426 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA 



vies 2 or Z-Jlotvered ; legumes broad, short, finely reticulated, smooth, 

 2-seeded ; seed* lenticular. DC. Prodr. 2. p. 3G6. 



Cicer Lens. Willd. Sp. 3. p. 1114. Vulgd— Lentil. 



Gallice — La Lentille. Germanice — Die Linse. Hispanicc — Lentfa 



Root annual. Stein 6 to 12 inches high, somewhat A-an^led, slightly pubescent, 

 branched. Leaflets in 8 to 6 or 8 pairs, luilf an inch to near an inch long, and \ w 

 2 lints to 1 third of an inch wide, elliptic-oblong, often rather acute at each end> 

 more or less pubescent ; common petioles I to 2 inches long, terminating in a sub- 

 simple tendril ; stipules obliquely ovate-lanccolutc, nerved, pubescent and dilate. 

 Peduncles half an inch to an inch long, axillary, pubescent, 2 or WjUncered ; {MiK \^ 

 eels 2 or 15 lines long. Calyx pilose ; segments rather longer than the corolla, pi. 

 lose-ciliate. Corolla white. Legume about half an inch long, and I third of an 

 inch wide* Seeds 2, orbicular, compressed. 

 Hub. Gardens: not common. Fl, June— July. Fr. August. 



Obs. Occasionally cultivated as a culinary vegetable ; but is not likely to come 

 into general use. 



2. E. niiisuTrtt, //. Stem slender, diffuse, scandent ; leaflets cuneat* 



linear, emarginately truncate, mucronate ; stipules lance-subulate ; 

 peduncles 3 to 6-flowcred ; legumes oblong, obliquely truncate, hirsute, 

 2-secded ; seeds subglobose. fleck, JBot. p. 89. 

 Vicia Mitchelli. Ell. Sk\ 2. p. 224. Also, DC. Prodr. 2. p. 3G0. 



Hirsute Euvu^r. 



Root annual 1 Stem 2 to 3 feet long, very slender, angular and striate, slightly 

 pubescent, branching, and climbing by tendrils. Leaflets numerous (8 to 16 of 

 20), 1 third to 2 thirds of an inch long, and scarcely a line wide, sublinear, incli- 

 ning: to cuneate, truncate or retuse at apex, mucronate, often appearing somewhat 

 tridentate, smooth ish ; common petioles 1 to 2 inches long, terminating in a slender 

 branching tendril ; stipules narrow, entire, or often cleft, forming a slender sub- 

 ulate diverging segment on one side. Peduncles half an inch to an inch long, p u . 

 beseem, axillary, 3 to G-flowered at summit. Calyx pilose ; segments rather shorter 

 than the corolla, subulate. Corolla bluish white. Legume scarcely half an inch 

 long, and about 2 lines wide, obliquely truncate, torulose, hirsute, 2-seeded. Seed* 

 orbicular, somewhat compressed, reddish brown (variegated, DC), 

 Hab. Schuylkill, at Black Rock : rare. Fl. May-June. Fr. July. 



06s. Collected by Miss A. Kimber, in 1834. It is a rare plant, here ; and I sus- 

 pect is not indigenous. It is doubtful whether there are any native species in the 

 V. States. 



348. PISUM. L. JYutt. Gen. 594. 

 [The Latin name for the Pea.] 



Calyx-segments foliaceous ; the 2 upper ones shorter. Vexillum large, 

 reflexed. ° Style compressed, keeled, villose on the tipper margin. Leg* 

 vme oblong, sub-compressed. Seeds numerous, globose, with an orbic- 

 ular hilum. 



1* P. sativum, L. Leaflets ovate, entire ; stipules ovate, semi- 

 sagittate, dentate at base ; peduncles 2 or many- /lowered ; legumes 

 subcaniose. DC. Prodr. 2. p. 368. 

 Cultivated Pisum. Vulgd— Pea f Garden Pea. 



