VETCH FAMILY. 577 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Lower Metamorphic hills. Central Prairie region, 

 limestone hills. Lee County, Auburn (leaker <)' Earlc, 134). Wilcox County 

 (Buckley}. Flowers pearl blue, April. Rare. Annual. 



Type locality : " Prairies and woods of Arkansas, NuttaU! Louisiana and Texas, 

 Dr.'Leavenworth! on the Red River, Dr. Hale!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vicia car oliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 182. 1788. WHITE-FLOWERED VETCH. 



Vicia parviflora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 69. 1803. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 224. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 143. Chap. Fl. 98. 



Allegheniau to Louisianian area. Ontario; New York west to Minnesota, Mis- 

 souri, and Arkansas, south from New r York to western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, 

 and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Cullman County, 800 feet. Winston 

 and Blouut counties. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. bmith). Mobile County. Chunchula. 

 Flowers white ; April. Not infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vicia ludoviciana Nutt. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 271. 1840. 



LOUISIANA VKTCH. DEER PEA. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 616 ; ed. 3, 107. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 87. 



Louisianian area. Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Low grassy places. Rich damp soil. Mobile County, 

 West Fowl River. Flowers azure; April. Not frequent. Annual. 



Type locality : "Grassy places on the Red River, and in Texas, ])r. I.eartnworih! 

 'In Louisiana, Mr. Tainturier,' NuttaU." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vicia hugeri Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 490. 1897. HUGER'S VETCH. 



Slender, bright green, minutely pubescent or glabrate in age; ascending- 

 decumbent, more or less angled; leaves 2 to 2| inches long, short-petioled, leaflets 

 10 to 12, linear, to $ inch long, with short petiolulcs; peduncles 2 to 3 inches long 

 in secund racemes, 10 to 14 flowered ; flowers small, white or pinkish, scarcely inch 

 long, calyx teeth triangular about A- as long as the tube, pods linear-oblong, f inch 

 long. 



Carolinian area. Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Open woods. Lee County, Auburn, March, April, 

 1896, 1897 ( Underwood t y- Earlc). 



Type locality: "In open woods, Georgia and Alabama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vicia tetrasperma (L.) Moench, Meth. 148. 1794. WILD LENTIL. 



Errum tetraspermum L. Sp. PL 2 : 738. 1753. 

 EUROPE. 



ALABAMA: Ad ventive with ballast. Mobile, May, 1879; not found since. Annual. 

 Type locality: "Hab. inter Europae segetes." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vicia hirsuta (L.) Koch, Syu. Fl. Germ. Helv. 191. 1837. HAIRY VETCH. 



Ervum hirsutum L. Sp. PI. 2 : 738. 1753. 

 Vicia mitchelUi Raf. Prec. Decouv. 37. 1814. 

 EUROPE. 



Carolinian area. Naturalized coast of New England to New Jersey. Annual. 

 ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile, 1869. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Europae agris." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vicia sativa L. Sp. PI. 2 : 736. 1753. COMMON VETCH. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 224. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 143. Chap. Fl. 18. 



EUROPE. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Introduced and escaped from cultivation. 

 Naturalized in many localities from New England to the Gulf. 



ALABAMA: Fully established locally. Borders of fields, waste and cultivated 

 places. Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, and Mobile counties. Flowers March, April. 

 Annual. 



Type locality : "Hab. inter Europae segetcs hodie." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 1 1 erb. Mohr. 



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