374 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
This is the common bright blue flowered vetch of the timbered mountains every- 
where in the State. The leaf form varies greatly, the leaflets being from broadly 
elliptic to narrowly linear-oblong. The name V. linearis is often applied to the 
plants with very narrow leaflets, but the form does not appear to be constant, and all 
intermediates are found, even in the same locality. 
2. Vicia pulchella H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 499. pl. 583. 1823. 
TyPE Locauity: ‘‘Crescit in declivitate occidentali montium Mexicanorum prope 
Mescala, alt. 265 hex.’’ 
Rance: New Mexico and western Texas to Arizona and Mexico. 
New Mexico: White and Sacramento mountains. Thickets, in the Transition 
Zone. 
3. Vicia melilotoides Woot. & Standl. Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 16:141. 1913. 
Type Locality: Winsors Ranch in the Pecos River National Forest, New Mexico. 
Type collected by Standley (no. 4364). 
Rance: New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Coolidge; Mogollon Mountains ; 
Black Range; White and Sacramento mountains. Moist meadows and thickets, in 
the Transition Zone. 
This has long been confused with V. pulchella, which it closely resembles in general 
appearance. The flowers, however, are white instead of blue as in that species, and 
much more numerous, while the peduncles are shorter and the calyx less pubescent. 
Both species are found in the same region in the White Mountains, where they are at 
once distinguishable in the field. 
4. Vicia leavenworthii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer, 1: 271. 1838. 
Type Locauiry: ‘‘Arkansas.”’ 
Rance: Arkansas and Oklahoma to Texas and New Mexico, in the Upper Sonoran 
Zone. 
New Mexico: Gray (Skehan 88). 
5. Vicia exigua Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 272, 1838. 
TyPE Locauity: ‘‘Plains of the Oregon and Upper California.” 
RANGE: Oregon and California to New Mexico and western Texas. 
New Mexico: Carrizalillo Mountains; Mangas Springs; Lemitar; Organ Mountains; 
Mesilla; Gray; Sierra Grande; Star Peak. Hills and canyons, in the Lower and Upper 
Sonoran zones. 
6. Vicia leucophaea Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 217. 1881. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘Along streams in the higher mountains of southwestern New 
Mexico.”” Type collected by Greene, 
RanaeE: Western New Mexico and adjacent Arizona. 
New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Hanover Mountain. Transition Zone. 
7. Vicia angustifolia Reich. Fl. Moen. Franc. 2: 44, 1778. 
TYPE Locauity: European. 
New Mexico: Chama (Standley 6696). 
Introduced from Europe, but the plants seemed to be at home in a wet meadow 
near Chama. 
8. Vicia caespitosa A. Nels. Bull. Torrey Club 25: 373. 1908. 
TYPE LocALITy: Laramie Plains, Wyoming. 
Rance: Wyoming to New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Clayton; Kingston. Open slopes, in the Upper Sonoran and Tran- 
sition zones. 
