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Typo locality: ‘Hab. in Virginia, Carolina et Georgia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Cracca chrysophylla (Pursh) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl.1:174. 1891. 
PROSTRATE GOAT'S RUE. 
Tephrosia chrysophylla Pursh, 1]. Am. Sept. 2:489. 1814. 
T. prostrata Nutt. Gen. 2:120. 1818. 
Ell. Sk. 2:246. Chap. Fl. 95. 
Louisianian area. Georgia and Florida west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Sandy pine barrens. Mobile County. Baldwin 
County, Stockton. Flowers white and purplish, July, September. Frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘In Georgia. nslen.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Cracca cinerea (L.) Morong, Ann. N, Y. Acad. Sci. 7:79. 1892. 
CINEREOUS TEPHROSIA. 
Galega cinerea L. Amoen. Acad. 5:403. 1759. 
Tephrosia cinerea Pers. Syn. 2:528. 1807. 
From a stout ligneous root. Stems prostrate, diffuse or ascending, 1} to 2 feet or 
more long, appressed cinereous pubescent, becoming glabrate with age; stipules + 
to # inch long, subnlate, acuminate, persisting; petioles 4 to } inch long; leaflets 16 
or 17, linear-oblong, 1 to 2 inches long, } to inch broad, obtuse or acutish at the 
apex, glabrous above, cinereous, strigose, or pubescent beneath, becoming often 
glabrate with age; racemes 3 to 3} inches long; flowers geminate or in clusters, 
scattered; bracts subulate or setaceous, persisting, legumen 1 to 1} inches long, + 
inch wide, spreading, cinereous-pubescent or glabrate, straight. (Vail, shortened.) 
Griseb. Fl. Brit. W Ind. 182. 
West INpIEs, Mexico To BRaziL, MONTEVIDEO. 
ALABAMA: Introduced with ballast. Mobile, first observed in 1886, established 
since near the shipping. Flowers white, with purple; May, June. Trailing stems 2 
to 4 fect long. | ruit ripe in July. 
Type locality: Jamaica. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
EKRAUNHGIA Raf. Med. Rep. ser. 2, 5: 352. 1808. 
WISTERIA Nutt. Gen. 2:115. 1818. 
Four species, eastern Asia. South Atlantic North America, 1. 
Kraunhia frutescens (L.) Greene, Pittonia, 2:175. 1891. AMERICAN WISTERIA. 
Glycine frutescens L. Sp. Pl. 2: 753. 1753. 
Wisteria speciosa Nutt. Gen. 2:116. 1818. 
HW’. frutescens Poir. ‘Tabl. Encycl. 3: 674. 1823. 
Ell. Sk. 2:237. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 134. Chap. FJ.95. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:81. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern Virginia and Tennessee west to 
southern Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, sonth to Texas, Louisiana, and Florida to 
North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Swampy borders of woods. 
Wilcox County, Pineapple. Clarke County, Suggsville (Ur. Denny). Mobile 
County. Flowers deep blue; May to July. Shrub climbing high trees. Most fre- 
quent in the coast plain. 
Economic uses: Ornamental. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ROBINIA L. Sp. Pl. 2:722. 1753. 
Six species, temperate North America. Trees or shrubs. 
Robinia pseudacacia L. Sp. Pl. 2: 722. 1753. Buiackx Locust. 
Ell. Sk.2:242. Gray, Man. ed. 6,134. Chap. F194. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 3:39, ¢. 222. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas, From Pennsylvania throughout the Allegheny 
ranges to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountainregion. Rich woods, calcareous soil. Dekalb County, Look- 
out Mountain below Mentone, 1,500 feet; indigenous. In the lower country culti- 
vated and widely disseminated in waste places. Flowers white; May. 
Economic uses: Valuable for its wood. Ornamental shade tree, 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab.in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
