VETCH FAMILY. 567 



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

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cracca chrysophylla (Pursh) Kuutze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1 : 174. 1891. 



PROSTRATE GOAT'S RUE. 



Tephrosia cltrysopltylla Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:489. 1814. 



T. prostrata Nutt. Gen. 2 : 120. 1818. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 246. Chap. Fl. 95. 



Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida west to Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Sandy piije barrens. Mobile County. Baldwin 

 County, Stockton. Flowers white and purplish, July, September. Frequent. 



Type locality : "In Georgia. Enslen." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cracca cinerea (L.) Morong, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 7:79. 1892. 



CINEREOUS TEPHROSIA. 



Galega cinerea L. Amoen. Acad. 5:403. 1759. 



Tephrosia cinerea Pers. Syn. 2 : 528. 1807. 



From a stout ligneous root. Stems prostrate, diffuse or ascending, 1 to 2 feet or 

 move long, appressed cinereous pubescent, becoming glabrute with age; stipules i 

 to | inch long, subulate, acuminate, persisting; petioles i to - inch long; leaflets 16 

 or 17, linear-oblong, 1 to 2 inches long, to $ inch broad, obtuse or acutish at the 

 apex, glabrous above, cinereous, strigose, or pubescent beneath, becoming often 

 glabrate with age; racemes 3 to 3 inches long; flowers geminate or in clusters, 

 scattered ; bracts subulate or setaceous, persisting, legumeu 1 to 1^ inches long, 

 inch wide, spreading, cinereous-pubescent or glabrate, straight. (Vail, shortened.) 



Griseb. Fl. Brit. W Ind. 182. 



WEST INDIES, MEXICO TO BRAZIL, MONTEVIDEO. 



ALABAMA: Introduced with ballast. Mobile, first observed in 1886, established 

 since near the shipping. Flowers white, with purple; May, June. Trailing stems 2 

 to 4 fe-t long. I ruit ripe in July. 



Type locality : Jamaica. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



KRAUNHIA Raf. Med. Rep. ser. 2, 5 : 352. 1808. 

 WISTERIA Nutt. Gen. 2 : 115. 1818. 



Four species, eastern Asia. South Atlantic North America. 1. 

 Kraunhia frutesceiis (L.) Greene, Pittonia, 2:175. 1891. AMERICAN WISTERIA. 



Glycinefrutescens L. Sp. PI. 2 : 753. 1753. 



Wisteria speciosa Nutt. Gen. 2 : 116. 1818. 



W. frutescens Poir. Tabl. Encycl. 3 : 674. 1823. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 237. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 134. Chap. F1.95. Coulter, Coiitr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:81. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia and Tennessee west to 

 southern Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, south to Texas, Louisiana, and Florida to 

 North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Swampy borders of woods. 

 Wilcox County, Pineapple. Clarke County, Suggsville .(/)>. Denny). Mobile 

 County. Flowers deep blue; May to July. Shrub climbing high trees. Most fre- 

 quent in the coast plain. 



Economic uses: Ornamental. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ROBINIA L. Sp. PI. 2 : 722. 1753. 



Six species, temperate North America. Trees or shrubs. 

 Robinia pseudacacia L. Sp. PI. 2 : 722. 1753. BLACK LOCUST. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 242. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 134. Chap. Fl. 94, Sargent, Silv. N. A. 3 : 39, 1. 112. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. From Pennsylvania throughout the Allegheny 

 ranges to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rich woods, calcareous soil. Dekalb County, Look- 

 out Mountain below Men tone, 1,500 feet; indigenous. In the lower country culti- 

 vated and widely disseminated in waste places. Flowers white; May. 



Economic uses : Valuable for its wood. Ornamental shade tree. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



