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VlCIA ONOBRYCHIOIDES. SAINT-FOIN VETCH. 



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 Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Stigma latere inferiore transverse barbatum. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Vicia onobrychioides ; pedunculis multifloris folio longioribus, 

 floribus distantibus, foliolis linearibus, stipulis semisa- 

 g-ittatis lineari lanceolatis basi dentatis. Willd. Sp. PL 3. 

 p. 1099. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 312. 



Vicia onobrychioides; pedunculis multifloris,, floribus distanti- 

 bus, foliolis linearibus, stipulis inferne denticulatis. Sp. 

 PL 1036. Allion. pedem. n. 1198. t. 42./. 1. Desfont. 

 Atl. 2. p. 163. De Cand. Flor. franc. 4. p. 591. 



Vicia foliis ellipticis, floribus racemosis erectis, stipulis argute 

 dentatis. Hall. Hist. n. 425. 



Vicia onobrychidis flore. Bauh. Pin. 345. — prodr. 149. 



Descr. Root annual. Stems climbing-, square. Leaves 

 pinnate, terminated with a branched tendril : leaflets linear, 

 obtuse, mucrouate, from ten to fourteen. Stipules semisa- 

 gittate, toothed at the base; superior ones frequently cuspidate. 

 Peduncles axillary, twice the length of the leaves. Flowers 

 in a secund raceme, large, distant. Calyx bilabiate : teeth 

 acute, those of the lower lip longer than the upper. Vexillum 

 much longer than the ate and carina. Stamens all united. 

 Germen linear, straight, many-seeded. Style rising at a right 

 angle. Stigma obovate, hairy all round. 



Vicia onobrychioides resembles Vicia Cracea in habit and 

 foliage, but is at once distinguished from it by the much 

 greater size and paucity of the blossoms, and by the propor- 

 tionate shortness of the ate. In as much as the stigma is 



hairy 



