DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA, Vicia. 623 
the same colour with those of vars 1. It is clearly a variety of 
+ Sativa, as it may be traced through all its sta apes f oe its 
smallest size up to the largest plants of V. sativa. OM oDW. 
Stems scored, undivided. Tendrils 3-cleft. Leafits of the lower 
leaves heart-shaped, 2 or 3 pair; those of the upper 4 or 5 pair, 
strap-shaped, blunt at the end, the mid-rib lengthened out inte 
a ete point. hike a Seeds 10 
« Hu 
nearly sitting, about 2 topes, ex expanding rl i in- 
strap-shaped. FY. ox. AT 
hotover, and divers éther places. Ray. [In the lanes in 
_ the valleys of Dartmoor.] A. May. 
V. Legumens mostly 4 together, upright : leafits egg- se’pium. 
shaped, very entire, the outer ones gradually smalle er. 
Kniph. 5-Riv. tetr. 56, V. sepinm—Fl. dan. 699-Wale.- 
Trag. 624-7. B. ii. 313. 2-Ger. 1052. 1. and em. 12276 
2—Fuchs. 110—Matth. 547—Anderson—Lonic. i, 248. 1. 
Sime mostly 4 flowers. Linn. Stems u t. Leaves alternate, 
winged ; /eafits age pec igain coos +3 mid-rib 
i 1ed out a pr ojecting paint Stipule half-arrow- 
equal, Bat. dirty purple. Mr. Woonw. Cal, rough with 
(3) Flowers solitary, nearly sitting. 
V. — solitary, upright, smooth + leafits about 6,lathyroi’des. 
lower ones inversely heart-shaped : stipule half- 
arrow-shaped, wats entire: seeds cubic, warty. 
E. bot, 
Soc, 
i vatasinic to all kinds of cattle, it is difficult to cultivate on a large 
scale the seeds being generally devoured by the laryze of a Le Spee ies of Ate 
"elabus, which larvae are the prey of a species of Ichne 
