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Vicia villosa Both, HAIRY VETCH, European, annual or biennial, occa- 

 sionally grown for fodder, and sometimes persistent for a few seasons in cul- 

 tivated ground, is a hairy vine about 2 long, its leaves with 5-9 pairs of 

 oblong or linear leaflets, its numerous blue flowers about 8" long, in stalked, 

 axillary racemes, the claw of the standard about one half as long as the blade, 

 the flat, oblong, few-seeded pod about 1' long. 



Vicia Faba L., BROAD BEAN, WINDSOR BEAN, PORTUGUESE BEAN, native 

 of Asia or northern Africa, grown for its edible seeds, is a nearly erect, nearly 

 glabrous annual, its leaves with 2-6 oblong or 'elliptic leaflets 2'-3' long; the 

 axillary whitish flowers have a dark blue blotch on the standard; the fleshy 

 pods are 3' long or more. 



Pisum sativum L., PEA, of unknown origin, is grown to some extent in 

 gardens for its seeds, and its vines for fodder. 



Arachis hypogaea L., PEANUT, EARTHNUT, probably South American, is 

 locally grown in gardens, but is not an important crop in Bermuda. 



Clitoria Ternatea L., BLUE PEA, tropical African, widely naturalized in 

 the West Indies is a climbing vine, commonly planted on porches and walls, 

 has pinnate leaves of few ovate blunt leaflets and large solitary showy blue 

 flowers, short-stalked in the axils; its flat pods are 3' or 4' long. 



Lefroy records the successful introduction of Clitoria brasiliensis L., 

 PURPLE-FLOWERING PEA of Brazil, now referred to the genus Bradburya. 



Lathyrus odoratus L., SWEET PEA, Sicilian, is widely grown in flower- 

 gardens; it is an herbaceous, annual vine, the leaves of one pair of leaflets 

 and a branched tendril, the showy flowers white, red, blue or yellow. 



Lathyrus latifolius L., BROAD-LEAVED EVERLASTING PEA, European, a 

 perennial vine, the leaves with 2 large oblong-lanceolate leaflets and a branched 

 tendril, the stem and petioles winged, the showy flowers white to purple, is 

 occasional in gardens. 



Genista hispanica L., SPANISH GENISTA, European, seen in the collection 

 at the Agricultural Station in 1913, is a low, very spiny shrub, with villons 

 branches, simple lanceolate acute leaves about A' long, the flowers in short 

 racemes. 



Colutea arborescens L., BLADDER SENNA, of the Mediterranean region, is 

 recorded by Lefroy as raised from seed and flowered at Hamilton prior to 

 1877. It is a large shrub, with pinnate leaves of 9-13 elliptic leaflets which 

 are 1' long or less, yellow flowers in small racemes, and inflated pods 2 '-3' long, 

 narrowed at both ends. 



Adenocarpus commutatus Guss., of southern Europe, grown by Lefroy at 

 Mt. Langton from 1874 to 1877, is a pubescent shrub with 3-foliolate leaves 

 and yellow racemose flowers, the pod flat and glandular. [A. telounensis DC.] 



Cytisus Laburnum L., GOLDEN-CHAIN, European, occasionally planted for 

 ornament, has not become luxuriant. It is a small tree, up to 25 high, with 

 3-foliolate, petioled leaves and long pendent racemes of bright yellow flowers. 

 [Laburnum vulgare Griseb.] 



Cytisus albus (Lam.) Link, WHITE CYTISUS, of the Mediterranean region, 

 grown at Wood Haven in 1914, is a shrub, '2-3 high, with long slender branches, 

 the petioled, 3-foliolate, clustered leaves less than V long, the leaflets obovate, 

 sessile, appressed-pubescent ; its white flowers are about 5" long, its pods 

 usually with 2 seeds. [Genista alba Lam.] 



Cytisus canariensis L., GARDEN GENISTA, of the Canary Islands, a finely 

 pubescent shrub 4-6 high, with petioled 3-foliolate leaves about \' long, the 

 leaflets obovate, blunt, cuneate, the yellow flowers racemose, is occasionally 

 grown for ornament. 



