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13. CHAMAECRISTA ASPERA (Muhl.) Greene 
Cassia aspera Muhl.; Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 474. 1821. ‘On 
Eding’s island near Beaufort [South Carolina], common.” 
Type not seen nor verified, but description sufficiently indicates 
this plant. 
Nictitella aspera Raf. Sylv. Tell. 128. 1838. 
Chamaecrista aspera Greene, Pittonia 3: 243. 1897. 
Annual. Stem erect, 3-7 dm. tall, branched, strigose-hirsute 
with spreading hairs, below mostly also puberulent with some 
shorter incurved hairs. Stipules Gran arem ae conspicu- 
ously ciliate, nerved, 8-11 mm. long. Petioles 2-5 mm. long, 
hirsute, as well as the rachis, ek spreading hairs. Petiolar 
gland single, shortly below proximal leaflets, stalked, truncate, 
scarcely wider than the stalk, 0.15—0.25 mm. wide, brown or dark- 
brown. Leaflets fifteen to twenty-seven pairs, 8-15 mm. long, 
1.5-2 mm. wide, narrowly oblong-linear, acute, strongly mucronate, 
glabrous, not ciliate, slightly glaucous beneath, obscurely nerved. 
Bracteoles 1.5-2 mm. long, lanceolate. Pedicels one to two or three 
in a fascicle, 3-4 mm. long, appressed-puberulent. Sepals 3-5 
mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, strigose-hirsute on the midrib. 
Petals 3-7 mm. long, anterior nearly or twice exceeding laterals. 
Stamens unequal, seven to nine; anthers 2 mm. long, ‘‘yellow.” 
Legumes 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, strigose-hirsute. Seeds 
three to eight, 2.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, thick. 
Sandy soil, hammocks, fields or in pine-land, peninsular Florida, 
extending northward along the Atlantic coast to southern South 
Carolina. 
FLoriwa. Dade: Miami, N. L. Britton 456 > April 4 (Y). 
Duval: Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss 5158 > September 19 A ieee 2 
Hillsboro: Tampa, N. L. Britton & P. Wilson 82 > August 25 (Y). 
Lake: Eustis, G. V. Nash 1717 > August 16-25 (A, U, Y). Lee: 
Alva, A. S. Hitchcock 56 (U, Y). Manatee: Perico Id., S. M. 
Tracy 7244 > May 14 (U, Y). Monroe: Key West, Blodgett 
(U, Y). Orange: Clarcona, M. Meislahn 35 > September 19 (U). 
Pinellas: St. Petersburg, Mrs. C. C. Deam 2751 > September 18 
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Cassia Simpsoni Pollard, Bull. Torrey Club 21: 221. 1894. 
“Florida—Big Pine Key, Simpson (May, 1891), No. 174. 
