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I. V. hirsuta. — Flores exigui, racemosi, subsecundi, cer- 

 nui vel penduli; scapus solitarius, axillaris, passim folio bre- 

 vior, raro subaequalis, 1-7-11-florus, hirsuto-pilosus; ^jetZi- 

 celli breves, puberulij cahjx cum tubo liirsuto et laciniis 

 subaequalibus, lanceolato-linearibus et acuminato-subulatis 

 vel lineari-subulatis, plerumque tubo longioribus: corolla 

 albida aut pallide coerulescens, calyce longior, carina apice 

 maculis duabus purpureo-coeruleis picta; stamina generis; 

 ovarium elongatum; stylus brevis; stigma obtusum et pube- 

 rulum; legumen parvum, cultriforme, vix rostellatum, rostel- 

 lo rectiusculo, dispermium, ad semina toruloso-tumens et in- 

 ter semina substraugulatum, duas-tres lineas longum, se- 

 squilineam latum, liirsutie brevi tectum, maturum nigrescens, 

 valvis secedentibus, convolutis, abortu monospermium; semi- 

 na grandiuscula, subglobosa, laevia, nunc fusco-flavida et ni- 

 gro-maculata, nunc tota nigrescentia, bylo lineari, latus se- 

 minis subaequante; caulis crassiusculus, prostratus, angula- 

 tus, per cirrhos scandens, fere per totam longitudinem alter- 

 ne ramosus, rarins simplex, glaber aut superne pilosus, spi- 

 thamali-tripedalis, ramis altenus; folia alterna, subsessilia, 

 ima bi-trijuga et foliolis ovatis, parvis; superiora quadri- 

 octojuga et foliolis lanceolatis vel linearibus, foliolis omni- 

 bus retusis cum mucronulo, inter se dissitis, oppositis vel 

 alternis, breviter petiolulatis, glabris aut subpilosis, teneris, 

 supra saturate viridibus, subtus pallentibus, in macrioribus 

 individuis linearibus; cirrhi imi simplices, aristaeformes, bre- 

 ves, recti; reliqui filiformes, simplices vel raraosi, contortu- 

 plicati; petioli supra canaliculati, subtus subcostati, villoso- 

 hirti; stipulae lineares vel lanceolato-lineares; inferiores se- 

 mihastatae, auricula subinde lacinulata, superiores plerum- 

 que indivisae; radix tenuis, ramosa vel simplex. 



Floret Aprili, Majo. 0. 



Aetnae, in liuiiddis et herbosis regionis nemorosae et pe- 

 demontanae: Milo, Zaffarana, Nicolosi, Fireri, Battiati, Ma- 

 scalucia. 



Icon. Fl. Dan. 639 ex Guss. Syn. Fl. Sic. 2. pag. 298. 

 Sturm. Fl. Genn. 1. fig. 32. — Biv. tetr. irr. tah. 54. 



Vicia hirsuta. Koch. Syn. pag. 191. — Bahingt. Manip. 

 pag. 78. — Guss. op. et loc. cit.—Torn. Fl. Sic. pag. 213. 

 Arcang. Comp. della Fl. Ital. pag. 206. 



