Vor. HJ PEA FAMILY. 327 
4. Vicia Caroliniana Walt. Carolina 
Vetch. (Fig. 2207.) 
Vicia Caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 182. 1788. 
Vicia parviflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 69. 
1803. 
Perennial, glabrous or nearly so, trailing 
or climbing, slender, 2°-3° long. Stipules 
linear or oblong, entire, 2’”-3/’ long; leaves 
short-petioled; leaflets 8-18, oblong or linear- 
oblong, entire obtuse or emarginate, or some- 
times acutish and mucronate, 6’’-10’’ long, 
114//-5// wide; peduncles equalling or shorter 
than the leaves; racemes loosely 8-20-flow- 
ered; flowers nearly white, 4’’-5’’ long, the 
keel bluish-tipped; pod glabrous, 8//-14/’ 
long, short-stalked, 5-S-seeded. 
River-hanks and cliffs, Ontario to Minnesota, 
south to Georgia, Kentucky, and Kansas (accord- 
ing to S. Watson). Ascends to 3500 feet in Vir- 
ginia. May-July. 
5. Vicia micrantha Nutt. Small-flow- 
ered Vetch. (Fig. 2208.) 
Victa micrantha Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 271. 
1838. 
Perennial (or sometimes annual?) glabrous, 
stems very slender, 1°-2° long. Leaflets 2-5 
pairs, narrowly linear to linear-oblong, thin, 
%4/-1)4/ long, 1//-2/’ wide, obtuse, acutish or 
emarginate, or those of the lower leaves obo- 
vate, oval, or even obcordate, usually shorter; 
peduncles 4//-15’’ long, 1-2-flowered; flowers 
2//-3// long, purplish; pod slightly pubescent, 
or glabrous, about 1/ long, 214’’ wide, 6-12- 
seeded; seeds compressed. 
On prairies and in thickets, Missouri to Ten- 
nessee, Alabama and Texas. April-May. 
6. Vicia Ludoviciana Nutt. Lou- 
isiana Vetch. (Fig. 2209.) 
Vicia Ludoviciana Nutt.; T. & G, Fl. N. A. 1: 
277. 1838, 
Perennial, glabrous, or the young parts 
pubescent; stem rather stout, angled, 114°- 
3° long. Leaflets 4 or 5 pairs, elliptic, oval 
or obovate, thin, 6’/-10’’ long, 2/’-4’’ wide, 
obtuse or emarginate; stipules very narrow, 
rarely over 3’ long, linear, or half-sagittate; 
peduncles shorter than the leaves, or about 
equalling them, 2-6-flowered (rarely 1I- 
flowered); flowers 3/’-4’ long, bluish; pod 
1’ long, or rather more, 3//-5’’ wide, gla- 
brous, 4-6-seeded, the seeds compressed. 
Kansas (?), Texas and Louisiana to Florida. 
April-May. 
