. 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. 332 MIMOSACEAE. Vol. I. Acuan leptoloba (T. & G.) Kuntze. Prairie Mimosa. Fig. 2431. Desmanthus leptolobus T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 402. 1840. Acuan leptoloba Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 158. 1891. Herbaceous, ascending, branched, stems rough- angled, 2°-3° long. Leaves short-petioled, bipinnate; pinnae 5-10 pairs, sessile; leaflets 10-24 pairs, sessile, li
. 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. 332 MIMOSACEAE. Vol. I. Acuan leptoloba (T. & G.) Kuntze. Prairie Mimosa. Fig. 2431. Desmanthus leptolobus T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 402. 1840. Acuan leptoloba Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 158. 1891. Herbaceous, ascending, branched, stems rough- angled, 2°-3° long. Leaves short-petioled, bipinnate; pinnae 5-10 pairs, sessile; leaflets 10-24 pairs, sessile, linear-lanceolate, acute, inequilateral, rounded at the base, usually glabrous, ii"-2" long, i" wide or less; peduncles 6"-i2" long, few-flowered; stamens (always?) 5; pods 3-8, narrowly linear, acuminate, nearly straight, glabrous, about 3 times the length of the peduncle, 6-8-seeded. Prairies, Kansas to Texas. Summer. 2. Acuan illinoensis (Michx.) Kuntze. Illinois Mimosa. Fig. 2432. Mimosa illinoensis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 254. 1803. Acacia brachyloba Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1071. 1806. Desmanthus brachylobus Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 4 : 358. 1842. A. illinoensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 158. 1891. Ascending or erect, glabrous or nearly so, stems angled, l°-3° high. Foliage resembling that of the preceding species, but the pinnae and obtusish leaflets are sometimes more numerous; peduncles i'-2' long; pods nu- merous, densely capitate, oblong or lanceo- late, strongly curved, 8"-i2" long, acute, slightly impressed between the 2-5 seeds. Prairies and river-banks, Ohio to Kentucky, Florida, South Dakota, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico. Illinois acacia. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New
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