313 314 



tomentulose-canescent; Ifts 10-15 pairs, Greene, Fl Fran 3 (1891). 



oval or oblong, obtuse, 1 cm % long or Type locality: "Calaveras Co," Cal. 



more; spike-like racemes, 3-6 cm long Coville, CNH 4:88. Tehachapi valley 



or sometimes more; fls 12 mm long; ex- (No. 1120). 



tube campanulate, teeth subulate, more VICIA EXIGUA Nutt. 



than half as long as the tube; pod thin, California Vetch: very slender, 1-2 



bladdery, oval, unequally sided, 2-3 cm hi; Ifts 4-12, oblong to narrowly linear, 



long, tapering to a stipe 12 mm long or acute or obtusish; ped filiform, shorter 



less. than the Ivs, lMs-2' long, 1 or 2-fld; fls 



Abrams, Fl LA 223. 2 or 3" long, w or p'ish; pods glabrous, 



ASTRAGALUS PARISHII A. Gray. 4 or 5 -seeded. 



Nascent parts sparsely pubescent, be- Variety HASSEI Jepson. 



coming glabrous or nearly so; sts some- Jepson, Fl Midd Cal 296, based on 



what fistulose, much branched from the Vicia Hassei S. Wats, 



base and decumbent; Ivs about 1 dm Abrams, Fl LA 225. 



long, bearing about 32 Ifts 10-25 mm Nuttall in T & G Fl 1:272. 



long; racemes 2-4 cm long; fls g'ish-w, Cruz; San Miguel Island (Greene); 



1 cm long; pods sessile, 2-3 cm long, Cat (Gambel); San Clemente Island. 

 nearly as thick. SD! Baja! LA (Bolander). 



Abfams, Fl LA 223. Chatsworth Park. VICIA LINEARI3 Greene. 



Hall, U 89. Davidson, PI LA Co 5. 



ASTRAGALUS PTCNOSTACHYS Gray. Is Vicia Americana linearis. 



Stout, erect, 6 dm hi, more or less vil- VICIA SATIVA L. 



lous-hoary; Ifts about 21, oblong, 12 Stoutish, erect or nearly so, 6-9 dm 



mm long; fls y'ish, in dense cylindric hi, somewhat pubescent; Ifts 8-12, obo- 



short-peduncled spikes; pods crowded, vate-oblong, truncate or retuse, mucron- 



retrorsely imbricated, ovate, acute, lat- ate; fls 1 or 2, subsessile, 15 mm long, 



erally flattened, thin-coriaceous, gla- r-p. Eu. Rarely seen as an escape, 



brous, coarsely reticulate, 1-celled. Abrams, Fl LA 225. 



Abrams, Fl LA 223. Davidson, PI LA Co 5; Erythea 1:59, 



VICIA AMERICANA Muhl. wl a m 



Nearly tfalmms; ^^^"f^^ ^^ 55!??. Seating Ivs, etc, 

 sharply C 4-8ided or ^winged at the ^n- pubescent, becoming glabrous; lfts'4-12| 

 gles; Ifts mostly broadly oblong, often narrowly linear, acute, 3-7" long; tip- 

 widest above the middle, usually obtuse, ul( ; s sm, subulate-lanceolate or linear, 

 mucronulate, less than 1' long; ped n ?t w a $ al \ sagittate, entire: ped short 

 shorter than the Ivs, 4-8 fld; fls at first (2 ' 6 lon .T), bearing 1 or rarely 2 sm w 

 purplish, changing to bluish, 9" long or purplish fls: ex nearly glabrous, the 

 ex-tube 2" long, the lower teeth longer teeth rather short-acuminate: pods^gla;- 

 (1" long), the upper approximate, 

 curved. Cruz; Rosaa. 



Abrams, Fl LA 224. Notes only the 



2 varieties as occurring in LA Co. and NM - s - Watson, Am ac pr 25:129. 

 Davidson, PI LA Co 5. Genus PROSOPIS Linnaena. 



Variety MNEABIS 3 S. Watson. 3 ? rees or sh r ubs often armed with axy 



Lfts" narrowly linear, acute, strongly n?nna/te ^ith^^oi^^oarr^of Pinnae and 



veined beneath 12-25 cm long. usually num sm entire Ifts: fls g'ish, 



^AJ25 reg in cylindric or globose axy pedun- 



e > f. culate spikes: ex campanulate, teeth 

 very short and valvate: pet 5, valvate, 



onger J nort-acummate: pods gia- 



, in- brous, sessile, oblong, obliquely acute at 



eacn end > about 9" long by 2*4-3 broad, 



5 ' 7 vuled. From So Ut and Colo to Ar 



a rpwpr 



re\ver. united below the middle or at length 



LftS Oblong-elliptic Or the lower f ree W0 ollv on thp innpr <*idp- tstn 1ft 



broadly linear. 15-20 cm long, truncate S2? a^id exserted a.nth tinned 

 or broadly retuse at summit, otherwise 



hu 



slopes in the chaparral belt. straight, falcate or twisted, coriaceous 



Brewer hot Cal 1-158 a ? d ind ehiscent, usually pulpy within: 



Sbrams, F^ LA^S 108 ' PBOSOpis^IP^iTnC 



SBer Co (Parish): LA (Davidson); ^fSSS ^^S" Ashrub or sm 



Vicia truncata Nuttall i tree> much branch ed, the branches wide- 



ly spreading; spines axillary; petioles 



VICIA CAIilFORNICA Greene. glabrous or sparsely puberulent- Ifts 



Erect or decumbent, rather strict and 8-12 pairs, the pairs about 1 cm distant, 



seldom climbing, 1.5-4 dm hi, villous- linear, 12-15 mm long, 2.5-4 5 mm wide 



pubescent; tendrils short, stiffish, sel- sparsely puberulent at least on the 



dom branched; Ifts 8-12, subcoriaceous, margins: spikes nearly sessile, 5-8 cm 



delicately feather- veined, cuneate-obo- long, usually dense; fls very short-pe- 



vate, truncate or retuse, 10-15 mm long, dicelled, 2 mm long: pods straight or 



more or less dentate toward the mu- slightly falcate, only 1-3 developing, 



cronulate apex; racemes exceeding the 10-15 cm long, 10-12 mm wide, longitud- 



Ivs, 3-5-fld; ex-teeth all broad and short; inally veiny, on stipes about 5 mm long, 



cor 12-18 mm long, deep p. straw-colored and sweetish when ma- 



Abrams, Fl LA 225. Summit of Mt ture. 



belt of the Cuyamaca mts. Abrams, Fl LA 205. SBer; CD. 



