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stipules narrowly linear, usually auriculate and sometimes toothed ; leaflets 12-14, narrowly linear 

 to linear-oblong, truncate, often notched, mucronate, sparsely pubescent or glabrous ; peduncles 

 slender, about half the length of the leaves, 2-6-flowered; corolla nearly white with a tinge of 

 pale blue-purple, 3 mm. long ; pod oblong, 6-9 mm. long, hirsute-pubescent, 2-seeded. 



Roadsides, western Washington and Oregon, naturalized from Europe. June-July. Tine Tare. 



4. Vicia tetrasperma (L.) Moench. Slender Vetch or Tare. Fig. 2929. 



Ervum tetraspermum L. Sp. PI. 738. 1753. 

 Vicia tetrasperma Moench, Meth. 148. 1794. 



Annual, nearly or quite glabrous, stems slender, weak, 1 . 5-5 dm. long. Leaves shortypetioled ; 

 stipules linear; leaflets 6—12, linear to linear-oblong, 12-18 mm. long, obtuse or acutish, thin; 

 peduncles filiform, equaling or shorter than the leaves, 1-6-flowered; flowers light purple, 4-6 

 mm. long ; pod 8-12 mm. long, glabrous, 3-6-seeded. 



Meadows and roadsides, Humid Transition Zone; Portland and Willamette Valley, Oregon, to Humboldt 

 County, California; naturalized from Europe. May-July. 



5. Vicia exigua Nutt. Slender Vetch. Fig. 2930. 



Vicia exigua Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1 : 272. 1838. 



Annual, the stems slender, erect or ascending, usually branching below the base, 3-7 dm. high, 

 glabrous. Leaves rather distant, with slender rachis, well prolonged beyond the leaflets ; stipules 

 semisagittate, entire; leaflets 2-4 pairs, linear to narrowly linear, 1-2.5 cm. long, usually rounded 

 at apex but varying from obtuse to rarely emarginate, minutely and very sparsely strigose be- 



2916 



2918 



2915. Oxytropis oreophila 



2916. Oxytropis Cusickii 



2919 



2917. Oxytropis luteola 



2918. Oxytropis viscida 



2917 



2920 



2919. Oxytropis deflexa 



2920. Glycyrrhiza lepidota 



