84 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I—VICIA HIRSUTA. Koch. 
Pirate CCCLXXXII. 
Bab. Man, Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 82. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 114. Benth. 
Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 177. “ries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 46. 
Ervum hirsutum, Zinn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 970. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. 
ed. ii. p. 218. 
Cracca minor, “ Riv.” Gr. & Godr, Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 475. 
Annual. Leaves with 6 to 10 pairs of strap-shaped or 
oblong-linear leaflets, truncate-emarginate, and apiculate at the 
apex; common petiole terminating in a branched tendril. 
Lower stipules laciniate, the upper ones simple. Peduncles equal 
to or shorter than the leaves, 2- to 6-flowered. Calyx-tube not 
gibbous on the upper side; teeth nearly equal, subulate, a little 
longer than the tube. Corolla not twice as long as the calyx. 
Pods reflexed, sessile within the calyx, oblong, compressed, 
obliquely truncate at the apex, abruptly acuminated into a short 
beak terminating the upper suture, generally hairy. Seeds 2, 
compressed, globular, with the hilum linear, one-third the cireum- 
ference of the seed. 
A weed in cultivated ground, and in hedges and waste places. 
Very common and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to Autumn. 
Stem weak, branched or simple, climbing, 1 to 2 feet long or more. 
Leaflets 4 to 2 inch long, narrowly-oblong or strap-shaped, a little 
narrowed towards the base. Stipules slender, cut into 2 to 4 long 
subulate segments, the innermost segment broader than the others, 
those of the upper leaves usually entire. Peduncles axillary, 2 to 2 
inches long, shortly awned at the apex. Pedicels scarcely as long 
as the calyx, ascending, forming an angle with the spreading flowers. 
Flowers + inch long, whitish tinged with pale blue, in a lax raceme 
at the upper part of the peduncle; standard scarcely spreading, 
a little longer than the other petals. Style glabrous. Pod 3 to 4 
inch long, black or dark brown when ripe, convex on the margin at 
the base above, then straight to the apex; nearly straight below to 
near the apex, where the margin becomes convex, not much more 
than twice as long as deep, bossulated by the seeds, with short 
white woolly hairs in all the British specimens I have seen. Seeds 
about the size of a rape-seed, smooth, black, or pale olive-yellow 
marbled with blackish-purple. Plant greyish-green, more or less 
thickly clothed with distant short hairs. | 
Hairy Tare. 
French, Zrs Hérissé. German, Zitlerlinse. 
if ray sp 
vs § Otyet. FA fh 
