206 DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



Wild Sensitive-plant. 



A smaller species than No. 2, with very small flowers. Out 

 of flower and fruits the)' may be mistaken for each other. 

 Flowers yellow. The leaves are somewhat sensitive . On sandy 

 and barren road sides, and on the borders of sandy fields; very 

 common. Annual. June to August. 



204. BAPTISIA. Ventenat. R.Brown. (Leguminosoe.) 



Calix half 4 or 5 -cleft, bilabiate. Corolla 

 papilionaceous, petals nearly equal in 

 length ; vexillum laterally reflected. Sta- 

 mina deciduous. Legume ventricose, pe- 

 dicellate, many-seeded. — Brown. Hort. 

 Kew. 3. p. 5. 



tmctoria. l. B. very glabrous, and much branched, small- 

 leaved ; leaves ternate, subsessile, fblioles cune- 

 ate-obovate, round-obtuse; stipules obsolete, 

 oblong-acute, much shorter than the petiole ; ra- 

 cemes spiked, terminal,* legumes ovate, on long 

 footstalks. — Willd. and Pursh. 



Sophora tinctoria, Sp. PI. 534. 



Podalyria tinctoria, Mich., Lam ark, and Willd. 

 Icon. Bot. Mag. 1099. 



Wild Indigo. 



About two or three feet high, very bushy or much branch- 

 ed. Leaves, stem and branches of a blueish-gTeen. Flowers 

 nii2 yellow, very numerous. Possesses medicinal properties. 

 On hills, in dry woods,on the borders of thickets, and in fields; 

 very common. The whole plant is apt to dry black when pre- 

 pared for the herbarium. Perennial. July, August. 



205. CERCIS. Gen. pi 696. (Leguminosa:.) 



Calix 5-toothed, the lower part gibbous. Co- 

 rolla papilionaceous, lateral petals or 

 wings larger than the vexillum; carina 

 dipetalous. Legume compressed. " Semi- 



