428 LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. 



GLEDITSCHIA MONOSPERMA, Walt-- (Swamp Loeusi). 



With less and simple thorns, and small, oval, one seeded, and pulpless 

 pods, is a small tree, growing in the Mississippi bottoms, never seen by 

 me in the Middle and Eastern parts of the State. 



GYMNOCLADUS CANADENSIS, Lam -(Coffee Tree.) 



Leaves 3 feet long, with several large, partial leafstalks, bearing 7-13 

 ovate, stalked leaflets, pod 6-10 inches long, 2 inches broad, the seed 

 over J inch across. This is one of the noblest forest trees, timber val- 

 uable. It ought to be planted in parks, and at road sides. 



CASSIA MABILANDICA, Ii~ (American Senna.) 



Perennial herb with simple pinnate leaves, showy; yellow flowers in 

 axillary raceme, the upper ones panicled. Leaflets 6-9 pairs, lanceolate 

 oblong obtuse; petiole with a globe-shaped gland near the base; pods 

 linear, slightly curved. Leaves used as a substitute for the officinal 



senna. 



CASSIA OBTUSIEOLIA, L-( Wild Senna). 



Annual; leaflets 3 or rarely 2 pairs, obovate, obtuse, with an elonga- 

 ted gland between those of the lower pairs or lowest pair, pods slender, 

 6 inches long, curved. Common on river banks and in waste places. No 

 use. Not touched by stock. 



CASSIA CHAM-EJCRISTA, L-Partridge Pea 



Leaflets small, 10-15 pairs, linear, oblong, oblique at the base, flowers 

 large, on slender petioles, anthers 10, elongated, unequal; 4 of them 

 1 ellow, the others purple, style slender. Sandy fields, common. Some- 

 times eaten by cattle. 



CASSIA NICTITANS, L,-( Wild Sensitive Plant). 



Like the former sensitive to the touch, especially so in hot « < ather. 

 Leaflets 10-20 pairs oblong, linear, flowers small, on veiy short pedi- 

 cels, anthers 5, nearly equal with the former. Of no utility. 



ACACIA JULIBRISSIM, L- 



Is a fine ornamental tree of the Mimosa family, the third Suborder 

 of the Leguminosse, (Cercis, Cassia, Gymnocladus, Gleditschia, belong 

 to the second suborder, or Csesalpsinese). The Mimosas have regular 

 flowers, corolla valvato in aestivation, stamens often very numerous. 

 Leaves twice pinnate. A large' tree of this kind of about 30 feet high 

 and nearly 1 foot in diameter, demonstrating sufficiently its adajita- 



