PAPILIUNACEAE 119 



Vicia hirsutissima, Ten. Fl. NajJ. 5. pag, 119. 



— Var. catinensis. — Planta parce ramosa; foliola an- 

 gusto-linearia ac dense villosa, villis longis et albis. 

 Aetnae, una cum specie, prope Catanam. 



5. V. angustifolia.— F^ores grandiusculi, axillares, solitarii 

 aut gemini, erecti, pedunculati, raro subsessiles; scapus li- 

 neari - sesquilinearis; calijx tubulosus, longus, nervosus, pu- 

 bescens, pilosus aut glaber, laciniis omnibus subaequalibus, 

 lanceolato-linearibus, acuminato - subulatis, erectis, striatis, 

 tubo brevioribus aut subaequalibus; corolla calyce duplo lon- 

 gior, purpureo-coeriilescens vel rosea; vexillum emarginatum, 

 snbinde mucronulatura; alae coloratae, ungue albo; carina a- 

 lis brevior, curvatura dorsali purpurea et ungue bipedo; sfa- 

 mina et ovarium generis; st?//ns sub apice antice barbatus; 

 legumen angustum, cultriforme, incurve rostratum, a sex li- 

 neis ad pollicem longum et a sesquilinea ad duas lineas la- 

 tum, puberulum aut glabrum, polyspermium, raaturitate ni- 

 grum, valvis siccando contortis, inter semen et semen villo 

 septatis; semina parva, snbglobosa, livida, fusco - maculata 

 vel tota fusca; caulis gracilis, angulatus, prostratus aut de- 

 cumbens vel cirrhis scadens, glaber aut pilosus aut pubescens, 

 inferne ramosus, rarais patulis, spithamali-sesquipedalis; fo- 

 lia inferiora et subinde tantum ima bi-trijuga, foliolis ob- 

 cordatis, his proxima foliolis oblongis, obtusis vel retusis, 

 superiora subsexjuga, foliolis lanceolatis aut lanceolato - li- 

 nearibus, acutis, omnibus mucronulatis, pubescentibus, pilosis 

 aut glabris, inter se remotis, alternis vel oppositis; petioli 

 tenues, pubescentes, sulcati; racJiis apice cirrhosus, cirrhis fili- 

 formibus, tenuibus, inferioribus simplicibns et uncinatis aut in- 

 volutis, superioribus ramosis, uncinatis aut contortuplicatis; 

 stiimlae exiguae, semihastatae;, argute et inaequaliter dentatae, 

 subinde lacinulatae, macula atro-purpurea notatae et veluti 

 inustae; radix tenuis, ramosa, longa, simplex et fibrillosa. 



Floret Aprili, Majo. 0. 



Aetnae, in vulcanicis herbosis regionis pedemontanae: Leu- 

 catea, Battiati, Gravina. 



Icon. Riv. tetr. irr. tab. 35. 



Vicia angustifolia. Roth. Fl. Germ. 1. pag. 310. — Willd. 

 Sp. Pl. 3. pag. 1105. — Seb. et Maur. Fl. Rom. Prodr. pa- 

 gina 246.—Guss. Syn. Fl. Sic. 2.pag.286.—Torn. Fl. Sic. 



