84 LEAFLETS. 



cent ; also the stipules spread away almost divaricately from 

 the stem, instead of being erect and appressed to the stem as 

 in other stipulate species. 



Baptisia saligna. Allied to B. leucophaea, larger, not 

 blackening in drying ; only the stems with some rather scanty 

 spreading soft pubescence ; leaves glabrous except as to a 

 sparse strigose pubescence along the midvein beneath ; leaflets 

 oblanceolate, obtuse or emarginate, 2/^ to 3J^ inches long, of 

 a deep glaucescent green and glabrous above, beneath dis- 

 tinctly glaucous : flowers in a solitary raceme, much smaller 

 than those of B. leucophaea ; calyx campanulate, deeply 5- 

 toothed, the teeth acutish, notably woolly-margined : pods 

 not known. 



Known only as collected near Tallapoosa, Georgia, in April 

 or May, 1900, by Mr. P. M. Way, the type in U. S. Herb., 

 sheet 370,935. Well marked by its long large leaflets, recall- 

 ing the leaves of certain blue-green-leaved willows ; the whole 

 plant so far from being invested by the conspicuous pubescence 

 of B. leucophaea as to appear glabrous as to all but its only 

 rather obscurely villous stem. 



Baptisia nuculifera. Plant evidently much branched, 

 closely leafy, with solitary large flowers in the axils of upper 

 leaves ; stem and midvein of leaflets beset with appressed long 

 hairs, but herbage appearing glabrous, and in drying blackened; 

 stipules apparently wanting, certainly fugacious if ever pres- 

 ent : leaflets cuneate-obovate, very obtuse, commonly emargi- 

 nate, 2V2 inches long in large plants, in smaller half as large, 

 dark above, glaucous beneath, finely reticulate especially 

 beneath : fruiting pedicels stout, V^ inch long, calyx in fruit 

 yi inch long, cleft below the middle, the segments subulate, 

 very acute : pod ligneous, orbicular, so little compressed as to 

 be nearly globose, little more than Vi inch long and broad, 

 ferruginous-silky, its stipe about equalling the calyx. 



Specimen in fruit only, collected at Ruston, lyouisiana, July, 

 1899, by Reginald S. Cocks, the label indicating that it was 



