7 or alternate; stipules often toothed at base. 
Viburnum—continued. à 
V. T. hirtum (hairy)  /. appearing in autumn, and persistent 
through the winter. Z oval-oblong, hairy beneath and on the 
margins. . 
V. T. lucidum (clear-leaved).* fl. and cymes larger than in the 
type. Spring. J. also larger, ovate-oblong, glabrous, shining. 
Mount Atlas. There is a form having leaves more or less varie- 
gated with white. 
V. T. strictum (erect) A variety of somewhat erect and fas. 
tigiate habit. Gardens. There is also a variegated sub-variety. 
V. T. virgatum (twiggy). l. oblong-lanceolate, pilose below and 
on the margins. Italy. 
VICIA (the old Latin name used by Virgil, &e.). 
Tare; Vetch. Including Ervum. Faba is also included, 
by the authors of the “Genera Plantarum,’ under 
this genus, but is kept distinct in this work. ORD. 
Leguminose. A genus comprising about 100 species of 
mostly hardy, annual or perennial herbs, of variable 
habit, dispersed over North temperate regions and South 
America. Flowers often blue, violet, or yellowish-white, 
axillary, racemose; calyx teeth sub-equal, or the lower 
longer; standard obovate or oblong, emarginate; wings 
adnate to the keel; bracts very caducous. Pods com- 
pressed, two-valved, Leaves abruptly pinnate; leaflets 
usually numerous, entire or toothed at the tip; petiole 
often ending in a tendril. The following species are 
British: V. angustifolia, V. bithynica, V. Cracca, V. hirsuta 
(Common Tare), V. lathyroides, V. lutea, V. Orobus (Bitter 
Vetch), V. sativa (Common Vetch; Fitch; Fitches), V. 
sepium, V. sylvatica (Wood Vetch), V. tetrasperma. Y. 
hybrida and V. levigata, formerly found in England, are 
now extinct. V. sativa is extensively grown as fodder for 
cattle. Few of the species are of any horticultural value. 
Those described below are of simple culture in common 
garden soil. They may be’ increased by seeds, the peren- 
nials also by divisions. 
V. argentea (silvery.* fl. pinkish, the tip of the keel spotted 
with black, secund, rather’ loose; peduncles many-flowered. 
June. I cinereous-silvery, without tendrils; leaflets oblong- 
linear, mucronate. Stem tetragonal. A. lft. Pyrenees, 1827: 
Perennial. (B. M. 2946.) ` 
V. atropurpurea, (dark-purple)  /. purple, secund, approxi: 
mate; calyx teeth bristly ; peduncles many-flowered, scarcely as 
long as the leaves. June. l., leaflets oblong, mucronate, opposite 
; Stem tetragonal. 
. ^. 3ft. Algiers, . A villous annual. (B. R. 871.) °: 
b apes (Cracca) Cow Vetch ; Tutet Vetch. A bright. blue, 
"gin. long, drooping ` racemes dense, ten hirty-flowered, uni- 
lateral; peduncles longer than the leaves. June to August. 
1. lin. to 4in. ] sessile, linear-oblong, acute or mucronate. 
Stems 2ft. to 6ft. long, scandent or diffuse. Europe (Britain). 
Perennial. (F. D. 804; Sy. En. B. 385.) 
V; eau (Galega-leaved). A synonym of Swainsona gale- 
H 
V, lathyroides (Lathyrus-like). Spring Vetch ; Sege Tare. 
Jt. lilac-coloured, solitary, sessile, lin. to jin. long; calyx teeth 
subulate. May and June. Z. jin. lin. lo: 
three pairs, linear-oblong or obovate, acute, obtuse, or notched. 
Stem 6in. to 8in. long, spreading. Europe (Britain), A hairy 
annual, (Sy. En. B. 395.) 
V. onobrychioides (Onobrychis-like).* d purple, distant; calyx 
teeth lanceolate ; peduncles very long, many-flowered. June. 
l. numerous, linear, alternate or opposite, obtuse or mucronulate. 
Stem striated. 
42; B. M. 2206.) 
V. oroboides (Orobus-like) f. of a very beautiful blue, usually 
three or four racemes standing together; peduncles many- 
flowered, axillary. June. I, leaflets ovate, mucronate. A. lft. 
to 2ft. Siberia,1758. Perennial. SYN. Orobus lathyroides (B. M. 
V. pol (many-seeded). fl. pale blue, erect, loosely 
racemose ; calyx teeth unequal; peduncles eight to ten-flowered, 
and longer than the leaves. June. fr., pods linear-lanceolate, 
fourteen to twenty-seeded. Z., leaflets fourteen to sixteen, ovate- 
. oblong, obtuse, entire, mucronate, glabrous.  Tendrils decom- 
po’ tems 6ft. to 8ft. long, much-branched. Naples, 1833. 
