556 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Chamaecrista fascicularis (Michx.) Greene, Pittonia, 3: 242. 1897. 
Cassia fascicularis Michx. I]. Bor. Am. 1: 262. 1803. 
C. chamaecrista L. Sp. Pl. 1:379. 1753. (?) 
Ell. Sk.1:473. Gray, Man. ed. 6,148. Chap. Fl. 115. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:92. 
Alleghenian to Lonisianian area. New England west to Minnesota, Dakota, Ne- 
braska, Colorado, south to Florida and west to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Over the State. Dry sunny places; fields and open copses. Clay 
County. Tuscaloosa, Clarke, Washington, and Mobile counties. Flowers bright yel- 
low, August, September. Common; annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Pennsylvania et Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Chamaecrista robusta (Pollard) Pollard; Heller, Cat. N. A. Pl. ed. 2,5. 1900. 
Roxsusr SENSITIVE Pra, 
C. chamaecrista var. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N.A.1:396. 1840. 
C. chamaecrista robusta Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 218. 1894. 
Cassia robusta Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:150. 1897. 
Robust, 12 to 18 inches high, erect, branches more or less pubescent; leaves 14 to 
24 inches long, } to 2 inch wide, leaflets 8 to 15 pairs,-+ inch long,4 inch wide, 
asymmetric, linear, obtuse, glabrous; petiole inch long, with asmall, patellar subses- 
sile gland in the middle; rachis pubescent; stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, like 
the sepals strongly ciliate; the large, golden-yellow petals double the length of the 
sepals; legumesin pairs, erect on spreading elongated peduncles, linear, 1 to 1} inches 
long, pubescent with Jong spreading hairs. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Kentucky. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower Pine region. Open copses, borders of woods. 
Clay County, Delta, 1,600 feet. Washington County (#..4. Smith). Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Collected by Dr. C. W. Short in the mountains of Kentucky.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. ; 
Chamaecrista mississippiensis (Pollard) Pollard; Heller, Cat. N. A. Pl. ed. 3, 5. 
1900. 
Caasia mississippiensis Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:219. 1894. 
“Low, branching, suffruticose, stem terete, glabrous; leaves subcoriaceous, pubes- 
cent, 8 to 14 foliate; leaflets small, elliptical or obovate, mucronate; * * *  petio- 
lar gland minute, cupuliform, sessile * * * 3; stipules acutely linear, membrana- 
ceous, persistent; peduncles 1 cm. long, axillary, 1-flowered; flower large, * * * 
anthers 10, rostrate, all perfect, the lower 5 larger, yellow, the upper smaller and red- 
dish; sepals lance-linear, slightly pubescent, not surpassing the petals; legume tur- 
gid, linear, sparsely pubescent * * * .” 
Louisianian area. Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Dry sandy borders of fields. Mobile County, loose sands 
western shore Mobile Bay. Flowers yellow. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘Collected by Miss K. Skeehan, 1889, at Ocean Springs, Miss.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Chamaecrista chamaecristoides (Colladon) Greene, Pittonia, 4:20. 1899. 
Cassia chamaecristoides Colladon, Hist. Cass. 134. 1816. 
Cassia depressa Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 22:515. 1895. 
Chamaecrista depressa Greene, Pittonia, 3: 242. 1897. 
Low, slender, diffusely branched, branches assurgent, finely strigose-pubescent; 
leaves 1 to 1} inches long, } inch wide, leaflets 10 to 15 pairs linear, narrow, acutish, 
the midnerve bent toward the upper margin, excurrent in a long fine cusp, midrib 
one ais rough; stipules small, linear; in our plant the small gland slightly 
stipitate. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Florida and Missouri. 
ALaBAMA: Coast plain, damp shaded banks. Baldwin County, Daphne. August 
23, 1896, flower buds scarcely developed. Perennial. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Chamaecrista multipinnata (Pollard) Greene, Pittonia,3:243. 1897. 
MANY-LEAVED SENSITIVE PRA. 
Cassia multipinnata Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 22:515, 1895. 
Slender, tall, erect, more or less branched; stem slightly woody at base, pubes- 
cent; leaves lanceolate-elliptical in outline, 20 to 25foliolate * * *; leaflets 10mm. 
long, 14 mm. wide, glabrous, narrowly linear, cuspidate; petiolar gland minute, 
depressed-cupuliform, substipitate; * * * flowers scattered, sessile, the corolla 
