. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. FABACEAE. Vol. II. 5. Baptisia alba (L.) R. Br. White Wild Indigo. Fig. 2457. Crotalaria alba L. Sp. PI. 716. 1753. Baptisia alba R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3 : 6. 1811. Glabrous throughout, divergently branching, i°-3° high. Leaves petioled, 3-foliolate; petioles slender, 3"-9" long; leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, obtuse
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. FABACEAE. Vol. II. 5. Baptisia alba (L.) R. Br. White Wild Indigo. Fig. 2457. Crotalaria alba L. Sp. PI. 716. 1753. Baptisia alba R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3 : 6. 1811. Glabrous throughout, divergently branching, i°-3° high. Leaves petioled, 3-foliolate; petioles slender, 3"-9" long; leaflets oblong or oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, obtuse at the apex, I'-iJ' long, 4"-6" viride, rather thin, green in drying; stipules and bracts minute, subulate, early deciduous; racemes elongated, erect, 6'-io' long, lateral, long-peduncled; pedicels 3"-8" long; flowers white, 6"-y" long; pod linear-oblong, about i¥ long, 4" thick, short-stalked in the calyx, abruptly tipped with an almost filiform deciduous style. In dry soil, North Carolina to Florida. Recorded from Ivfissouri and southern Indiana, but we have seen no speci- mens collected west or north of the South Atlantic States. Erroneously recorded from Minnesota and Ontario. May- June. Prairie-indigo. 6. Baptisia leucantha T. & G. Large White Wild Indigo. Fig. 2458. Baptisia leucantha T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 385. 1840. Glabrous throughout, succulent, branching, 2°-4° high, the branches stout, ascending. Leaves petioled, 3-foliolate, blackening in dry- ing; leaflets obovate or oblanceolate, i'-2' long, 6"-i2" wide, very obtuse, rounded and some- times slightly emarginate at the apex, nar- rowed or cuneate at the base; stipules lanceo- late or linear, equalling or shorter than the petioles, deciduous ; racemes' lateral, sometimes 1° long, loosely flowered ; flowers white, g"-\o" long; pedicels 2"-3" long; pod ellipsoid, long- stalked in the calyx, about 9" long, tipped with the subulate style
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