THERM0P3IS MOLLIS. 47 



THERMOPSIS MOLLIS, M. A. Curtis, MSS. 



TAB. IX. 



T. MOLLIS : cinereo-pubescens ; caule humili parce ra- 

 moso ramisque flexuosis subdeclinatis ; foliolis ob- 

 longo-ovatis vel cuneato-ovatis petiolum triplo exce- 

 dentibus supra glabratis; stipulis ovatis lanceolatisve, 

 caulinis petiolo vix brevioribus vetustate deciduis ; 

 racemo solitario decurvato ; pedicellis subalternis 

 erectiusculis bracteas oblongas sequantibus flore bre- 

 vioribus; staminibus deciduis; leguminibus elongato- 

 linearibus subfalcatis planis canescenti-puberulis de- 

 pendentibus. 



Podalyria mollis, Michx. Fl. Bor. Am., \. p. 264. 



Baptisia mollis, BC. Prodr., 2. p. 100; Torr. ^ Gr. Fl. N. Amer., 1. 



pp. 387, 695 (excl. syn. Nult.) ; M. A. Curtis, in Sill. Journ., 42. 



p. 81. 



Hab. In rupestribus comitatuum Mecklenburg {Mi- 

 chaux), Lincoln {Hunter), Stokes {Schweinitz), Or- 

 ange (Curtis), etc., Carolinse Superioris, hand infre- 

 quens. Aprili - Maio floret. 



This plant is about a foot high when it beghis to flower ; but as 

 the stem still elongates, and the branches continue to develope, it 

 attains twice that height, though it produces only a solitary raceme. 

 The foliage is dull green, and the whole plant hoary with a mi- 

 nute appressed pubescence. The leaves, however, become nearly 



