VETCH FAMILY. 5v7 
,ALABaMa: Mountain region. Lower Metamorphic hills. Central Prairie region, 
limestone hills. Lee County, Auburn (Baker § Earle, 134). Wileox County 
(Buckley). Flowers pearl blue, April. Rare. Annual. 
Type locality: “Prairies and woods of Arkansas, Nuttall! Louisiana and Texas, 
Dr, Leavenworth! on the Red River, Dr. Hale!” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vicia caroliniana 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. F1. 98. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario; New York west to Minnesota, Mis- 
souri, and Arkansas, south from New York to western Virginia, eastern Tennessce, 
and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Cullman County, 800 feet. Winston 
and Blount counties. Tuscaloosa County (2. A. smith). 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. 
Loursiana Vetcn. DEER Pra. 
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. Annnal. 
Type lucality: ‘Grassy places on the Red River, and in Texas, Dr. Learenworth! 
‘In Lonisiana, Mr. Tainturier,’ Nuttall.” 
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; ascunding- 
decumbent, more or less angled; leaves 2 to 24 inches long, short-petioled, leaflets 
10 to 12, linear, $ to | inch long, with short petiolules; 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 }$ as long as the tube, pods linear-oblong, } inch 
long. 
Carolinian area. Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Open woods. Lee County, Auburn, March, April, 
1896, 1897 (Underwood §: Eurle). 
Type locality: ‘‘In open woods, Georgia and Alabama.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vicia tetrasperma (L.) Moench, Meth. 148. 1794. WiLp LENTIL. 
Ervum tetraspermum L. Sp. Pl. 2: 738. 1753. 
EvuROpE. 
ALABAMA: Adventive with ballast. Mobile, May, 1879; not found since. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. inter Europae segetes.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Vicia hirsuta (L.) Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv. 191. 1837, Hairy VETcu. 
Ervum hirsutum L. Sp. Pl. 2: 738. 1753. 
Vicia mitchellit Raf. Prec. Decouy. 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. Pl. 2:736. 1753. COMMON VETCH. 
Ell. Sk.2:224. Gray, Man. ed.6,143. Chap. Fl. 18. 
EUROPE. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Introduced and cscaped 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 segetes hodic.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
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