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JO, Vicia.Le Vetch. 
Herbaceous vines with alternate usually conspicuous tendril-bearing 
leaves, the tendril sometimes reduced to a small appendage. Flowers in 
axillary racemes, or solitarye Calyx 5-lobed, the lobes unequal, the 
lower longer, the tube gibbous at the base, Stamens 10, the uppermost 
free, the lower nine unitedg style slender, bearing a tufted ring of hairs 
at the summit. Pod dehiscent by 2 valvese 
Ve sativa 
o Flowers solitary or — axillary l. 
c Flowers in racemes 
dD. Ve cracca 
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P Racemes with 15-25 or more flowers 
3 V_. americana 
» Recemes with 5-12 flowers 
1. Ve. sativa Le Svems slender, erect, 30-40 cm, tall or more; leaflets 
6-12, oblong; flowers solitary or in pairs in the axils; corolla about 2 
cm, long; pods 50 Cie lone 
To be expected as en occasional weed; naturalized from Europee 
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