624 
lu’tea, 
hy’brida. 
} 
-DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA, Vicia. 
Dicks. b. s.—Facg. mis. ii, 18-E. bot. 30-Fl, dan. 58-Rivs 
tetr. 109. V. minima.—Kniph. 3—Herm. par. 242. 
Stipule not spotted. St. Whole plant hairy except whe S. 
vessels. Root small, fibrous, annual. Stems several, a foot high 
or less ; weak trailing. meek 4 to © pair, aad never more ; Op- 
pe site, the upper ones mostly .spear-shaped. Tendri/s never 
ranched. . Stupule half-arrow-shaped, the 
upper spear-shapedy 
Flowers small, bluish a: Legum. uptighits 
natrow pointed. 
smooth, dotted. Seeds cubic. 
being scarcely longer than the leg the seeds cubic, ane a 
fi 
tendril never branched. Woopwarp. In the fig. of E. bot, 
Fl. dan. and Kniphoffius, the tendrils are wanting; in those of 
Jacquin gn Rivinus they are represented as unbranched, agree- 
able to ward’s observation, but in Dickson’s specimens 
publised in His 4th fasciculus of dried plants, the tendrils are 
‘ branc 
Vicia gn var. y¥ Huns. Ervum soloniense Sp. ple 
Dr. Smith informs us is no other than this plant, and that it 
flowers 
sometimes bears white s. 
Strangle Vetch, or Dry pastures, gravel pits, and 
Tar 
cotificliged in paves ‘andy, and chalky soils.) King’s Park, ~ 
Edinburgh. Lic 
r. St. In the dry — of Hyde Park. Mr. 
Dickson. [Norfolk Mr, Woopwarp. | A. Mays 
V. Legumens sitting, bent ei seman solitary ; with 5 
seeds: standard smooth. 
E, bot. 481~H, OX. ii. 91; TOW, go, . 2-F. Rg. ii, S13s 1. 
Leaves sometimes spear-shaped, sometimes dented. Legume 
hairy or smooth. Svipz/e alternately very entire, or with 3 teeth 
Linn. Leaves either inversely heart-shaped, dented, oblong, oF 
spear-shaped. Flowers sometimes in pairs. Hups, Leaves 
ternate ; /eaftts 3 bia 5 pair, mostly alternate, oblong, blunt, and 
dented, or stra ar-shaped. Szipule spear-shaped, minute. 
Findesls terminating; Teak or divided into 2 or 3. Blass, pale 
yellow. 8. wess. DWARD. ; 
Yellow Vetch. Abo: Weymouth. A. June, July. 
V. Legumens sitting, bent back, hairy, with 5 seeds: stan- 
dard woolly. 
Facq. hort. gas bot. 482-F. B. ii. 314. 1. 
eatly allied to lutea. Leafits inversely egg-sha aped, 
ule 
dented, small, sprinkled ney a Stipule of the stem not 
brown, but entirely green. Flow. vale gi be 2 ish above, 
hairy. In other resneteg ‘accords ga V, lutea. Lins ‘This 