Climbing annual. (S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 274.) 
dagger). fl. of a fine purple, large, secund, 
posed andel racemes, May. IL, leaflets 
linear, bluntish, mucronulate, rather "Y. beneath. Stem tetra- 
calyx teeth unequal; 
V. tenuifolia (slender-leaved). fi. violet ; 
. racemes clustered, secund ; les many-flowered, longer 
; leaflets two or . 
h. 2ft. South Europe, 1759. Annual (A. F. P. 
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Vicia—continued. i 
than the leaves. June. /., leaflets linear, alternate or opposite, ` 
nearly glabrous, mucronate. Stems branched. h, NAR Germany 
and Tauria, 1799. Climbing perennial. (B. M. 2141.) 
VI RIA (named after Her Majesty Queen Victoria). 
ORD. mpheacee. A monotypic genus. The species—a 
gigantic, handsome, prickly, aquatic, stove herb, with a 
thick rhizome —is one of most remarkable productions 
of the vegetable kingdom. It is found, growing in still 
water of about 4ft. to 6ft. in depth, in equinoctial America. 
The peculiar formation of the under surface of the leaves 
imparts to them great buoyancy—snfiicient, for instance, to 
withstand the weight of a good-sized child sitting in a 
chair, provided, by means of a flat board, the pressure be 
equally distributed over the whole of the leaf. In this 
‘country, at any rate, it is best to treat the Victoria as 
an annual, as it is difficult to keep alive during dull, 
sunless weather in winter. The seeds—which should be 
kept in a vessel of water until ready for sowing—should 
be placed in loamy soil, and the pot containing them 
submerged a couple of inches in a “nursery” tank of 
water, the temperature of which should not be allowed 
to fall below 85deg. The tank, too, should be in as light 
a position, and as near the glass, as possible. It is de- 
sirable to sow the seeds in January, and as soon as 
the seedlings appear, prick them singly into small pots, ` 
gradually shifting into larger pots as the plants grow 
stronger. About the beginning of May, the best plant 
will probably be ready to place out in the large tank. 
Two or three cartloads of good, strong loam, with a 
good proportion of rotted cowdung, will be necessary to 
enable the plant to attain its full size. After it is fairly 
established, the temperature of the water may be allowed 
to fall to 80deg., but not below. All the sunlight possible 
is needed to keep the plant in robust health, so the 
house in which it is grown should not be artificially 
shaded in any way. Where it is practicable to maintain 
the water of a large tank at the temperature above 
mentioned, the Victoria may be grown in the open air 
in places sheltered from the wind, which has—except 
“under such conditions—too much power on the upturned 
» edges of the huge leaves. The illustration represents a 
plant in the open, surrounded by hardy subjects. 
Ce 5 as 982 
Mis. Wales Maize 9 Weter Pinter. Pi co gin a p lon 
— deeply quadrifid, the tube tawny, very prickly, turbinate, 
adnate with the ovary, the segments purple-brown, concave, 
deciduous, rather shorter than the petals; torus annular; petals 
very numerous, the outer ones white, spreading, oblong, concave, ` 
obtuse, the inner ones gradually passing into filaments and 
becoming deeply coloured with purple or full rose; perfect 
incurved below, the rest erect; uncles or scapes 
longer than the petiole, and rising above the surface of the water 
when in flower, terete, prickly, sometimes lin. in diameter, 
single-flowered. Summer. fr. a large, cyathiform, truncate, fleshy, 
een, prickly berry, ing many oval, very dark brown seeds. 
. usually floating, 4ft. to 64ft. in diameter, at first. oval with a 
deep, narrow cleft or sinus at one end, at last almost exactly 
orbicular, peltate, flat, but having a turned-up ma 2in, to Sin. 
broad; upper side full green, reticulated ç nader HE 
le, sometimes green, ngy-pubescent, copiously vei 
cae or less boost With ase and horny, subulate prickles ; 
petioles terete, radical, ge yer? mær hizome thick. 1838. 
See Fig. 172, p. 158. (B. M. ; 
VICTORIAN DOGWOOD. See Prostanthera 
lasianthos. 
VICTORIAN HAZEL. See Pomaderris apetala. | 
VICTORIPERREA. A synonym of Freycinetia 
(which see). ; M E) 
VIEUSSEUXIA. Included under Morea (which see). 
VIGIERA. A synonym of Escallonia (which see). 
VIGNA (named after Dominic Vigni, Professor at 
Padua, who wrote a commentary on Theophrastus, in 
1625). Syns. Callicysthus, Scytalis. ORD. Leguminose. 
A genus. embracing about thirty species of stove, green- 
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house, or hardy, twining or prostrate herbs, inhabiting 
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