Chamaecrista nictitans var. aspera (Elliott) Torr. & A. Gray

Chamaecrista aspera (Muhl.) Greene, Pittonia 3: 243. 1897
Cassia aspera Muhl.; Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1 : 474. 1821. Nictilella aspera Raf. Sylva Tell. 128. 1838.
Annual; stem branched, erect, strigose-hirsute, and puberulent with shorter hairs, 3-7 dm. high. Stipules lanceolate, long-acuminate, ciUate, 7-11 mm. long; petiolar gland stalked, truncate, small, only 0.4 mm. broad or less; leaflets 15-27 pairs, linear-oblong, 8-15 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, mucronate, glabrous and eciliate, obscurely veined; pedicels 1-3, puberulent, 3-4 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, strigose-hirsute along the midvein, 3-5 mm. long; petals unequal, 3-7 mm. long; stamens 7-9; legume linear, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, hirsute.
Type locality: Eding's Island, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Distribution: South Carolina to Florida; Cuba.