DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
£05 
npon longer and incurved filaments. Le- 
gume membranaceous^, 2-valved. — J\T utt. 
1. C. nearly glabrous ; leaves in 8-pair, lanceo- Mariiandica, 
late-oblong, mucronate, nearly equal ; gland on 
the petiole obovate ; racemes axillary, and pa- 
niculate-terminal ; legumens linear, curved, 
smooth. — Willd, and Pursh. 
Icon. Bart. Veg. Mat. Med. U. S. vol. 1. t. 
i 1£. 
Wild Senna, American Senna. 
A very elegant plant, from three to four feet high, bearing 
a profusion of orange -coloured flowers. The dried leaves and 
follicles are equal, in medicinal virtue, to the common senna 
of the shops. (See Veg. Mat. Med. U. S.) In sandy wet 
ground, near the borders of all our rivers and creeks ; very 
abundant. Perennial. July, August. 
£. C. nearly smooth ; leaves in many pairs, linear, chamsechns- 
gland of the petiole subpedicellate ; flowers 
nearly in pairs; pedicels long, two petals, spot- 
ted; legumens pubescent.— and Pursh. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 107. 
Dwarf Cassia. Partridge. Acoumack-pea. 
A very superb species, from one foot to eighteen inches 
high. Flowers twice as large as those of No. 1, and deep-yel- 
low. On the borders of cultivated grounds, not uncommon. 
Near a copse in the Neck, half a mile from Federal and Se- 
cond streets, in great profusion, and very large. Annual. Ju- 
ly, August. 
S. C. spreading; leaves in many pairs, linear, nictitans, 
gland of the petiole pedicellate ; peduncles clus- 
tered, few-flowered above the axills, flowers pen- 
tandrous ; stamens equal. — Willd. and Elliot. 
Icon. Pluk. alm.t. 314. f. 5. 
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