285 
Vicia peregrina, L. 
Between Turica and Kopriva, blue and white solitary flowers, 
and hairy fruits, 2-5-17, Turrill, 139. . 
Distr, S. Eur., N. Afr., Orient. 
Balkans: General. 
Vicia grandiflora, Scop. 
8-10 km. north of Salonika, large white flowers, 13-4-17, 
Turrill, 41; seeds collected near Mirova, 9-6-17, flowered at 
Kew, 5-6-18, Turrill (seed-number), 46. 
Distr. §.-E. Eur., Orient. 
Balkans: General. 
Vicia grandiflora, Scop., var. sordida, Griseb. 
Struma Plain and Krusa Balkan, in flower, 5-18, Harris, 294. 
DMstr. §.-E. Eur., Asia Minor. 
Balkans: General. 
Vicia grandiflora, Scop., var. sordida, Griseb., mutant 
dissecta, T'urrill. 
Seed collected near Karamudli, 26-6-17, flowered at Kew, 
5-6-18, Turrill (seed-number), 57. ; 
Both typical Vicia grandiflora, Scop., and the variety sordida 
are abundant in Macedonia. The latter is distinguished by its 
narrower leaflets. Both the type and the variety vary in the 
colour of the flowers from a lemon-yellow to white, more or 
less shaded and streaked with dull violet. Three forms of the 
species are given by Beck (in Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., xaii; p: 
187), whose views seem most acceptable, viz. :—- 
me ca. With nearly or quite rounded leaflets. 
B sordida. With. the  leafiets mostly oblong or 
linear-oblong. 
y Biebersteinti. With the leaflets narrowly linear and 
10-12 times as long as broad. 
Seeds of both a and 8 were collected in Macedonia in 1917, 
and plants grown from them flowered at Kew in June, (1918. 
The plants of the var. sordida had many of the leaflets variously 
and conspicuously incised, yet to the best of my recollection 
the parent plant had the leafiets quite entire. 
The records of the appearance of forms with divided leaflets 
of V. grandiflora and of its ally V. Barbazitae indicate that this 
variation is uncommon and sporadic. There is no specimen 
showing it at Kew or the British Museum. 
In Coienias's Flora Orientalis, II., 573, V. sordida, W.K., 
is considered synonymous with V. grandiflora, Scop., and under 
this latter a variety y dissecta is described as follows: ** Fohola 
foliorum inferiorum profunde incisa,’” and is given as having 
its habitat “in sylvaticis montis Mesogis Cariae supra Tralles. 
This is almost certainly our plant. Boissier also describes (l.c. 
. 574), a variety of V. Barbazitae, Ten. et Guss., with divided 
leaflets, var. incisa, Boiss., ere praesertim inferiora 
xs. 
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