PEA FAMILY 



Stem. — Two to three feet long, smooth, four-square. 



Leaves. — Alternate, short-petioled, three to four inches 

 long, pinnately compound, terminating in a long undivided 

 tendril; leaflets ten to twenty, alternate, linear, oval, 



Carolina Vetch. Vicia Carolinidna 



oblong and elliptical, obtuse or emarginate, sometimes 

 acute and mucronate, five-eighths to three-fourths of an 

 inch long. 



Stipules. — Linear or oblong, entire, a fourth of an inch 

 in length. 



Floivers. — Papilionaceous, white, keel tipped with blue, 

 half an inch long, borne in eight to twenty-flowered ra- 

 cemes, which appear in the axils of the leaves. 



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