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Trifolium psoraloides Walt. Fl. Car. 184. 1788. 
Psoralea melilotoides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:58. 1803. 
P. eglandulosa EM. Sk. 2:198. 1824. 
Ell. Sk.l.c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 1380. Chap. Fl. 92. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, 
Louisiana, and Mississippi to North Carolina and Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to Coast Pine belt. Gravelly and 
rocky places. Lauderdale County, in the barrens, Winston County (7. M. Peters). 
St. Clair County, Coosa hills; abundant. Tuscaloosa County (/. 4. Smith). Wilcox 
County (Buckley). Clarke County, Choctaw Corner. Washington County, Yellow- 
pine. Flowers June, July. Fruit purplish. Frequent. Rootstock long, cylindrical. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Psoralea simplex Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A.1:303. 1840. 
Anna M. Vail, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 110. 
Louisianian area. Southern Mississippi to Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Indian 
Territory. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region to Coast plain. Springy grassy banks, low wet 
thickets. Washington County, Yellowpine. Mobile County, Mon Louis Island. Flow- 
ers deep blue. June. One and one-half to 2 feet high. From a turbinate tuberous 
thick spindle-shaped or cylindrical rootstock, over 6 inches in length. Rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘Plains of: Red River, Arkansas, Nuttall! Texas, Drummond!” 
‘Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Psoralea canescens Michx. F]. Bor. Am. 2:57. 1803. 
Ell. 8k. 2:195. Chap. FI. 92. 
Louisianian area. Florida to North Carolina and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry gravelly pine barrens. Baldwin County, 
bluffs af Montrose. Flowers maize-yellow, May, June. Rootstock fusiform. Not 
frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Carolina et Georgia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
AMORPHA L. Sp. Pl. 2:713. 1753. Faxsr Inpico. 
Eight species, shrubs, temperate North America, 
Amorpha fruticosa L. Sp. Pl. ae 713. 1753. 
Ell. Sk. 2:188. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 132. Chap. F1.93. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:76. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Pennsylvania to Florida, west to Texas, 
Arkansas, Colorado, and Manitoba, near Lake Winnipeg. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the State. Damp shady bottom lands, low banks of streams. 
Flowers deep blue, April. May. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Amorpha glabra Desf. Tabl. Hort. Par. 192. 1804. SmootH AMORPHA. 
Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1:305. Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 25: 279. 
Suffrutescent, perennial, 3 to 44 inches high, nearly glabrous; stem slender, erect 
or ascending, leafy throughout, purplish anid more or less verru¢ose; leaves 6 to 8 
inches long and 1 to lf inches wide, with 12 to 20 pairs of oblong or elliptical petiolu- 
late leaflets, apiculate by the excurrent midrib; spikes densely flowered, 6 to 8 inches 
Jong, panicled; flowers short-pedicelled; vexillum violet-blue, style hairy; calyx 
glandular, more or less villous on the margins of the unequal divisions, pod one- 
seeded, about 3 lines long and 1 line wide, glandular-roughened, the dorsal suture 
straight.! 
Dogisianiac area, Coast of North Carolina to Florida. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain, borders of swamps. Mobile County, West Fowl River; 
marshes of Mobile River. Flowers blue. May, June. Infrequent. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Amorpha virgata Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:17. 1894. Mountain Fase INDIGO. 
Carolinian area. Mountains of Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rocky woods. Jackson County, wooded ridges at 
Gurley’s, 1,200 feet. Clay County, Che-aw-ha Mountain, 2,000 to 2,400 feet. To all 
appearances not rare on the highest ranges. : 
' Description drawn from C.D. Beadle, 1. e. 
