556 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Chamaecrista fascicularis (Miehx.) Greene, Pittonia, 3 : 212. 1897. 



Cassia fascicularis Miclix. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 262. 1803. 



C. chamaecrista L. Sp. PI. 1:379. 1753. (?) 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 473. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 148. Chap. Fl. 115. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:92. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New England Avest to Minnesota, Dakota., Ne- 

 braska, Colorado, south to Florida and west to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Dry sunny places; fields and open copses. Clay 

 County. Tuscaloosa, Clarke, Washington, and Mobile counties. Flowers bright yel- 

 low, August, September. Common; annual. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Pennsylvania et Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chamaecrista robusta (Pollard) Pollard; Heller, Cat. N. A. PI. ed. 2, 5. 1900. 



ROBUST SENSITIVE PEA. 



C. Chamaecrista var. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 396. 1840. 



C. Chamaecrista robusla Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 218. 1894. 



Cassia robusta Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 150. 1897. 



Robust, 12 to 18 inches high, erect, branches more or less pubescent; leaves H to 

 2 inches long, i to f inch wide, leaflets 8 to 15 pairs, inch long, -J- inch wide, 

 asymmetric, linear, obtuse, glabrous; petiole -} inch long, with a small, patellnr subses- 

 sile gland in the middle; rachis pubescent; stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, like 

 the sepals strongly ciliate; the large, golden-yellow petals double the length of the 

 sepals ; legumes in pairs, erect on spreading elongated peduncles, linear, 1 to U inches 

 long, pubescent with long spreading hairs. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Kentucky. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. LoAver Pine region. Open copses, borders of Avoods. 

 Clay County. Delta, 1,600 feet. Washington County (E. A. Smith). Annual. 



Type locality : " Collected by Dr. C. W. Short in the mountains of Kentucky." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chamaecrista mississippiensis (Pollard) Pollard; Heller, Cat. N. A. PI. ed. 3, 5. 

 1900. 



Cassia mississippiensis Pollard, Bull. Torr. Clnb, 21 : 219. 1894. 



11 Low, branching, suffruticose, stem terete, glabrous ; leaves subeoriaoeous. pubes- 

 cent, 8 to 14 foliate ; leaflets small, elliptical or obovate, muerouate; * petio- 

 lar gland minute, cupuliform, sessile * ; stipules acutely linear, membrana- 

 ceous, persistent; peduncles 1 cm. long, axillary, 1-flowered ; flower large, 

 anthers 10, rostrate, all perfect, the lower 5 larger, yellow, the upper smaller and red- 

 dish; sepals lance-linear, slightly pubescent, not surpassing the petals; legume tur- 

 gid, linear, sparsely pubescent * * ." 



Louisianian area. Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry sandy borders of fields. Mobile County, loose sands 

 western shore Mobile Bay. Flowers yellow. Perennial. 



Type locality: "Collected by Miss K. Skeehan, 1889, at Ocean Springs, M-s." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chamaecrista chamaecristoides (Colladon) Greene, Pittonia, 4 : 20. 1899. 



Cassia chamaecristoides Colladon, Hist. Cass. 134. 1816. 



Cassia depressa Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 22 : 515. 1895. 



Chamaecrista depressa Greene, Pittonia, 3 : 242. 1897. 



Low, slender, diffusely branched, branches assurgent, finely strigose-pubeseent; 

 leaves 1 to 1 inches long, | inch wide, leaflets 10 to 15 pairs linear, narrow, acutish, 

 the midnerve bent toward the upper margin, excurrent in a long fine cusp, midrib 

 and margin rough; stipules small, linear; in our plant the small gland slightly 

 stipitate. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Florida and Missouri. , 



ALABAMA : Coast plain, damp shaded banks. Baldwin County, Daphne. August 

 23, 1896, flower buds scarcely developed. Perennial. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Chamaecrista multipinnata (Pollard) Greene, Pittonia, 3 : 243. 1897. 



MANY-LEAVED SENSITIVE PEA. 



Cassia multipinnata Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 22 : 515. 1895. 



Slender, tall, erect, more or less branched ; stem slightly Avoody at base, pubes- 

 cent ; leaves lanceolate-elliptical in outline, 20 to 25 foliolate * * * ; leaflets 10 mm. 

 long, 1| mm. wide, glabrous, narrowly linear, cuspidate; petiolar gland minute, 

 depressed-cupuliform, substipitate; * * * flowers scattered, sessile, the corolla 



