CLASS X. ORDER I. IgJ 



leafets wedge-obovate ; flowers in terminal spikes. 



Mich. abr. 



Syn. SopHORA tinctoria. L. 



Baptisia tinctoria. Nult. 



A very common, bushy plant, found in woods and dry soils. 

 Stem smooth, very much branched. Leaves in threes on a short 

 petiole ; leafets rounded at the end, and tapering to an acute 

 base. Stipules very small, caducous. Flowers in a loose spike, 

 on slender peduncles, yellow ; banner rather shorter than the 

 wings and keel. Legumes short, rounded, of a bluish cast. — 

 August. — Perenn ial. 



For the medicinal properties of this plant, see Dr. Thatcher's 

 Dispensatory. 



188. CASSIA. 

 Cassia CuAMiECRisTA. L. Dwarf Cassia. 



Leaves in many pairs ; petiole with a pedicelled 

 gland ; stipules ensiform. L. 



Leaves pinnate, with ten or a dozen pair of leafets ; the peti- 

 ole with a small gland supported on a footstalk near its base. 

 Flowers often in pairs, near the stem, yellow, two of the petals 

 spotted at base. Like others of its family it shuts its leaves at 

 night, or after an injury. — Road sides. — August. — Annual. 



Cassia nictitans. L. Sensitive Cassia. 



Stem spreading. Leaves in many pairs, linear; 

 petiole with a pedicelled gland; flowers pentandrous; 

 stamens equal. 



About a foot high, erect or procumbent, much branched. 

 Leaves small, oblong-linear, noucronate. Flowers very small, 

 above the axils, dark yellow, fascicled. Stamens all fertile. — 

 Waltham, Duxbury. Mr. Russell. — July, August. — Annual. 



Cassia Marilandica. American Senna. 



American Medical Botany, PI. xxxix. 



Leafets in eight or nine pairs, oblong-lanceolate, 

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