284 DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Vicia. 



6. V. lutea. Rough-podded Yellow Vetch. 



Flowers solitary, very nearly sessile. Standard smooth. 

 Legumes reflexed, hairy. Stems diffuse. Stipulas ovate, 

 pointed, coloured. 



V. lutea. Liwn.Sp.PZ. 1037. fFi/W.v.3. 1107. FI.Bt.772. Engl. 



Bot.v.7.t.48l. Hook. Scot. 215. Land. t. 74. 

 V. luteo floi-e sylvestris. Bauh. Hist. v. 2.313./; but not perhaps 



of Ray. 

 V. sylvestris lutea, siliqua hirsuta, nondum descripta, Bauh. 



Pin. 345. 

 V. flora luteo pallido, siliquis propendentibus hirsutis. Moris, v. 2. 



62, under n. 4. sect. 2.t.2\.f. 



On stony ground, chiefly near the sea. 



At Orford, Sufl'olk, upon the pebbly beach. Mr. Humphrey. At 

 Aldborough. Rev. Mr. Burroughes, Near Weymouth. Huds. 

 Shoreham, Sussex, Mr. Borrer. Mearns-shire, North Britain. 

 Prof. Beattie. In a chalk-pit on the side of Glastonbury Tor-hill. 

 Mr. D. Turiier. 



Perennial. August. 



Root creeping, divided at the crown into many branches. Stems 

 several, spreading on the ground in every direction, scarcely 

 branched, except at the bottom, from 1 to 2 feet in length, 

 slender, angular, smooth, striated, leafy. Leiiflets numerous, 

 opposite or scattered, elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes abrupt j 

 hairy beneath. Tendrils long, branched. Stipulas small, ovate, 

 or somewhat triangular, pointed, marked with a blood- red, or 

 almost black, central spot, generally spreading over the whole ; 

 often having a slight, direct, not reflexed, tooth at their base. 

 Fl. very nearly sessile, erect, much larger than the leaflets, of a 

 pale sulphur-colour striped with grey ; rarely all over ash-co- 

 loured, or white. Cal. tubular, pale green, smooth. Standard 

 perfectly smooth. Legume bent downwards as it ripens, ovate- 

 oblong, slightly tumid, 1^ inch long and •§ an inch broad, all 

 over rough with short rigid hairs arising from small tubercles. 

 Seeds 5 or 6, oval, smooth. 



That this Vetch grows on Glastonbury Tor-hill, as well as the fol- 

 lowing, has been ascertained by Mr. Turner. 



Some of its branches are entirely subterraneous, producing co- 

 lourless, apparently imperkct, flower-buds, which nevertheless 

 form seeds. Of this curious fact there are several examples 

 among various exotic species of Vicia and Lathyrus. 



7. V.hybrida. Hairy-flowered Yellow Vetch. 



Flowers solitary, almost sessile. Standard hairy. Legumes 

 reflexed, hairy. Stems ascending. Leaflets abrupt. Sti- 

 pulas ovate, unstained. 



