558 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
BAPTISIA Vent. Dec. Gen. Nov.9. 1808. 
Fourteen species, perennials, Atlantic North America, largely southeastern. 
Baptisia lanceolata (Walt.) Ell. Sk. 1: 467. 1817. LANCEOLATE Fats INDIGO. 
Sophora Janceolata Walt. F. Car. 135, 1788. 
Podalyria uniflora Michx. V1. Bor. Am. 1: 263. 1803. 
Ell. Sk.1:467. Chap. Fl. 111. 
Louisianian area. Florida to North Carolina, west to Louisiana and Arkansas. 
ALaBaMa: Lower Pine region. Dry pine barrens. Baldwin County. Flowers 
yellow. April; rare. 
Almost glabrous, flowers mostly single, rarely in puirs. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Baptisia leucantha Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A.1:385. 1840. 
WHITE-FLOWERED FALSK INDIGO, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,126. Chap. Fl. 112. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, south to Ohio, 
Missouri, Arkansas, aud Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Louisianian area. Damp banks. Washington County. Flowers 
white. May; rare. 
Type locality: ‘In rich alluvial soil, Upper Canada (near Lake Erie), Michigan! 
Ohio! to Louisiana!” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Baptisia megacarpa Chap.F 1.111. 1860. 
Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 121. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Georgia, middle Florida. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Metamorphic hills. Open woodlands. Tallapoosa 
County, Dadeville (Biltmore Herb. 1899). Flowers pale yellow, May. Perennial. 
Rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Light rich soil, Gadsden County, middle Florida, and along the 
Flint River, near Albany, Ga.” 
THERMOPSIS R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 3: 3. 1811. 
One hundred and twenty-three species, perennial herbs. Siberia, Himalayan 
India. North America, 7. 
Thermopsis fraxinifolia Nutt.in Torr. & Gray, F1.N.A.1: 387. 1840. 
Chap. Fl. 113. 
Carolinian area. North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain near Mentone 
(May, 1899, Miss Loring). Rare. 
‘Type locality: ‘Found chiefly upon the Catawba ridge, North Carolina, in open 
bushy forests.” 
CROTALARIA L. Sp. Pl. 2:714. 1753. RarrLu-rop, 
Two hundred and fifty species, of warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
Crotalaria rotundifolia (Walt.) Poir. Encyel. Supp]. 2:402. 1811. 
RoOuND-LEAV RarrLy Box, 
Anonymos rotundifolia Walt. Fl. Car. 181. 1788. 
Crotalaria sagittifolia var. rotundifolia Michx. Fl. Bor, Ain. 2:55, 1803. 
C. ovalis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:469, 1814. 
Ell. Sk. 2:194. Chap. F1. 89. 
Mexico, SourH AMERICA. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Virginia, North Carolina to Florida, west to 
Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry sandy open woods. Cullman 
County, 800 feet. Pike County, Troy. Chilton County, Verbena (7. 4. Smith). Lee 
County, Auburn, 860 feet (Baker g* Karle). Escambia County (Baker §: Larle), Mobile 
County. Flowersyellow. May, June; fruit black, June. Most frequent throughout 
the Central and Coast Pine belts. Perennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Crotalaria sagittalis L.Sp.P1.2:714. 1753. CoMMON RAtTTLK-PEA, 
Ell. Sk.2:293, Gray, Man.ed.6,127, Chap. 1.89. ‘ 
