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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



Fig. 295. Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus dioica). . Inflor- 

 escence from staminate tree. 2. Pistillate flower. 3. Diagram of 

 flower. 4. Longitudinal section of staminate flower. 5. Pistillate 

 flower with a portion removed. 6. Pistil with a section of ovary 

 removed. 7. Portion of branch bearing a single fruit, showing seed 

 and embryo. 8. Cross section of seed. 9. Portion of leaf. 10. 

 Portion of winter branch. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, one-half natural size. 

 (M. M. Cheney in Green's Forestry in Minnesota.) 



3. Thermopsis R. Br. 



Perennial with finely oppressed pubescence, 2-3 feet high ; leaves rhombic- 

 olate leaves and foliaceous stipules; flowers large, yellow or purple, borne in 

 racemes ; calyx bell-shaped or short-turbinate, with equal and separate lobes 

 or the upper united ; standard nearly orbicular, as long as the oblong wings and 

 the keel; stamens 10, separate and in-curved; pistils sessile or short-stalked, 

 frequently flat, linear, oblong or curved, ovules numerous. A small genus of 

 about 15 species of North America and Asia. 



Thermopsis mollis (Michx.) M. A. Curtis. Alleghany Thermopsis 



Perennial with finely appressed pubescence, 2-3 feet high; leaves rhombic- 

 lanceolate, 1-3 inches long, entire and nearly sessile ; stipules ovate or lanceolate ; 



