Baptisia

( Bot. ) A genus of plants, order Fabacea. The Wild Indigo, B. tinct or i a, found in dry soil in all the States, is a plant with a bluish-green foliage; stem very bushy, about 2 feet high; 6 to 12 or more flowers in each raceme; petals yellow; legume about as large as a pea, on a long stipe, mostly 1-seeded. This plant is used medicinally; the root and herbage being stated to po e antiseptic, sub-astringent, cathartic, and emetic properties. It yields a blue dye, resembling, but inferior to, INDIGO, q. v.