longstipitate pubescent." Dr. Green writes that "the plant is evidently 

 much branched with solitary flowers in the axils of the upper leaves:" 

 Dr. Small, that the plant is "branching with flowers in terminal 

 racemes. ' ' Both forms of inflorescence are often found on different 

 branches of the same plant. The same remark also applies to the descrip- 

 tion of the pod. Both of them might have added that the beak is often 

 fully as long as the pod. 

 Eaptisia Isevicaulis (A. Gray) small. 

 Small Flora, p. 601. 

 April. 



Distribution: — Louisiana and Texas. 



Louisiana: — Fine barrens, Tangipahoa and St. Tammany. 

 Eaptisia leucophoea Nutt. 



•Small Flora, p. 601; Britton and Browne 111. Flora, vol. II, figure 

 No. 2052. 

 April. 



Distribution: — Michigan to Minnesota; Louisiana to Texas. 

 Louisiana: — prairies; Caddo and Calcasieu. 

 Eaptisia australis (L.) R. Br. 



This species occurs in Louisiana, according to Alphonso Wood's 

 Class-Book, p. 302. No specimens' have been seen by the writer. 

 Eaptisia oxyphylla Greene n. sp in Mss. 



Distribution: — Louisiana; Pearl River; dry, cleared soil along the 

 railroad track. 



Appended is Dr. Greene's description, Leaflet, Vol. II, p. 69, May, 

 1910: Main stem not known, but branches glabrous, wiry, beset closely 

 with sessile trifoliolate leaves subtended by spreading conspicuous and 

 persistent stipules; leaflets 1% inches long, rhomboid, cuneately taper- 

 ing from below the middle, very acute at apex and ending in an almost 

 spinescent sharp niucro, glabrous and finely reticulate on both faces, but 

 the margins obscurely pilose; stipules more than one-half inch long, 

 spinescently acuminate above an ovate-lanceolate body; raceme probably 

 solitary, large as that of B. leucophaea, conspicuously bracted, the 

 bracts lance-ovate; calyx-segments exceeding the tube, triangular-subu- 

 late, very acute, piloseciliate: immature pod oval, long-pointed, pubescent. 

 Remarkable ally of B. leucophaea, found on Pearl River, south- 

 eastern Louisiana, in October, 1910, by Mr. Reginald S. Cocks. The 

 rhombic leaflets and large stipules are so rigid, and end so sharply, as to 

 make the plant appear almost spinescent (page 84) ; also the stipules 

 spread away almost divaricately from the stem, instead of being erect 

 and appressed to the stem as in other stipulate species. 



CROTALARIA Dill. L. Rattle box. 



Crctalaria rotundifolia (Walt) Pursh. 



Crotalaria ovalis Pursh. 



Chapman Flora, p. 96; Small Flora, p. 602; Britton and Browne 111. 

 Flora, vol. II, p. 288, Figure 2056. 



April. 



Distribution: — Virginia to Florida; Mississippi and Louisiana. 



Louisiana: — Dry pine woods; Tangipahoa. 

 Crotalaria purshii D. C. 



Chapman Flora, p. 96; Small Flora, p. 602. 



April. 



Distribution: — Georgia, Florida to Louisiana. 



Louisiana: — Dry pine lands, Tangipahoa and St. Tammany. 



