An illustrated flora of the 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 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 3. THERMOPSIS R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3: 3. 1811. Perennial branching herbs, with sheathing scales at the base, alternate 3-foliolate leaves, and large yellow or purple flowers in terminal or axillary racemes. Stipules usually large and foliaceous. Calyx campanulate or short-turbinate, its lobes equal and s
An illustrated flora of the 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 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 3. THERMOPSIS R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 3: 3. 1811. Perennial branching herbs, with sheathing scales at the base, alternate 3-foliolate leaves, and large yellow or purple flowers in terminal or axillary racemes. Stipules usually large and foliaceous. Calyx campanulate or short-turbinate, its lobes equal and separate, or the two upper ones united. Standard nearly orbicular, equalling the oblong wings and about equalling the keel. Stamens 10. incurved, separate. Ovary sessile or short-stipitate; ovules <» ; style slightly incurved; stigma terminal, small. Pod sessile or short-stalked, flat (in our species), linear or oblong, straight or curved. [Greek, Lupine-like.] About 20 species, natives of North .iKmerica and northern and eastern Asia. Besides the follow- ing, some 10 others occur in the southern .'Mleghanies and in the western part of the continent. Type species: Thermopsis lauceolata (Willd.) R. Br. Leaflets i'-3' long : panicle elongated, usually long-peduncled ; eastern. i. T. mollis. Leaflets 'A'-i'A' long; panicle short, short-peduncled ; western. 2. I. Thermopsis mollis (Michx.) M. A. Curtis. Alleghany Thermopsis. Fig. 2451. Podalyria mollis Fl. Bor. Am. i : 264. 1803. Baptisia mollis DC. Prodr. 2: 100. 1825. Thermopsis mollis M. .\. Curtis ; A. Gray, Chlor. Bor. .\ni. 47. pl. 9- r846. Erect, somewhat divaricately branched, 2°-3° high, finely appressed-pubescent. Leaves petioled, 3-foIiolate; leaflets^ oval, rhombic-elliptic or obovate, entire, 1-3' long, 9'-i5' wide, obtuse or acute, nearly sessile; stipules ovate or lanceolate, shorter than the petiole; racemes 6'-io' long, mainly terminal; pedicels 2'-6' long, bracted at the base: flowers v
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