VICIA HUGERI.
Annual, very slender, bright green, minutely and sparsely pu bescent, or glabrate in age. Stems ascending, decumbent or re clining, solitary or several together, 3-7 dm. long, wire-like, more or less angled, sometimes branched above, rarely branched below ; leaves 4-8 cm. long, the tendril simple or forked ; leaflets usually 10-12, linear, 2-3.5 cm. long, mucronulate, straight or slightly curved, short-petioled ; peduncles 5-8 cm. long, ascending ; flowers white or sometimes pinkish, 10-14 in secund racemes, small ; pedicels 1.5-2 mm. long ; calyx campanulate,1.5 mm. long, the teeth triangular, as long as the tube, acute ; corolla about 5 mm. long; pods linear-oblong, 2 cm. long.
In open woods, Georgia and Alabama. March to May.
Lately several specimens of this peculiar species of Vicia have reached me from different points in the Southern States. The plant first came to my notice on the slopes of Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 1895. The species stands between Vicia Carolanana
and V. nucrantha,possessing the general habit of the latter and the inflorescence of the former.
From Vicia micantha it differs in its elongated many-flowered racemes, longer peduncles and glabrous or glabrate calyx with the segments as broad as long or broader, while from Vicia Caro /imam it can easily be distinguished by its more slender habit, narrower leaves and the smaller flowers, these being hardly one half as large as those of Vida Caroliniana. I take pleasure in naming the species for my friend Mr. A. M. Huger, a very thor ough explorer of the flora of the Southern States. I have speci mens before me as follows : Georgia : Stone Mountain, May 1-18, 1895, J. K. Small ; Americus, March I, 1897; Atlanta, April, 1897, and Gainesville, April, 1897, A. M. Huger.
Alabama: Auburn, March 28 and April 18, 1896, L. M. Under wood and F. S. Earle.