124 MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Wild indigo, Baptisia tinctoria. A much-branched perennial herb 

 with trifoliate leaves and medium size yellow flowers. Very com- 

 mon in dry woods of eastern Maryland, and in adjoining States. The 

 herbage, rich in blue dye stuff was formerly used for making- indigo ; 

 the young shoots have been used as asparagus, and the plant is now 

 sometimes utilized by teamsters in the country for keeping flies from 

 the horses's heads. (Plate I. Figures I and 2). 



Cracca, Cracca spicata. A small, straggling perennial herb with 

 pinnate leaves and covered with brown hairs ; the few flowers pur- 

 plish. This is a plant of the southern States, seen rarely on Eastern 

 Shore. (Plate I. Figure 7). 



Cat-gut, Cracca Virgtniana. A stiff, somewhat shrub-like peren- 

 nial plant, one to two feet high, with grayish, pinnate leaves and a clus- 

 ter of yellowish-purple flowers. One of the most common plants in 

 our dry upland woods, especially in sandy lands and occurs all over the 

 Eastern United States ; probably not so common on the Eastern Shore, 

 as it is not represented in our collections from that section. (Plate I. 

 Figure 8). 



Pencil-flower, Stylosanthes biflora. A low, wiry-stemmed plant 

 resembling Japan clover but with yellow bristles on the foliage which 

 surrounds the flowers. Eastern United States south of New York, in 

 dry soil. Frequent in the dry, open woods of central and southern Mary- 

 land, not seen on the Eastern Shore nor in the mountains. (Plate I. 

 Figure 9). 



American wistaria, Bradley a frutescens. A large woody vine 

 with clusters of large purple flowers. Low ground in the Southern 

 States, reported from Cumberland, Md. 



Albizzia Julibrizzan. A tropical tree, sometimes called mimosa 

 here, which is grown in Southern Maryland for ornament and occa- 

 sionally seeds itself in warm, sandy Eastern Shore lands. The wood is 

 useful and the aromatic leaves have been used for tea. 



The following legumes have not been found in Maryland but occur 

 in adjoining states: Trifolium Carolinianum, Meibomia Canadensis, 

 Lespedeza angustifolia, Lathyms niyrtifolius, Galactia regularis, Ulex 

 Europeans, Cytisus scoparius. 



