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nearly equal ; stipules l£-2 inches long ; legume about 2 inches, 

 corolla (yellow) 8-10 lines long. Flowers May-July. — Discov- 

 ered in 1839 near Pigeon River, Haywood County, and on the 

 Hiwassee, Cherokee County, N. C. Found in many other local- 

 ities the past summer by Mr. Buckley. 



Thermopsis fraxinifolia : slender, branching, geniculate, nearly 

 glabrous ; leaves petioled ; leaflets oblong, cuneate, smooth above, 

 glaucous and with slightly pubescent veins beneath ; upper sti- 

 pules lanceolate, much shorter than the petiole, the lower larger 

 and ovate ; raceme terminal, peduncled ; flowers (yellow) mostly 

 alternate, on slender pedicels which are longer than the calyx 

 and the linear lanceolate persistent bracts ; teeth of the calyx 

 short, the upper one emarginate, the lower triangular ; legumes 

 linear, falcate, compressed, spreading, pubescent, shortly stipitate, 

 about 10-seeded. — Baptisia mollis, Nutt., Gen., and Torr. & 

 Gray, N. A. Flora, in part. B. fraxinifolia, Nutt., Mss., ex 

 Torr. & Gray. 



Stem 2-2J feet high; leaflets 2-2J inches long; petioles f of 

 an inch ; legumes 3 inches, on pedicels more than £ an inch 

 long, the stipe shorter than the calyx ; flower 8-9 lines long. — 

 Table Mountain ; also on mountains in Henderson and Macon 

 Counties, N. C. : Mr. Buckley. This plant does not turn black 

 in drying, but the flowers become whitish. It appears to be 

 confined to the mountains. My own specimens are derived from 

 the same locality with INuttall's Baptisia mollis, and are doubt- 

 less the same species. The plant collected by Schweinitz, (vid. 

 Torr. & Gray, N. A. Flora, I. 695,) is probably the Baptisia 

 mollis, Michx., to which a portion of the description in the N. A. 

 Flora is alone applicable. 



Baptisia mollis, Michx. : diffusely branching, and the whole 

 plant rather softly pubescent ; leaves petioled ; leaflets lance- 

 oblong, cuneate ; stipules foliaceous, lance-oblong or ovate, about 

 equalling the petioles ; racemes terminal, peduncled, rather 

 crowded ; flowers (yellow) alternate or geminate, on pedicels 

 shorter than the calyx ; bracts lanceolate, longer than the pedi- 

 cels ; upper segment of the calyx obtuse or emarginate, the oth- 

 ers lance-subulate ; legume oblong, turgid, shortly stipitate. 



Stem 2-2i feet high ; leaflets 2-2£ inches long, petioles about 

 J-f of an inch ; pedicels 2-3 lines ; legumes about | of an inch, 

 few seeded ; stipe shorter than the calyx. Flowers bright yellow, 



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