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Descriptive Flora 



angled, several-seeded, slightly over 1 inch long. March to July. 

 Frequently threading the grass of large lawns and pastures, 

 on well-drained, gravelly hillsides. 



Cracca lindheimeri (A. Gray) Kuntze. Cat-gut. Goat's Rue. 



Scarlet Pea. 



Spreading plant with stout stems, pale white-margined leaf- 

 lets, and bright scarlet to reddish-purple flowers resembling 

 sweet peas. Leaves once-pinnately compound. Leaflets 9-17, 

 oblong to rounded in outline, y 2 to 1*4" long, entire, covered with 

 appressed hairs underneath, and conspicuously white margined. 

 Flowers in twos or threes at intervals on the long stems that 

 branch out of the stem opposite the alternate leaves. Pods 1 to 

 iy 2 " long, flat, velvety, yellowish. April to fall. In sandy soil. 



Sesbania macrooarpa Muhl. 



Tall, widely branched, green-stemmed plants with long, 

 feathery leaves and drooping clusters of yellow, bonnet-shaped 

 flowers and long, slender pods. Leaves pinnately-compound, 4 

 to 16 inches long, alternate. Leaflets 15 to 50 pairs, oblong, y 2 

 to iy 2 inches long, mucronate-tipped. Flowers flattened, pea- 

 shaped, with a brownish-yellow broad petal folded over the 

 lateral yellow ones, and the two lower petals united forming a 

 purplish or red-tipped keel. Pods slender, 6 to 10 inches long, 

 drooping. July to fall. Growing close to ' 1 tanks ' ' and streams. 

 Distinguished from the Rattlebush (Daubentonia longifolia) by 

 the more numerous leaflets, flowers not a clear yellow, and pods 

 longer, more slender and not winged. 



Daubentonia longifolia (Cav.) DC. Rattle-box. Rattle-bush. 



Water-loving shrub with a decidedly disagreeable odor and 

 hanging clusters of bright, yellow, bonnet-shaped, showy flowers. 

 Leaves pinnately compound, alternate. Leaflets 12 to 60. Pods 

 4-sided, 4-winged, 2 to 3 inches long. Along banks of ditches, 

 creeks and lakes, often thriving for years in water knee deep. 



