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and with half-sagittate or entire 

 stipules. The flowers are blue, 

 violet, yellowish, or white, and 

 in axillary racemes. The calyx: 

 tube is oblique, and its teeth or 

 lobes are about equal, or the 

 two upper ones somewhat longer. 

 The standard is notched at the 

 tip, and the wings arc attached 

 to the curved keel. The slamens 

 are diadelphous (nine and one), 

 or monadelphous below, and 

 have fihform filaments. The 

 sessile or stipitate ovary has 

 numerous ovules and a slender 

 style with a tuft or ring of hairs 

 at its summit (Fig. 173, A). 

 The pod is flat. 



Geographical. — There are more than 

 100 species of Vicia, of wide geograph- 

 ical distribution. There are about 20 

 wild species in the United States. 



Key to Important Species of Vria 



Plants erect, smooth, or only slightly 

 hairy, seldom tendril-bearing; flowers 

 whitish with dark blue spots on each 

 wing, V.fabj (broad or Windsor bean). 

 Plants weak, usually hair>', tendril- 

 bearing; flowers purplish. 

 Leaves rounded at tip; flowers many, 



in long one-sided racemes (I'ig. 



182), V. villosa (hairy vetch). 

 Leaves truncate at tip; flowers few, 



usually two in each leaf axil, V. 



saliva (vetch). 



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Fk;. 180. — Types of bean seeds. 

 I, Broad Windsor; 2, While 

 Narrow Field; 3, Dutch Case 

 Knife Pole; 4, White Dutch Run- 

 ner Pole; 5, Grenells Stringless 

 Green Pod; 6, Lohk Yellow Si.x 

 Weeks; 7, Lohk White Pule Lima; 

 8. Powell's Prolific Pole; 9, Dreer's 

 Pole Lima; 10, Florida Butter 

 Pole Lima; ir. Yellow Cranberry 

 Bush; 12, Horticultural Wax; 

 1,3, Red Mexican; 14. French 

 Kidney. (Modifial after Tracy. 

 U. :S. Dcpi. Agri.) 



