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racemes crowded, secund ; teeth of the calyx unequal ; upper ones 

 very short ; lower ones shorter than the tube ; styles hairy at the top; 

 legume oblong, coriaceous, compressed. 



HAB. Meadows. N. S. Aug. II. Stem subpubescent. Leaves 

 pinnate. Floioers small, pale purple, numerous, drooping and 

 imbricated. Tufted Fetch. 



** Flowers nearly sessile. 



4. V. sativa Linn. : leafets 10- 42, obovate-retuse or oblong-retuse, 

 mucronate, smooth or hairy ; stipules semisagittate, toothed, with a 

 dark spot beneath ; flowers mostly in pairs, sessile ; calyx cylindric ; 

 segments linear-lanceolate, nearly equal ; style bearded at the top j 

 legume compressed. 



HAB. Fields. Can. to Car. June. 0. Stem 1 2 feet high. 

 Flowers small, blue. A very variable species. Common Vetch. 



19. ERVUM. Linn. 



Calyx 5-cleft, segments linear, acute, nearly equalling the 

 coroj. Stigma glabrous. Legume oblong, 24 seeded. 



Diadelphia. Decandria. 



* Legume broad-oblong, %-sceded. 



1. E. hirsutum Linn. : leafets linear, obtuse, mucronate ; stipules 

 semisagittate, narrow ; peduncles 3 6-flowered, shorter than the 

 leaves} segments of the calyx linear-lanceolate, equal, longer than the 

 tube ; legume oblong, compressed, hairy, finely reticulate ; seeds glo- 

 bose, variegated. Vicia Michelli Raf. 



HAB. Fields. N. Y. to Car. May, June. ^.Stem 23 feet 

 long, much branched and diffuse. Leaves cirrose. Floioers 

 very small, bluish-white. Hairy Tare. 



** Legume oblong-tinear, 4 6-seeded. 



2. E. tetraspermum Linn. : stems cespitose, branching ; leafets 4 6, 

 oblong mucronate ; stipules lanceolate semisagittate ; peduncles 1 4- 

 flowered, filiform ; segments of the calyx unequal, broadish, shorter 

 than the tube ; legume oblong, compressed, smooth ; seeds subglobose, 

 black. Vicia pusilla Muhl. 



HAB. Fields, &c. N. S. May, June. %. Stems very slender. 

 Flowers minute, bluish-white. Smaller and slenderer than the 

 last. Smooth Tare. 



20. PISUM. Linn. 



Segments of the calyx leafy ; two upper ones shorter. 

 Standard large, reflexed. Style compressed, keeled, villous 

 above. Legume oblong, compressed, not winged. Seeds 

 many, subglobose, with a roundish hilum. 



Diadelphia. Decandria. 

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