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quite irregular, its small yellow petals not much exceeding the narrow, scarious- 

 edged sepals ; legume linear, compressed, pubescent, or even hirsute, * * 2 to 



2 cm. long * * V 



"" Separable from nictitans by the narrowly linear, very numerous, leaflets, the 

 more hairy pod, and the late period of flowering." 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Florida to Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Damp shaded banks, grassy borders of fields. Mobile County, Monroe 

 Park. Baldwin County, Daphne. Cullmau County. Lee County, Auburn (linker 

 A- Earle). Flowers vellow; August 23. Annual. 



Type locality: " Near Jacksonville [Fla.], A. H. Curtiss * * * 1894. Talla- 

 hassee, G. V. Nash * * * 1895." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



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



MOHR'S HOARY SENSITIVE PEA. 



Cassia aspera mohrii Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 151. 1897. 



"Leaflets hoary-pubescent with sti ft' white hairs on both sides, petiolar gland 

 depressed-cupuliform, substipitate." 



Louisianian area. 



ALABAMA: Borders sandy fields and pine woods. Mobile. Flowers August; rare. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : " Collected in Mobile in 1878 by Dr. Mohr." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. (type specimen). Herb. Mohr. 



Chamaecrista nictitans (L.) Moench. Meth. 272. 1794. 



Cassia nictitans L. Sp. PI. 1 : 380. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 474. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 148. Chap. Fl. 115. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:92. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Massachusetts and central New York, through- 

 out the Ohio Valley, south to Georgia, Arkansas, and Texas. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Open places, old fields. Dekalb County, Lookout 

 Mountain, Men tone. September 1. Infrequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



GLEDITSIA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1056. 1753. HONEY LOCUST. 



Five species eastern Asia. North America, 2. Trees. 

 Gleditsia triacanthos L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1056. 1753. HONEY LOCUST. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 709. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 149. Chap. Fl. 115. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 95. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 3 : 75, t. 125. 



Carolinian and Louisianian area. Pennsvlvania, western Virginia to Missouri, 

 south to Florida, and through the Gulf region to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Throughout the State in bottom lauds. Lauderdale, Blount, and 

 Montgomery counties. May; fruit ripe October. Large tree, 50 to 80 feet high. 

 Most frequent on the larger tributaries of the Alabama River; spreading in clear- 

 ings, old fields, and waste places, southward to the coast and becoming troublesome. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CLADRASTIS Raf. Neog. 1. 1825. 



One species, South Atlantic America. 

 Cladrastis lutea (Michx. ) Koch, Dendrol. 1 : 6. 1869. YELLOW-WOOD. 



Virgilia lutea Michx. f. Arb. Am. 3 : 266, t . 3. 1813. 



Cladrastis tinctoria Raf. Neogen. 1. 1825. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 127. Chap. Fl. 113. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 3 : 55, t. 19, 20. 



Carolinian area. Central Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Shaded bluffs. Colbert County, Sheffield Landing 

 on the Tennessee River (M. C. Wilson). Flowers white. May. Small tree; rare. 



Economic uses: An ornamental tree. 



Type locality (Michx. f. Arb. Am. trans.) : "Confined to that part of west Tennes- 

 see which lies between the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh degrees of latitude." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



