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sides, flowers axillary and subraceniose bracts 

 anceolate— m Carolina, Florida and Alabama, 

 leaves 2 or 3 inches long, flowers vernal dark 

 jellow. 



330. Lasinia FtJLVA Raf. branches terete 

 and pubescent, stipules obsolete, leaves and fo- 

 holes sessile, smooth oblong elliptic base acute 

 end obtuse retuse, minutely nervose reticulate 

 on both sides, flowers chiefly axillary, some 

 racemose, bracts oblong hairy calix pubescent 

 pistil and pod fulvous very hairy.— Tennessee 

 and Arkanzas, leaves uncial, flowers small of a 

 dull fulvous yellow. A very distinct sp. proba- 

 bly blended among B. viUosa which includes 

 several sp. according to Elliott. 



331, Lasinia bicolor Raf. (or grandifolia) 

 stem dichotome pubescent, leaves petiolate, sti- 

 pules linear, folioles sessile obovate or elliptical 

 base acute, end obtuse or emarginate, margin 

 cihate, pubescent beneath, reticulate above, ra- 

 cemes short ovate pauciflore— in Arkanzas 

 and Texas, beautiful striking sp. leaves larger 

 than in any other about 3 inches long, stipules 

 petiols and calix pubescent, racemes with 8 or 

 10 flowers crowded large of a dull yellow with 

 a large purplish spot at the base of the vexillum 

 nearest to B. mollis of Mx. but very different 

 from the next. 



332. Lasinia pallens Raf stem sulcate 

 nearly smooth, pubescent above, stipules lan- 

 ceolate, leaves sessile, folioles sessile oblong 

 cuneate obtuse emarginate pubescent beneath, 

 racemes oblong pauciflore, calix acute — Alaba- 

 ma and Apalachian mts. leaves biunciai, ra- 

 ceme triuncial of 10 or 12 large flowers of a 

 dull yellow. Still nearer L, mollis, teeth of ca- 

 lix acute as in it, but very little hairy and not 



