Flora Medica

FABACEvE, OR LEGUMINOS^E.Nat. syst.ed. 2. p. 148.Tribe I.PAPILIONACE^E.ANAGYRIS.Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, slightly 2-lipped. Stamens 10,distinct. Vexillum and wings snorter than the dipetalous longcarina.Legume shortly stipitate, compressed, many-seeded,2-valved, irregularly interrupted by contractions. Shrubs, withternate leaves. Stipules united into a single one opposite theleaf. Flowers yellow in short racemes.482. A. fcetida Linn. sp. 534-. Lodd. bot. cab. t. 740. Sibth.ft. grcec. iv. 59. t. 366. Gusson.fl. sic. i. 477. ii.DC.prodr. 99.Calcareous hills and rocks in the southern parts of Europe,common.A large bush. Leaflets lanceolate-elliptical, rather blunt, with avery short mucro. Standard spotted, streaked beneath. Legumescurved, variously bent, or straight, acuminate, containing from 2 to 7seeds. Seeds reniform, violet. Gussone. Seeds said to be poisonouslike those of Cytisus Laburnum.BAPTISIA.Calyx half 4-5-cleft, 2-lipped. Petals 5, nearly equal; thestandard bent back at the sides. Stamens 10, distinct, deciduous.Legume ventricose, pedicellate, many-seeded. NorthAmerican herbaceous plants. Flowers racemose. DC.483. B. tinctoria RBr. in hort. Kew. iii. 5. Elliott. \. 467.Torreyfl. i. 441. DC.prodr. ii. 100. Podalyria tinctoria Willd.ii. 503. Bot. Mag. t. 1099. Sophora tinctoria Linn, sp.pl.534 Common in open sandy woods in the United States.Root perennial. Stem 2-3 feet high, very much branched, somewhatglaucous. Leaves alternate ;common petiole scarcely a line long,without stipules at the base; leaflets about J of an inch long, roundedat the extremity, cuneate at the base; stipules minute, deciduous.Flowers in a loose terminal spike or raceme ; pedicels articulated atthe base. Calyx subcampanulate, -i cleft the ; upper segment broader.Corolla bright yellow ;vexillum roundish, crenulate, reflexed on thesides ; wings obovate ;keel of 2obovate petals slightly united. Stamensnearly equal, as long as the keel; filaments slender, smooth; anthers237