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flexed; keel petals nearly separate, and, like the wings, straight, stamens 

 10, distinct, pod stalked in the persistent calyx, roundish or oblong, in- 

 flated, pointed, many seeded, smooth, 2-3 feet high, rather glaucous; 

 corolla yellow, \ inch long. Flowers in July and August. 



BAPTISIA LEUCANTHA, Torr & Gray- 

 Smooth; 1-3 feet high slender and the branches wide spreading; very 

 similar to the foregoing, but pod long-stalked, and standard of the cor- 

 olla very short. Flowers white. 



BAPTISIA ALBA, B. Brown (White Baptisia). 



Similar to the former; flowers white, pods linear, oblong, short stalk- 

 ed. The branches of the pyramidal growing plant slender and widely 

 spreading. May. 



BAPTISIA AUSTBALIS, R. Brown--(j&K False Indigo). 



Is of similar habit, but taller and stouter; 4-5 feet high; raceme elon- 

 gated, 1-2 feet long; flowers one inch long, indigo blue; often cultivated 

 in gardens. (Bridgeport). Flowers in summer. The Baptisias are gen- 

 erally not touched by any stock. In drying they turn black. 



THERMOPSIS MOLLIS, Curtes- (Downy Leafed Thermopsis}. 



Genus like Baptisia, but with a long, narrow flat pod; plant 1-2 feet 

 high; minutely soft, downy; leaflets wedge obovate, varying to oblong; 

 raceme reclining; flowers golden yellow, pod long and linear. This is a 

 rare plant in this State, and found yet but in one locality, on Judge Lee's 

 place, top of Harpeth ridge. For several years in succession the cattle 

 had eaten it down in a measure that I could obtain but two good speci- 

 mens. It flowers in June. 



CLADRASTIS TINCTORIA, naf~( Yellow wood). 



Attains considerable size in the Harpeth hills by Nashville. One tree 

 measured 10 feet round about 4 feet above the ground. Its hight, how- 

 ever, was only about thirty feet. Other specimens attain more hight 

 by less thickness. Flowers similar to the locust. Well enough known 

 in this region. 



CERCIS CANDENSIS, L-- 



The red bud needs no description. It ought to be used as an orna- 

 mental tree. 

 GLEDITSCHIA TRIACANTHOS, ^--(H&ney Locust). 



Its pods are eaten by stock, and young trees are frequently kept 

 down in a stunted condition from the biting and browsing of stock. 



