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pod shortly stipitate, 5— 8-seeded. — Of more southerly distribution than 

 the preceding, but found at Benicia, Bigelow. 



5. V. sativa, L. Stoutish, subereet, 2—3 ft. high : leaflets 8 or 10, 

 obovate-oblong, truncate or retuse, mucronate: fl. 1 or 2, subsessile, 

 % in. long, red-purple. — The "Vetch or Tare, cultivated from time im- 

 memorial as a food and fodder plant; of frequent occurrence by 

 way-sides and in old fields. 



3. LATHYRUS, Theophr. (Wit-d Pea). Coarser plants than Vicia, 

 with broader leaves and flowers, the style villous in a line up and down 

 the inside (next the free stamen). 



* Tendril-bearing ; the racemes many-flowered. 



1. L. Bolanderi, Wats. Often shrubby below, 3— 5 ft. high: leaflets 

 3—5 pairs, ovate, obtuse or retuse, mucronate, 1 — \% in. long, thin, on 

 very short petiolules: stipules broadly semisagitlate, acute, # more or less 

 toothed: peduncles equalling the leaves: lower calyx-teeth lanceolate- 

 acuminate, longer than the tube; upper very short, broadly triangular, all 

 glabrous along the margin, or nearly so: corolla % in. long, rose-purple, 

 fading yellowish. — Frequent on wooded slopes. 



2. L. Jepsonii, Greene. Nearly or quite glabrous; stem 5—8 ft. 

 high, strongly winged along the angles and striate between them: leaflets 

 8—12, linear-lanceolate, acute, 2 — 3 in. long, subcoriaceous, venulose: 

 stipules small, setaceously acuminate: peduncles stout, about as long 

 as the leaves: fl. rose-purple; calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, the lowest not 

 much longer than the others; corolla %. in. long, relatively broad: pod 

 2 — 3 in. long, sessile in the calyx, 12 — 16-seeded. — Muddy margins of 

 sloughs, within reach of tide-water in the Suisun marshes. 



3. L. pubernlus, White. Low, herbaceous, or, 8—15 ft. high and 

 shrubby at base, soft-pubescent or nearly glabrous, the stems angled: 

 leaflets 5—7 pairs, ovate-oblong to linear, cuspidate, subcoriaceous: 

 stipules broadly or narrowly semisagittate, toothed or entire : peduncles 

 about equalling the leaves; fl. % in. long, broad, purplish; lower calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the tube: ovary and pod 

 appressed-pubescent. — From Sonoma Co. southward. Feb. — May. 



* * Without tendrils; peduncles 1—3 flowered. 



4 L. Torreyi, Gray. Erect, slender, 1—2 ft. high, the herbage thin, 

 light green, fragrant: leaflets 4 — 6 pairs, with or without a reduced 

 terminal odd one, round-ovate or oblong, % i n - l° n gi mucronate: stipules 

 narrow, acuminate, the lower lobe short or almost obsolete: fl. 1 or 2, 

 short-peduncled, white or pinkish: calyx-teeth narrowly subulate, the 

 upper a little shorter: pod 1 in. long, pubescent, 3 — 6-seeded. — From 

 Santa Clara Co., to Napa and northward, in dry woods. Herbage remark- 

 able as exhaling the fragrance of Asperula odorata. May. 



