112 LEGUMINOS^E. ( PULSE FAMILY.) 



ducous, or the lower ones larger and persistent; racemes numerous, short, few- 

 flowered, somewhat leafy at the base ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, persistent ; 

 flowers small, on long 2-bracted pedicels ; ovary villous ; legume small, ovoid, 

 slender-pointed. Dry sandy soil, Florida and the southern parts of Georgia. 

 May and June. Stem 2 high. Leaflets 1' long. Plant unchanged in 

 drying. 



10. B. Serense, M.A.Curtis. Very smooth, branching ; leaves petioled ; 

 leaflets oblong-obovate, cuneate ; flowers in a long loose central raceme, and in 

 short racemes terminating the branches ; pedicels longer than the calyx in fruit ; 

 segments of the calyx villous on the inside ; legume oblong, inflated, the stipe 

 longer than the calyx. Society Hill, South Carolina, Curtis. May and June. 

 Stem diffusely branched, 1- 2 high. Leaflets 1' long. Legume 8" long. 

 Allied to No. 7 and No. 11. Plant unchanged in drying. 



-i - Flowers white. 



11. B. alba, E. Brown. Smooth and glaucous ; branches slender, flexu- 

 ous, horizontal ; leaves all distinctly petioled ; leaflets thin, cuneate-lanceolate or 

 oblong, obtuse ; stipules and bracts minute, caducous ; raceme usually solitary, 

 central, very long, those on the branches few-flowered ; legume cylindrical. 

 Damp soil, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April. Stem 2 - 3 

 high, often purple. Leaflets 1' long. Racemes 1 3 long. Corolla ^' long. 

 Plant unchanged in drying. 



12. B. leucantha, Torr. & Gray. Smooth and glaucous ; branches 

 spreading j leaves short-petioled ; leaflets oblong and obovate, obtuse ; stipules 

 lanceolate, as long as the petioles, deciduous ; racemes central, and terminating 

 the branches, long, many-flowered ; ovary smooth ; legume large, oblong, much 

 inflated, long-stipitate. River-banks, Florida to South Carolina, and westward. 

 March and April. A stouter plant than the preceding, with larger leaves and 

 flowers, changing blackish in drying. Legumes 1^' long. 



13. B. leucophsea, Nutt. Hairy or smoothish ; stem stout, angled ; 

 leaves short-pctioled ; leaflets varying from oblanceolate to obovate, rigid, re- 

 ticulate, soon smooth above ; stipules and bracts leafy, ovate-lanceolate, per- 

 sistent; racemes stout, declined, 1 -sided ; flowers large, yellowish-white, on long 

 and slender erect pedicels.; ovary villous ; legume ovoid, long-pointed. (B. 

 bracteata, Mufit.) Dry rich oak woods, Wrightsboro, Georgia, and westward. 

 April. Stem low, with widely spreading branches. Racemes 4' -12' long. 

 Flowers 1' long, the vexillum spotted with brown. Plant turns black m drying. 



j- .4- -i- Flowers blue. 



14. B. australis, II. Brown Smooth ; leaves all short-petiolcd ; leaflets 

 cuneate-obovate ; stipules leafy, lanceolate, twice as long as the petioles ; ra- 

 cemes large, erect, many-flowered; flowers (indigo blue) very large; bracts 

 deciduous; legume oblong. (B. ca;rulea, Nutt.) Banks of rivers, Georgia 

 (Pursh), and westward. June and July. Stem 2 -3 high. Flowers 1' or 

 more long. Legume 2' long. Plant unchanged in drying. 



