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varying from oblong-ovate to lanceolate and linear, very veiny, shining ; 

 peduncles 1 - 4-flowercd ; calyx-teeth linear-awl-t'haped. Sandy dry woods, 

 Virginia and southward. July. Corolla 1' long, violet. Pods straight, nar- 

 row, 4' -5' long. 



29. BAPTISM A, Vent, FALSE INDIGO. 



Calyx 4 - 5-toothed. Standard not longer than the wings, its sides reflexed : 

 keel-petals nearly separate, and, like the wings, straight. Stamens 10, distinct. 

 Pod stalked in the persistent calyx, roundish or oblong, inflated, pointed, many- 

 seeded. Perennial herbs, with palmately 3-foliolate (rarely simple) leaves, 

 which generally blacken in drying, and racemed flowers. (Named from /SaTrr/^eo, 

 to dye, from the economical use of some species, which yield a sort of indigo.) 



1. B. tiaictoria, R. Brown. (WILD INDIGO.) Smooth and slender 

 (2 -3 high), rather glaucous ; leaves almost sessile; leaflets rounded wedge- 

 obovate (if' long); stipules and bracts minute and deciduous ; racemes few-flowered ', 

 terminating the bushy branches ; pods oval-globose, on a stalk longer than the 

 calyx. Sandy dry soil, common. June - Aug. Corolla yellow, ' long. 



2. B. mistralis, R. Brown. (BLUE FALSE-!NDIGO.) Smooth, tall 

 and stout (4 -5); leaflets oblong- wedge-form, obtuse; stipules lanceolate, as 

 long as the petioles, rather persistent ; raceme elongated (l-2) and many-flowered, 

 erect ; bracts deciduous ; stalk of the oval-oblong pods about the length of tJie calyx. 



Alluvial soil, from Penn. westward and southward: often cultivated. June. 



Flowers 1' long, indigo-blue. Pods 2' -3' long. 



3. B. Icucaiitlia, Torr. & Gr. Smooth; stems, leaves, and racemes as 

 in No. 2 ; stipules early deciduous ; pods oval-oblong, raised on a stalk fully twice the 

 length of the calyx. Alluvial soil, Ohio to Wisconsin and southwestward. July 



Flowers white ; the standard short. Pods 2' long. 



4. B. alba, R. Brown. Smooth (l-3high); the branches slender and 

 widely spreading ; petioles slender; stipules and bracts minute and deciduous; leaf- 

 lets oblong or oblanceolate ; racemes slender on a long naked peduncle ; pods 

 linear-oblong (!'-!' long), short-stalked. Dry soil, Virginia and southward. 

 May, June. Flowers white, '-' long. 



5. B. Iciicopll&a, Nutt. Hairy, low (1 high), with divergent branches, 

 leaves almost sessile ; leaflets narrowly oblong-obovate or spatulate ; stipules and 

 bracts large and leafy, persistent ; racemes long, reclined ; flowers on elongated pedicels ; 

 pods ovoid, hoary. Michigan to Wisconsin and southward. April, May. 

 Kaceme often 1 long : pedicels l'-2', the cream-colored corolla I 7 , in length 



30. CJLADRASTIS, Raf. YELLOW-WOOD. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Standard large, roundish, reflexed : the distinct keel-petals 

 and wings straight, oblong. Stamens 10, distinct: filaments slender, incurved 

 above. Pod short-stalked above the calyx, linear, flat, thin, marginless, 4-6- 

 seeded, at length 2-valved. A small tree, with yellow wood, nearly smooth, 

 with pinnate leaves of 7-11 oval or ovate leaflets, and ample panicled racemes 

 of showy white flowers drooping from the end of the branches. Stipules 



