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Var. segetalis Thuill. Usually regarded as the type, has 

 obcordate or oblong-lanceolate leaflets. III. i. Queen of Spain's 

 Chair ! ii. Palmones Pinar ! 



Var. Bohartii Forst. Upper leaves or all with narrow linear 

 leaflets. Perez Lara takes this as the type. III. ii. Waterfall ! 

 My 1998 is a very narrow-leafleted form ! 



V. hyhrkla L. Cultivated or waste places and roadsides ; 

 occasional or rare; 3-5. Closely resembles V. lutea, but standard 

 villous on back, and leaflets usually truncate or retuse. I. Wk, 

 Foot of Mediterranean Steps ! III. i. Foot of San Roque, D. 



V. lutea L. Similar places ; occasional ; 3-5. Flowers very 

 pale yellowish, rarely slightly washed with violet, standard 

 glabrous, leaflets acute or acuminate, not retuse. Only the 

 var. is recorded by Debeaux. I. Above Willis's ! Sandpits ! 

 III. i. Near Linea Cemetery ! About Almoraima ! 



Var. hirta Boiss. Much more pilose, with longer denser 

 hairs on pods. III. i. or ii. Cultivated and sandy fields by 

 Guadarranque, D. 



V. vestita Boiss. Mostly in cultivated fields and railway 

 banks; frequent, 3-5. Flowers not yellow as described, but rather 

 dark purple, wings and back of standard dull yellowish. III. ! 



fVar. tiiherculata Wk. Pod with large scattered tubercles 

 bearing long white hairs. This only is recorded by Debeaux, 

 though the type is more common. III. i. Marshy places in sand 

 desert, D. ii. Algeciras, Winkl. My 662 from railside may 

 be this. 



t V. onobrychioides L. Wooded slopes ; rare ; 5-6. A climbing 

 perennial, with long peduncles bearing 6-12 large violet flowers, 

 with paler keels, calyx tube straight, pod long, 5-10-seeded. 

 III. ii. Near Algeciras, Winkl. 



\V. cassubica L. Similar places; rare; 6-7. Like last but 

 erect, with more numerous flowers on peduncles shorter than 

 leaves, pod short, rhomboid, 2-3-seeded. III. i. About San 

 Eoque, Brouss., Lag., Durand. 



f V. tenuifolia Roth. Shady ravines ; rare ; 5-6. Perennial, 

 calyx tube obliquely truncate or rounded at base, not saccate. 

 Very like V. Cracca but stouter, peduncles longer than racemes, 

 the whole longer than leaf, flowers pale blue, limb of standard 

 longer than claw. III. i. South slopes of San Roque, D. 



V. Cracca L. Woods and bushy places ; locally frequent ; 

 4-7. Flowers shorter, violet blue, standard shorter, limb as long 

 as claw, peduncles shorter than or equalling raceme, the whole 

 rarely longer and often shorter than leaf. III. i. Near Almo- 

 raima! Long Stables Ravine I ii. M. de la Torre! Mountain 

 Valleys 1 A white flowered form occurs ! 



V. varia Host. Wooded and bushy places ; rare ; 4-6. Near 

 last, but annual or biennial, calyx saccate at base, corolla larger, 

 violet, with wings paler or whitish, standard shorter than claw. 

 III. i. Almoraima, P. L. About San Roque, Boiss. 1 



V. villosa Roth. Similar places ; rare ; 5-7. Very near last, 

 but flowers opening in succession from bottom, not all simul- 



