessile, depressed saucer- 
shaped, .3-.6 mm. wide, dark-brown. Leaflets six to fifteen pairs, 
5-12 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, ellipsoid linear-lanceolate, acutish 
to acute-mucronate, appressed-puberulent, not ciliate, obscurely 
nerved. Bracteoles 2-3 mm. long, linear-attenuate. Pedicels 
one to three in a fascicle, 6-15 mm. long, 
incurved hairs. Sepals 5-10 mm. long (in the bud longer than 
the petals), linear-lanceolate, long-attenuate, appressed-puberu- 
lent. Petals 8-15 mm. long, anterior slightly exceeding laterals. 
Stamens ten, unequal, two longer; anthers 7-9 mm. long, yellow. 
Legumes 3-5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, appressed-puberulent. Seeds 
six to fifteen. 
Moist sandy pine-land, souther 
extending apparently into southern 
Texas. 
ALABAMA. Lee: Auburn, F. S. Earle & C. F. Baker > August 
(U). 
n Mississippi and Louisiana, 
Alabama and southeastern 
