274 DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Latbyrus. 



distinct. Anth. small, roundish. Germ, linear-oblong, 

 compressed. Style ascending, flattened vertically, di- 

 lated upwards, acute at the point. Stigma longitudinal, 

 downy, running along the dilated upper half of the style. 

 Legume long, either cylindrical or compressed, pointed, 

 of 1 cell, and 2 rather rigid valves. Seeds several, round- 

 ish, or angular. 

 A numerous herbaceous genus, annual or perennial. Stem 

 climbing, by means of the ienchils terminating the foot- 

 stalks. Leaflets 2 or more, entire, rarely altogether want- 

 ing ; leaves very rarely simple. Stipidas mostly arrow- 

 shaped, and rather large ; seldom very small. FL stalk- 

 ed, axillary, either solitary, in pairs, or in clusters ; either 

 crimson, purplish, blue, or yellow. The herbage com- 

 monly affords good fodder ; the seeds are scarcely used 

 for any purpose. 



* Flowers mostly solitary. 



1. L. Aphaca, Yellow Vetchling. 



Stalks single-flowered. Tendrils without leaves. Stipulas 

 between heart- and arrow-shaped. 



L. Aphaca. Linn. Sp. PL 1029. mild. v. 3. 1077. FL Br. 763. 

 EngL Bot. V. 17. f. 1 167. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. ^.51. Purl. v. 1. 

 339.^.3. 



L. n. 442. Hall. Hist. v.\.]9\. 



Vicia lutea foliis convolvuli minoris. Bauh. Pin. 345. Moris, v. 2. 

 62.sect.2.t.4.f.7. 



V. qufe Pitine Anguillarae, lata siliqutl, flore luteo. Baiih. Hist. 

 y. 2. 416./. 417. 



Aphaca. Rail Sijn. 320. Mill. Ic. 29. t. 43. Ger. Em. 1250./. 

 Lob. Ic. V. 2. 70. f. Dod. Pempt. 545./. 



Orobanche legumen. Dalech. Hist. 484. 



In the borders of sandy or gravelly fields, but rarely. 



In Cambridgeshire. Relhan. Oxfordshire. Sibth. About Totten- 

 ham and Enfield. Curt. In a gravel pit between Norwich and 

 Brooke. Mrs. KetL Near Forncet, Norfolk. Mr. J. Fox. 



Annual. June — August. 



A little, smooth, pale glaucous green herb, branching from the 

 root into several weak stems, either procumbent, or climbing by 

 means of numerous, alternate, simple tendrils, each of which 

 springs from between a pair of large stipulas, of a broad arrow- 

 shape, nearly entire. There are no true leaves or leajlets, ex- 

 cept that now and then, on young plants, near the root, a pair 

 of an elliptical shape, on one or two rudiments of tendrils, very 

 rarely on a Teal tendril, may be observed. But these soon 



