8. L. leptostàchya, Gray. Clothed with appressed silky pubescence; stems often branched, slender; _leaflets linear_ to narrowly oblong; _spikes slender, somewhat loosely-flowered_, on peduncles as long as the leaves; _pod ovate, small_ (1½´´ long), _about equalling the calyx_, densely pubescent.--Ill., Iowa, and Minn. § 2. _Stipules and bracts broad and scarious; calyx-lobes broad; annual._ L. STRIÀTA, Hook. & Arn. Diffusely branched, decumbent, subpubescent; petioles very short; leaflets oblong-obovate, 6´´ long or less; peduncles very short, 1--5-flowered; pod small, little exceeding the calyx.--Common in the Southern States, extending into Mo. (Nat. from E. Asia.) 29. STYLOSÁNTHES, Swartz. Calyx early deciduous; tube slender and stalk-like; limb unequally 4--5-cleft, the lower lobe more distinct. Corolla and monadelphous stamens inserted at the summit of the calyx-tube; standard orbicular; keel incurved. Anthers 10, the 5 longer ones fixed near their base, and the 5 alternate shorter ones fixed by the middle. Style filiform, its upper part falling off after flowering, the lower part incurved or hooked, persistent on the 1--2-jointed small and short reticulated pod; the lower joint when present empty and stalk-like.--Low perennials, branched from the base, with wiry stems, pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, the sheathing stipules united to the petiole, no stipels, and small, yellow flowers in terminal heads or short spikes. (Name composed of στύλος, _a column_, and ἄνθος, _a flower_, from the stalk-like calyx-tube.) 1. S. elàtior, Swartz. Tufted; leaflets lanceolate, strongly straight-veined; heads or clusters small and few-flowered.--Pine barrens, Long Island and N. J. to Fla., west to S. Ind., Kan., and Ark. 30. VÍCIA, Tourn. VETCH. TARE. Calyx 5-cleft or 5-toothed, the 2 upper teeth often shorter, or the lowest longer. Wings of the corolla adhering to the middle of the keel. Stamens more or less diadelphous (9 and 1); the orifice of the tube oblique. Style filiform, hairy all round or only on the back at the apex. Pod flat, 2-valved, 2--several-seeded. Seeds globular. Cotyledons very thick, remaining under ground in germination.--Herbs, mostly climbing more or less by the tendril at the end of the pinnate leaves. Stipules half-sagittate. Flowers or peduncles axillary. (The classical Latin name.) [*] _Annual; flowers 1 or 2 in the axils, nearly sessile, large, violet-purple._ V. SATÌVA, L. (COMMON VETCH or TARE.) Somewhat pubescent; stem simple; leaflets 5--7 pairs, varying from obovate-oblong to linear, notched and mucronate at the apex; pod linear, several-seeded.--Cultivated fields and waste places, N. Eng. to N. J. and southward, west to Mich. and Minn.--Var. ANGUSTIFÒLIA, Seringe, has longer and narrow leaflets. (Adv. from Eu.) [*][*] _Annual, slender; peduncles elongated; flowers small._