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liirsute. A well known garden flower, native of Sicily. The flowers appear 

 in June, are large, variegated with red and white. Very fragrant. Ann. 



Sweel Pea. 



8. L. SATi'VUS. 



Peduncles l-Roweied; tendrils 2 — 4-leaved ; ;?oJs ovate, compiessed, with 

 two edoes at the back. Native of S. Europe, where it has been sometimes 

 cultivated for food ; but it proved to be a slow poison, both to man and beast, 

 producing ultimately entire helplessness, by rendering the limbs rigid, but 

 without pain. Ann. Cluck Pea. 



9. L. Cly'imenum. 



Pednncles 2-flowered ; tendrils many-leaved ; leaflets lanceolate ; stipules 

 toothed. Native of Levant. Ann. Various-floieered Pea. 



2. V I' C I A . 



Calyx with 3 inferior segments, straight, and longer than 

 the 2 above; vexillum emarginate; style transversely beard- 

 ed beneath the stigma. 



Celtic gicig, whence, Gr. /Stx-ioy. Lat. vicia, Fr. Tcsce., Eng. vetch. Cor. 

 of 5 petals, vex. largest, oval, ascending, alee oblong, approx., carina flattened, 

 of 2 united petals with separate claws. Fil. 10, 4 united into a compressed 

 tube, open at the upper edge, the others hair-like, separate. Stig. obtuse, 

 with a tuft of hairs in front, below the summit.— Mostly climbing herbs. Leaf- 

 lets several pairs. Petioles produced into branching tendrils. Peduncles 

 axillary. 



1. V. AmERICA'NA. Muh. 



Smooth; peduncles 4— S-flowered, shorter than the leaves; stipules semi- 

 sagittate, deeply dentate; lenflets 10—14, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, mucro- 

 nale, veined, somewhat alternate ; legumes oblong-linear, compressed, reticu- 

 lated. Stems slender, 1 — 3 feet long. Flowers blue or purple. Lower calyx 

 teeth broad-lanceolate, much longer than the 2 upper. Style very hairy at 

 the summit. May. jimerican Vetch. 



2. V. Carolinia'na. IValt. 



Pednncles many-flowered ; flotcers distant ; teeth of the calyx shorter than 

 the tube, the two upper very short; style hairy at the summit; letifcts 8^2, 

 linear-oblong, smootliish ; legumes not reticulated, oblong. Woods and river 

 banks. A slender climber, "4 — G feet long. Flowers pale blue, the banner 

 tipped with deep purple. May. Per. Carolinian Vetch. 



3. V. TETRASPF/RMA. Loisel. V. pusilla. Mh. 



Peduncles about 2-flowered ; calyx teeth lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; 

 legume smooth, 4-sceded ; lenflcls 4— (i, small, linear ; stipules lanceolate, semi 

 sagittate. Slender and delicate plants, growing on banks of streams, Slc. 

 Flowers very small, bluish white. Legumes about 5-seeded. Jl. Ann. 



Slender Vetch. 



4. V. sati'va. 



Flowers 2, subsessile ; stipules toothed, dotted ; leaflets oblong-ovate, refuse, 

 mucronate ; legumes erect, roundish, smooth. A slender, climbing plant. 



