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quite irregular, its small yellow petals not much exceeding the narrow, scarious- 
edged sepals; legume linear, compressed, pubescent, or even hirsute, ~ * * 2to 
2+cem.long * * *.” 
“‘Separable from nictitans by the narrowly linear, very numerous, leaflets, the 
more hairy pod, and the late period of flowering.” 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Florida to Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Damp shaded banks, grassy borders of fields. Mobile County, Monroe 
Park. Baldwin County, Daphne. Cullman County. Lee County, Auburn (/aker 
§ Earle). Flowers yellow; August 23. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘Near Jacksonville [Fla.], A. H. Curtiss * * “ 1894. Talla- 
hassee,G.V.Nash * * * 1895.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr, 
Chamaecrista aspera mohrii (Pollard) Pollard; Heller, Cat. N. A. Pl. ed.2,5. 1900. 
Mour’s Hoary SENSITIVE PEA. 
Cassia aspera mohrit Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:151. 1897. 
“Leaflets hoary-pubescent with stiff white hairs on both sides, petiolar gland 
depressed-cupuliform, substipitate.” 
Louisianian area. 
i ALaBAMA: Borders sandy fields and pine woods. Mobile. Flowers August; rare. 
nnual. 
Type locality: ‘ Collected in Mobile in 1878 by Dr. Mohr.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. (type specimen). Herb. Mohr. 
Chamaecrista nictitans (L.) Moench. Meth. 272. 1794. 
Cassia nictitans L. Sp. Pl. 1: 380. 1753. 
El. Sk.1:474. Gray, Man.ed.6,148. Chap. FI.115. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:92. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Massachusetts and central New York, through- 
out the Ohio Valley, south to Georgia, Arkansas, and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Open places, old fields. Dekalb County, Lookout 
Mountain, Mentone. September1. Infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab.in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
GLEDITSIA L. Sp. Pl. 2: 1056. 1753. Honey Locust. 
Five species eastern Asia. North America, 2. Trees. 
Gleditsia triacanthos L. Sp. Pl. 2:1056. 1753. Honry Locust. 
Ell. Sk.2:709. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 149. Chap. Fl. 115. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:95. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 3:75, t. 125, 
.Carolinian and Louisianian area. Pennsvlvania, western Virginia to Missouri, 
south to Florida, and through the Gulf region to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the State in bottom lands. Lauderdale, Blount, and 
Montgomery counties. May; fruit ripe October. Large tree, 50 to 80 feet high. 
Most frequent on the larger tributaries of the Alabama River; spreading in clear- 
ings, oli fields, and waste places, southward to the coast and becoming troublesome. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Virginia,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
CLADRASTIS Raf. Neog.1. 1825. 
One species, South Atlantic America. 
Cladrastis lutea (Michx.) Koch, Dendrol. 1:6. 1869. YELLOW-WoopD. 
Virgilia lutea Michx. f. Arb. Am. 3: 266, t. 3. 1818. 
Cladrastis tinctoria Raf. Neogen.1. 1825. 
Gray, Man. ed.6,127. Chap. F1.113. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 3:55, t. 19, 20. 
Carolinian area. Central Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Shaded bluffs. (Colbert County, Sheffield Landing 
on the Tennessee River (M. C. Wilson). Flowers white. May. Small tree; rare. 
Economic uses: An ornamental tree. 
Type locality (Michx. f. Arb. Am. trans.): ‘Confined to that part of west Tennes- 
see which lies between the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh degrees of latitude.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
