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ing, but not black. The style is hairy all round, though 
not in a great degree, for some way below the extremity, 
not bearing a thick tuft at the very apex, as in the fol- 
lowing species, and as is usual in the genus. This, and 
the last, are intermediate in character and habit between 
Vicia and Lathyrus, and approach too closely, by the 
former, to Orobus. 
316. (3.) Vicia pallida (Hook. et Arn.); pubescenti-pilosa, 
caule gracili, foliolis 10-12 lineari-lanceolatis mucronatis 
alternis oppositisque, cirrhis ramosis, stipulis semisagit- 
tato-linearibus, pedunculis 3-7-floris folium fere duplo 
superantibus, floribus laxis secundis (luteis), dentibus 
 calycinis inzequalibus superioribus latioribus lateralibus 
lanceolatis paullo brevioribus, inferiore subulato sub- 
eequante, vexillo late obcordato, carina ad medium 
curvata, stylis apice dense barbatis, germine glaberrimo.— 
Valparaiso, Mr. Cruckshanks; Bridges ; Cuming (N. 418 
and 590.)—Closely allied as is this species to V: Cracca, 
it is surely quite distinct: in V. Cracca, the upper 
teeth of the calyx are almost obsolete, the vexillum is 
linear-oblong and slightly panduriform when expanded, 
the sides of the upper portion only acutely bent back; 
there also the carina is not bent, until within less than a 
fourth of itslength from the apex; hence the whole flower . 
has a narrow, almost cylindrical appearance. 
317. (4. Vicia graminea, Sm. in Rees’ Cycl.—Meadows, 
Buenos Ayres, T'weedie.—8g. robustior, foliolis lato-line- 
aribus retusis cum mucrone.—Marshy meadows of Bu- 
enos Ayres, Tweedie.—y. pauciflora, foliolis angustis (ut 
in «.), racemis bifloris folio longioribus.—V. pauciflora, 
Gill. mst.—Mountains of San Luis and Mendoza, Dr. 
Gillies.—93. multiflora, foliolis angustis (ut in «.), stipulis 
pauce subulato-dentatis, racemis laxis sub-7-floris folio 
duplo longioribus.—Buenos Ayres, Dr. Gillies.—In all 
| these, there seem never to be more than six leaflets; in 
«. and £. the racemes are usually 3—4,- very rarely 5- 
flowered, and not exceeding the leaf; the stipules are 
also entire. We have marked above how the var. y. and 2. 
