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Iate-lin«ar segment at base on one side, pilose ; racemes many-flowered, 

 longer than the leaves ; flowers secund, crowded, retrorsely imbricated. 

 Beck, Bot. p. 88. [g* 1 wicke - 



y u tgd— Tufted Vetch. Gall— Vesce a bouquets. Germ.— Die Vo- 



Root perennial. Stem 13 inches to 3 feet long, slender, 4-angled, striate, pubes- 

 cent, branching, and climbing by tendrils. Leaflets in 5 to 10 pairs, opposite, or 

 alternate, about an inch long, and 1 to 2 or 3 lines wide, sublinear, or lance-oblong, 

 rather obtuse, mucronate, silky-pilose beneath ; common petioles 2 to 3 inches long, 

 pubescent, pinnate to the base, terminating in a long branching tendril; stipules 

 lance-linear, entire, or mostly with a divaricate subulate segment at base on one 

 side, pilose and ciliate. Racemes 1 to 2 inches long, 10 to 20-flowered, secund, 

 mostly recurved, on axillary sulcate-striate pubescent peduncles 1 to 3 inches 

 long ; flowers deflected, or imbricated backwards, on short pubescent pedicels. 

 Calyx somewhat hairy ; upper segments very short, obtuse, the lower ones lance- 

 olate, pilose-ciliate. Corolla pale violet-purple, scarcely half an inch long. Style 

 pilose near the stigma ; stigma bearded. Legume compressed, oblong, coriaceous, 

 reticulated, smooth, fuscous. Seeds subglobose, nearly black. 

 Hub. Borders of woods, and meadows: not common. Ft. June— July. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. This occurs in several localities,— and is even troublesome about many 

 gardens ; but I am not quite satisfied of its being a native, here. 



3. V. sativa, L. Leaflets 10 or 12, ovate-oblong, or linear-oblong, 



retuse, mucronate, more or less pilose beneath ; stipules semi-sagittate, 



more or less dentate ; flowers axillary, mostly in pairs, subsessile. JJeck, 



Bot. p. 89. 



Cultivated Vicia. Vulgo— Common Vetch, Tare. 



Qallice — La Vesce. Germ. — Die Futterwicke. Jlisp. — Alverjana. 



Root annual. Stem 1 to 3 feet long, striate, more or less pubescent, mostly sim- 

 ple, procumbent, or climbing by tendrils. Leaflets 3 fourths of an inch to an inch 

 and half long, & 1 or 2 lines to half an inch wide, varying from sublinear to ovale 

 and obovatc-oblong (the narrow ones often the longest), mostly truncate and retuse 

 at apex ; common petioles an inch and half to 3 inches long, pinnate to the base, 

 terminating in a long branching tendril ; stipules semi -sagittate, nerved, with un- 

 equal acuminate teeth, somewhat ciliate, often marked with a dark spot near the 

 base. Flowers mostly in pairs, sometimes solitary, axillary, subsessile. Calyx 

 tubular, nerved, somewhat pilose ; segments as long as the tube, nearly equal, 

 linear-lanceolate, nerved, ciliate. Corolla pale viulet-purplc, about half an inch 

 Ion". Style short; stigma bearded. Legume an inch to an inch and half long, 

 compressed, torulose, reticulate, minutely pilose. Seeds orbicular, subcompressed, 

 dark brown. 

 Hob. Cultivated grounds: not common. Fl. June— July. Fr. August. 



Obs. This is occasionally to be met with ; but certainly, I think, not a native, 

 here. Three or four additional species are enumerated in the U. States* 



347. ERVUM. Z. B C. Prodr. 2. p. 366. 

 [The Latin name for a species of Vetch, or Tare.] 



Calyx 5-parted ; segments lance-linear, acute, nearly equal, about as 

 long as the corolla. Stigma glabrous. Legume oblong, 2 to 4-seedcd 



1. E. Lens, L. Stem erect, branching ; leajlets elliptic-oblong, 

 somewhat pilose ; stipules obliquely ovate-lanceolate, ciliate ; pedum* 



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