. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 2. Vicia americana Aluhl. American or Pur- ple Vetch. Pea Vine. Fig. 2614. Vicia americana Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1096. 1803. Perennial, glabrous or with some appressed pubes- cence, trailing or climbing, 2°-3° long. Leaves nearly sessile; stipules broad, foliaceous, triangular- ovate, sharply toothed, 2"-5" long; leaflets 8-14, elliptic, ovate or oblong, obtuse
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 2. Vicia americana Aluhl. American or Pur- ple Vetch. Pea Vine. Fig. 2614. Vicia americana Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1096. 1803. Perennial, glabrous or with some appressed pubes- cence, trailing or climbing, 2°-3° long. Leaves nearly sessile; stipules broad, foliaceous, triangular- ovate, sharply toothed, 2"-5" long; leaflets 8-14, elliptic, ovate or oblong, obtuse or sometimes emar- ginate and mucronulate at the apex, rounded at the base, 8"-i8" long, 3"-7" wide; peduncles usually shorter than the leaves; racemes loose, 2-9-flowered; flowers bluish-purple, 8"-g" long, spreading; pod short-stalked, glabrous, I'-iJ' long, 4-7-seeded. In moist ground. New Brunswick to Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia, New York, Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona. Leaflets of lower leaves sometimes narrow. Ascends to 3500 ft. in Virginia. May-Aug. Buflfalo-pea. Vicia oregana Nutt. (F. truncata Nutt.), with obovate or oblong leaflets truncate and dentate at the apex, widely distributed in western North America, enters our area in Kansas and Nebraska. 3. Vicia sparsifolia Nutt. Narrow-leaved American Vetch. Fig. 2615. Vicia sparsifolia Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 270. 1838. Lathyrus linearis Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 276. 1838. Fifia americana var. linearis S. Wats. Proc. Am. 11: 134. 1876. Vicia linearis Greene, Fl. Francis. 3. 1891. Perennial, glabrous or nearly so, stems weak, often zigzag, i°-2° long. Leaflets 4-7 pairs, narrowly linear to linear-oblong. g"-iS>" long, i"-2" wide, rather thick, acute or obtusish, the apex not toothed, mucro- nate; stipules 2"-4" fong, half-sagittate, acuminate, their bases prolonged, sometimes dentate; peduncles shorter than the leaves, or about
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