VETCH FAMILY. 577 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower Metamorphic hills. Central Prairie region, 
limestone hills. Lee County, Auburn (Saker §° Earle, 134). Wileox County 
(Buckley). Flowers pearl blue, April. Rare. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘ Prairies and woods of Arkansas, Nuttall! Louisiana and Texas, 
Dr. Leavenworth! on the Red River, Dr. Hale!” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
Vicia caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 182. 1788. WHITE-FLOWERED VETCH. 
Vicia parviflora Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 2:69. 18038. 
KU. Sk.2:224, Gray, Man, ed. 6, 143. Chap. FI. 98. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, Ontario; New York west to Minnesota, Mis- 
souri, and Arkansas, south from New York to western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, 
and Georgia. 
ALABAMA; Mountain region to Coast plain, Cullman County, 800 feet. Winston 
and Blount counties. Tuscaloosa County (22.1. smith). Mobile County, Chunchula. 
Flowers white; April. Not infrequent. Perennial. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vicia ludoviciana Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, F1.N.A.1:271. 1840. 
LovuIsIANA VETCH. DEER PEA. 
Chap. Fl. Suppl. 616; ed.3, 107. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 87. 
Louisianian area, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low grassy places. Rich damp soil. Mobile County, 
West Fowl River. Flowers azure; April. Not frequent. Annual, 
Type locality: “Grassy places on the Red River, and in Texas, Dr. Learenworth! 
‘In Louisiana, Mr. Tainturier,’ Nuttall.” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb. Molir. 
Vicia hugeri Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 24:490. 1897. HuGrEr’s VETCH. 
Slender, bright green, minutely pubescent or glabrate in age; ascending- 
decumbent, more or less angled; leaves 2 to 24 inches long, short-petioled, leatlets 
10 to 12, linear, 4 to J inch long, with short petiolules; peduncles 2 to 3 inches long 
in secund racemes, 10 to 14 flowered; flowers small, white or pinkish, scarcely + inch 
long, calyx teeth triangular about 4 as long as the tube, pods linear-oblong, } inch 
long. 
Carolinian area. Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Open woods. Lee County, Auburn, March, April, 
1896, 1897 ( Underwood 4) Furle). 
Type locality: “In open woods, Georgia and Alabama,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vicia tetrasperma (L.) Moench, Meth. 148. 1794. WILp LENTIL. 
Errum tetraspermum L. Sp. P1.2: 738. 1753. 
EUROPE, 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile, May, 1879; not found since. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. inter Europae segetes.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vicia hirsuta (l..) Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv. 191.0 1857, WARY VreTCH. 
Ervum hirsutum L. Sp, Pl. 2: 738. 1753. 
Vicia mitchellii Raf. Prec. Decouy. 37, 1814. 
EUROPE. 
Carolinian area. Naturalized coast of New England to New Jersey. Annual. 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile, 1869. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Kuropae agris.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vicia sativa L. Sp. Pl. 2:736. 1753. COMMON VETCH, 
Ell. Sk. 2:224. Gray, Man. ed.6, 143. Chap. F1. 18. 
EUROPE. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Introduced and cseaped from cultivation, 
Naturalized in many localities from New England to the Gulf. 
ALABAMA: Fully established locally. Borders of fields, waste and cultivated 
places. Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, and Mobile counties, Flowers March, April. 
Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Hab. inter Europae segetes hodic.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
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