48 LEGUMINOS®. (PEA FAMILY.) 
1. A, didymocarpus, Hook. & Arn. Slender from 3 inches to a foot high; leaflets 
9 to 1£, narrowly oblong to linear and more or less cuneate, deeply notched at the apex; 
small flowers white and violet; pod not over two lines long, short vval and deeply 2-lobed 
lengthwise. 
2. A, tener. Gr. A span orso in hight; leaflets similar to the last, not so deeply 
notched or entire; pod about half an inch long, 5-10-seeded; corolla 4 or 5 lines long, 
bright violet to pale and violet-tipped. 
3. A. oxyphysus, Gr. Canescent with very soft silky pubescence; stem erect, 2 
to 3 ft. high; leaflets oblong an inch or less in length; peduncles much exceeding the 
leaves; corolla greenish-white 8 lines long; bladdery pod acuminate and tapering into the 
recurved stipe which a little exceeds the calyx. 
4, A, leucophyllus, Torr. & Gr. Less canescent than the last; flowers about half 
an inch long; corolla yellowish-white; the thin pod unequal-sided, an inch and a half 
long on a filiform pubescent stipe of almost equal length. ; 
5. A, Crotalariz, Gr., var. virgatus,Gr. Smooth or the young parts villous; stems 
2 or 3 ft, high, stout; stipules scarious, triangular or subulate, distinct; peduncles elon- 
gated; racemes virgate and loose, 4 to 10 inches long; the white flowers soon deflexed. 
6. A, Menziesii, Gr. Villous with whitish hairs or soon green and almost smooth; 
stems sometimes decumbent, 1 to 4 ft. high; the lower stipules united opposite the leaf; 
inflorescence similar to the last but more dense; pod larger (an inch and a half or more 
long) and more bladdery. 
7. A. Douglasii, Gr. Cinereous-puberulent, almost smooth in age, stems ascend- 
ing, a foot or so in height; leaflets in numerous pairs; linear or linear-oblong, 4 to 9 lines 
long; spike, half to an inch long; 10-20-flowered; pod gibbous-ovoid, 14 to 2 inches long. 
ll. VICIA, Tourn. VetTcH. TARE. 
Calyx 5-toothed or cleft, usually unequally. Wings adherent to the middle of the 
short keel. Stamens diadelphous or nearly so. Style filiform, inflexed, the apex sur- 
rounded by hairs or hairy upon the back. Pod flat 2-valved, shortly stipitate. Herbs, 
with angular stems climbing by branched tendrils terminating the pinnate leaves; leaflets 
entire or toothed at the apex; stipules semi-sagittate; flowers solitary or in loose axillary 
racemes. 
* Perennials; flowers in pedunculate racemes. 
1. V. gigantea, Hook. Stout and tall, climbing several feet high; leaflets 10 to 15 
pairs, oblong, obtuse, mucronate, an inch or two long; stipules large; peduncles 
5-18-flowered; corolla 6 or 7 lines long, pale purple; pod broadly oblong, 14 inches long 
or more, smooth 3-4-seeded. 
The seeds are large and edible; blackens in drying. 
2. V. Americana, Muhl. Usually rather stout, 1 to 4 ft. high, smooth: leaflets 4 
to 8 pairs, variable, linear to ovate-oblong, truncate to acute, 4 to 2 inches long; pedun- 
