270 LEGUMINOS^. Vicia. 



Canada! (as far north as Bear Lake) to the Western part of New- York ! 

 and west to the Rocky Mountains! P. Sa'^katchawan, &c. Hooker! Mis- 

 souri!— 2/ Stem 1-3 feet long. Leaflets 8-14 lines long : tendrils 3- many- 

 parted. Flowers about three-fourths of an inch long, purplish-blue. Upper 

 teeth of the calyx very short. — Very near V, sylvatica. 



J. 2. V. Oregana (Nutt.! mss.) : "pubescent; stem weak; leaflets 4-8 

 pairs, elliptical-oblong, somewhat serrate at the summit, cuspidate, rarely 

 emarginate; stipules lunate, semisagittate, incisely serrate ; peduncles 3-5- 

 flowered, rather shorter than the leaves ; teeth of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, the 2 upper nearly as long as the lateral ones ; style shghtly pubes- 

 cent ; legume broadly sabre-shaped, glabrous, about 5-seeded. 



"Plains of the Oregon.— y Stem 1-2 feet long, angular. Leaflets about 

 I of an inch long : tendrils many-parted. Flowers one-third smaller than in 

 the preceding species." Nuttall. 



-' 3. V. truncata (Nutt.! mss.): " somewhat pubescent; leaflets 5-6 pairs, 

 oblong-linear, usually truncate, serrate or tridentate at the apex; stipules lu- 

 nate, incisely serrate ; peduncles 4-7-flowered, rather shorter than the leaves; 

 lower teeth of the calyx lanceolate, acuminate, the upper ones very short ; 

 style very villous at the apex. 



Plains of the Oregon. June.— 2| Stem 1-2 feet high, weak. Leaflets 

 about an inch long, 1-2 lines wide ; theloAvest ones simply acute and apicu- 

 late; the upper ones strongly serrate or toothed at the apex'." Nuttall. 



4. V. sparsifolia (Nutt.! mss.): slightly pubescent; leaflets 5-6 pairs, 

 narrowly linear, nearly acute, mucronulate ; stipules bifid, entire, or sparingly 

 toothed ; peduncles 4-7-flowered, about as long as the leaves ; lower teeth of 

 the calyx acuminate; upper ones much shorter; style very villous at the sum- 

 mit. 



" Plains of the Oregon, with the preceding ; to which it is very nearly al- 

 lied." Nuttall. y ^ : . 3 



5. V. gigantea (Hook.) : somewhat pubescent ; stem sulcate ; leaflets 

 10-13 pairs, oblong, petiolulate, obtuse, mucronate; stipules large, semisagit- 

 tate, deeply toothed at the base ; peduncles much shorter than the leaves, 

 5-18-flowered, the flowers crowded ; lower teeth of the calyx long and nar- 

 row ; style slightly bearded ; legume broadly oblong, glabrous, obscurely re- 

 ticulated.— i/ooA'. .' fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 157. V. Sitchensis, Bong. ! veg. 

 Sitcha, in mem. acad. St. Petersb. (6. ser.) 2. p. 129. 



Woods of the Oregon, ^cozi/er .' Nuttall! Sitcha, Bongard !—li Stem 

 stout, long and trailing. Leaves 6-9 inches long: leaflets 1-2 inches in length. 

 Flowers nearly as large as in V. Americana, pale dull purple. Legumes 

 about 2i inches long. Seeds as large as small peas, tolerably good eating 

 when young. — Plant blackish when dry. 



.^- 6. V. Cracca (Linn.): stem branching; leaflets numerous (20-24), ob- 

 long, minutely pubescent, mucronate ; stipules lanceolate-linear, semisagit- 

 tate ; peduncles many-flowered, about as long as the leaves, flowers crowded, 

 retrorsely imbricated ; teeth of the calyx shorter than the tube, the upper 

 ones very short ; style hairy at the summit ; legume oblong, coriaceous, reti- 

 culated, glabrous ; seeds globose, black.— Mic/ivr. .' fl. 2. p. 69 ; Picrsh, fl. 

 1. p. 472 ; DC. prodr. 2. p. 357 ; Bigel. Jl. Bost. p. 269; Hook. fl. Bor.- 

 Am. 1. p. 157. 



Borders of woods, &c. Canada ! to Pennsylvania ! west to Kentucky I— 

 AprQ-June.— 1( Stem 2-3 feet long. Leaflets 6-8 lines in length. 'Ra- 

 cemes 12-30-flowered. Flowers nearly half an inch in length, usually bright 

 blue, but sometimes rather pale. Legume about an inch long, 4-6-seeded. — 

 Agrees in every respect with the European plant. 



