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sides, flowers axillary and subracemose bracts 
lanceolate — in Carolina, Florida and Alabama, 
leaves 2 or 3 inches long, flowers vernal dark 
yellow. 
330. Lasinia fitly a Raf. branches terete 
and pubescent, stipules obsolete, leaves and fo- 
lioles sessile, smooth oblong elliptic base acute, 
end obtuse retuse, minutely nervose reticulate 
on both sides, flowers chiefly axillary, some 
racemose, bracts oblong hairy calix pubescent 
pistil and pod fulvous very hairy. — -Tennessee 
and Arkanzas, leaves uncial, flowers small of a 
dull fulvous yellow. A very distinct sp. proba- 
bly blended among B. viilosa which includes 
several sp. according to Elliott. 
331. Lasinia BicoLon Raf. (or grandifolia) 
stem dichotome pubescent, leaves petiolate, sti- 
pules linear, folioles sessile obovate or elliptical 
base acute, end obtuse or emarginate, margin 
ciliate, pubescent beneath, reticulate above, ra- 
cemes short ovate pauciflore — in Arkanzas 
and Texas, beautiful striking sp. leaves larger 
than in any other about 3 inches long, stipules 
petiols and calix pubescent, racemes with 8 or 
10 flowers crowded large of a dull yellow with 
a large purplish spot at the base of the vexilhim 
nearest to B . mollis of Mx. but very different 
from the next. 
332. Lasinia fallens Raf. stem sulcata 
nearly smooth, pubescent above, stipules lan- 
ceolate, leaves sessile, folioles sessile oblong 
cuneate obtuse emarginate pubescent beneath, 
racemes oblong pauciflore, calix acute— Alaba- 
ma and Apalachian mts. leaves biuncial, ra- 
ceme triuncial of 10 or 12 large flowers of a 
dull yellow. Still nearer L. mollis , teeth of ca- 
lix acute as in it, but very little hairy and not 
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