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Trifolium pxoraloidea Walt. Fl. Car. 184. 1788. 



Psoralea melilotoides Miclix. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 58. 1803. 



P. efflanduloaa Ell. Sk. 2 : 198. 1824. 



Ell.' Sk. 1. c. Cray, Man. ed. 6, 130. Chap. Fl. 92. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. Southern Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, 

 Louisiana, and Mississippi to North Carolina and Tennessee. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Coast Pine belt. Gravelly and 

 rocky places. Lauderdale County, in the barrens. Winston County (T. M. Peters). 

 St. Clair County, Coosa hills; abundant. Tuscaloosa Count? ' (E. A. Smith). Wilcox 

 County (Buckley). Clarke County, Choctavv Corner. Washington County, Yellow- 

 pine. Flowers June, July. Fruit purplish. Frequent. Rootstock long, cylindrical. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Psoralea simplex Nntt. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 303. 1840. 



Anna M. Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 110. 



Louisiauian area. Southern Mississippi to Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Indian 

 Territory. 



ALABAMA : Lower Pine region to Coast plain. Springy grassy banks, low wet 

 thickets. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County, Mou Louis Island. Flow- 

 ers deep blue. June. One and one half to 2 feet high. From a turbinate tuberous 

 thick spindle-shaped or cylindrical rootstock, over 6 inches in length. Rare. 



Type locality: "Plains of Red River, Arkansas, Nuttall! Texas, Drummond! " 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Psoralea caiiescens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 57. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 195. Chap. Fl. 92. 



Louisianian area. Florida to North Carolina and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry gravelly pine barrens. Baldwin County, 

 bluffs at Montrose. Flowers maize-yellow, May, June. Rootstock fusiform. Not 

 frequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Carolina et Georgia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



AMORPHA L. Sp. PI. 2:713. 1753. FALSE INDIGO. 



Eight species, shrubs, temperate North America. 

 Amorpha fruticosa L. Sp. PI. 2 : 713. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 188. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 132. Chap. Fl. 93. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:76. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Pennsylvania to Florida, west to Texas, 

 Arkansas, Colorado, and Manitoba, near Lake Winnipeg. 



ALABAMA : Throughout the State. Damp shady bottom lands, low banks of streams. 

 Flowers deep blue, April. May. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Amorpha glabra Desf. Tabl. Hort. Par. 192. 1804. SMOOTH AMORPHA. 



Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1 : 305. Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 25 : 279. 



Snffrutescent, perennial, 3 to 4^ inches high, nearly glabrous; stem slender, erect 

 or ascending, leafy throughout, purplish and more or less verrucose ; leaves 6 to 8 

 inches long and 1 to 1 inches wide, with 12 to 20 pairs of oblong or elliptical petiolu- 

 lato leaflets, apiculateby the excurrent midrib; spikes densely flowered, 6 to 8 inches 

 long, panicled; flowers short-pedicelled; vexillum violet-blue, style hairy; calyx 

 glandular, more or less villous on the margins of the unequal divisions, pod one- 

 seeded, about 3 lines long and 1 line wide, glandular-roughened, the dorsal suture 

 straight. 1 



Louisianian area. Coast of North Carolina to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain, borders of swamps. Mobile County, West Fowl River; 

 marshes of Mobile River. Flowers blue. May, June. Infrequent. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Amorpha virgata Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 17. 1894. MOUNTAIN FALSE INDIGO. 



Carolinian area. Mountains of Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rocky woods. Jackson County, wooded ridges at 

 Gurley's, 1,200 feet. Clay County, Che-aw-ha Mountain, 2,000 to 2,400 feet. To all 

 appearances not rare on the highest ranges. 



1 Description drawn from C. D. Beadle, 1. c. 



