206 
DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
Wild Sensitive-plant. 
A smaller species than No. 2, with very small flowers. Out 
of flower and fruit they may be mistaken for each othei’. 
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. (^Legiiminosae.') 
Calix half 4 or 5-cleft;, bilabiate. Corolla 
papilionaceous^ petals nearly equal in 
length ; vexillum laterally reflected. Sta- 
mina deciduous. Legume ventricosc;, pe- 
dicellate^ many-seeded. — Brown. Hort. 
Kew. 3. p. 5. 
tinctoria. 1. B. Very glabroiis, and much branched, small- 
leaved ; leaves ternate, subsessile, folioles 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., Lamark, 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-green. Flowers 
fine 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. {Leguminos(s.) 
Calix 5-toothed, the lower part gibbous. Co- 
rolla papilionaceous, lateral petals or 
wings larger than the vexillum; carina 
dipetalous. Legume compressed. Semi- 
