COMMON VETCH AND ITS VARIETIES 
Key to varieties 
Plants with underground stems, bearing cleistogamous 
flowers Vicia sativa ant ph icarpa. 
Plants without underground stems, no cleistogamous 
flowers. 
Stipules entire V. s. remrevillensis. 
Stipules not entire. 
Pods 10 to 11 millimeters, reticulate V. s. macrocarpa. 
Pods 5 to 10 millimeters, not reticulate. 
Plants glabrous V. s. glabra. 
Plants not glabrous. 
Leaflets incised V. s. incisa. 
Leaflets entire. 
Flowers three to four V. s. tri flora. 
Flowers one to two. 
Corolla white V . s. alba. 
Corolla colored. 
Flowers 3 centimeters long V. s. grandiflora. 
Flowers 2 to 2.5 centimeters long. 
Corolla pink V. s. carnea. 
Corolla purple. 
Pods 7 to 10 millimeters w T ide. 
Leaflets obcordate, apex deeply 
incised V. s. cordifolia. 
Leaflets obovate V. s. obovata. 
Leaflets obovate, seed red V. s. erythrosperma. 
Leaflets obovate, seed palepink_ V. s. leucosperma. 
Leaflets obovate, seed dark V. s. melanosperma. 
Pods 5 to 6 millimeters wide. 
Leaflets truncate V. s. torulosa. 
Leaflets not truncate. 
Pods dark brown or brownish 
black V. s. maculata. 
Pods pale brown, at least not 
dark brown. 
Seeds mottled brown and 
green V. s. cosentini. 
Seeds not mottled brown 
and green. 
Leaflets linear-obovate, 
apex rounded V. s. nemoralis. 
Leaflets narrowly linear 
to linear-cuneate V. s. linearis. 
NUMBERS CLASSIFIED 
For convenience of record the various Foreign Seed and Plant 
Introduction (S. P. I.) and Forage-Crop Investigations (F. C. I.) 
accession numbers used in this study are listed according to the fore- 
going classification. All numbers beginning with (zero) are F. C. I. 
numbers, all others are S. P. I. numbers. 
Vicia sativa var. alba: 02830. 
var. carnea: 17015, 17028, 18805, 31086. These varieties have reddish 
seeds like V. sativa erythrosperma. No. 31086 has flat seeds. 
var. cosentini: 16469. 
var. erythrosperma: 13415, 17012, 17021, 17029, 17034, 17790, 18134, 18135, 
18803, 18804, 18814, 18818, 18819, 18823, 21196, 28315, 31080, 31082, 
31087, 31092. All the foregoing have small seeds except 18134, 21196, 
31082, and 31092; these are larger and are of a distinctly lighter shade of 
reddish brown. 
var. leucosperma: 04385, 16488, 31075, 31084. 
var. linearis: 18822, 31077, 31090. 
var. macrocarpa: 13425, 17024, 18138, 18813. 
var. melanosperma: 02831, 02992, 04324, 04432, 13407, 13420, 13427, 13430, 
16452, 16462, 18141, 18338, 20570, 21197, 21363, 21519, 29086, 32195. 
var. nemoralis: 7717. 
var. torulosa: 21582, 21944, 25150. 
