156 LEGUMINOS#. VICIA. 
VY. semicincta Greene Eryth. iii, 17. Stoutish, very leafy, probably 
several feet high, the stem very prominently striate-angled and puberu- 
lent: leaflets 20-24, approximate, about 1 inch long, oblong-linear, mu- 
cronate, glabrous above, beneath silky-puberulent: peduncles far surpass- 
ing the leaves, the flowers probably in a short and dense raceme: pods 
obliquely oblong-linear, less than 9 lines long, glaucescent, not blackening 
in matur.ty, few-seeded: seeds globose, 114 lines thick, dull black, nearly 
half encircled by the hilum. On Crane Creek, southeastern Oregon. (Mrs. 
R. M. Austin, 1893.) 
Vy. Americana Muhl. Willd. Sp. iii, 1096. Glabrous throughout: 
stems 1-4 feet high, from creeplng jointed rootstocks: leaflets 4-8 pairs, 
variable,* usually oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or truncate, mu- 
cronate, entire, somewhat coriaceous, prominently veined and reticulated, 
6-12 lines long: peduncles shorter than the leaves, 4-8-flowered ; flowers 
purple, 6-9 lines long; calyx tubular, the 2 upper teeth very short or ob- 
solete, the lateral ones broadly subulate, the lower one narrow, not half as 
long as the corolla; style very villous at the top: pods oblong, glabrous, 
an inch or more long, 3-6-seeded ; seeds dark purple, 144 lines in diameter. 
oa in copses, Oregon and Washington to the Atlantic States and 
anada. 
VY. truncata Nutt. T. & G. Fl. i, 270. Somewhat pubescent: stems 1-2 
feet high, weak: leaflets 5-6 pairs, oblong-linear, usually truncate, 
serrate or tridentate at the apex, 10-12 lines long by 1-4 lines broad, the 
lowest ones often simply acute and apiculate; stipules lunate, incisely 
serrate: peduncles 4-7-flowered, rather shorter ‘hen the leaves; lower 
teeth of the calyx lanceolate, acuminate, the upper ones very short, tri- 
angular; style very villous at the apex: pods oblong, an inch long, 1-8- 
seeded: seeds globular, 144 lines in diameter. Common in copses, Brit. 
Columbia to California. 
V. Californica Greene Fl. Fr. 3. Villous-pubescent: stems erect or 
decumbent, 6-12 inches high, scarcely climbing, the tendrils usually short 
and stiffish, not branching: leaflets 8-14, delicately feather-veined, cune- 
ate oblong to oblong or orbicular, truncate, or retuse, mucronate, 2-7 iines 
long, more or less dentate toward the apex: peduncles 3-5-flowered; up- 
per teeth of the calyx triangular, the lower ones subulate; corolla 6-9 
lines long, deep purple: pods oblong, pubescent, 2-10-seeded. In copses, 
southern Oregon to California. 
* * Few-flowered annuals. 
V. exigua Nutt. T.@G. Fl. i, 272. More or less pubescent: stems 
slender, 4-18 inches high, branching: leaflets 6-8, oblong to linear, ob- 
tuse, often tridentate at the apex, 2-12 lines long: peduncles filiform, 1-2- 
flowered, shorter than the leaves; teeth of the calyx lanceolate, broad at 
the base, shorter than the tube; corolla white or purple, 3 lines long: 
pods oblong, nearly sessile, 8-12 lines long, glabrous, 2-8-seeded. South- 
ern Oregon to California. 
* * * Annuals: flowers 3-6, on elongated peduncles. 
V. uresuta Koch Syn. 191. Stems weak and slender, branching: leaf- 
lets 4-10 pairs, linear, truncate or retuse at the apex, mucronulate: pe- 
duncles 3--6-flowered, about the length of the leaves; flowers white, 2 lines 
long; calyx hairy, the subulate teeth nearly equalling the petals, all 
nearly alike: pods oblong, 4--6 lines long, torulose, hirsute. 2-seeded ; seeds 
subglobose, somewhat compressed. In fields and roadsides, western Ore- 
gon and Washington. Introduced from Europe. 
* * * * Annuals; flowers 1--2, sessile in the axils of the upper 
leaves. 
V. sativa L. Sp. 736. (TARES). Rather stout, somewhat pubescent: — 
