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in the remains of the style bent upwards. Seeds ,'4 inch across, 
dim, brownish-black. Plant bright pea-green, glabrous. 
Wood Vetch. 
French, Vesce des Bois. German, Wald LFrve. 
This beautiful plant is well known to all lovers of wild flowers asa favourite object. 
Tn foliage, flowers, and grace, it is not exceeded by any of our climbing plants. Scott 
was alive to its charms when he wrote,— 
“ And where profuse the Wood Vetch clings 
Round ash and elm in verdant rings ; 
Its pale and azure pencill’d flower 
Should canopy Titania’s bower.” 
Section IIJ.—EU-VICIA. Coss. 
Leaves with many pairs of leaflets. Peduncles very short, 
scarcely exceeding the pedicels, axillary, 2- to 6-flowered or scarcely 
observable when the flowers are solitary or in pairs. Flowers race- 
mose or sub-solitary. Style bearded with a tuft of long hairs 
below the stigma on the outer side. Pods stipitate and rather 
short, or sessile and elongated. 
SPECIES VIL—VICIA SEPIUM. Zinn. 
Puate CCCLXXXVIII. 
Rootstock creeping, stoloniferous. Stem weak, climbing or 
trailing. Leaves with 5 to 8 pair of oval or ovate leaflets, truncate 
or sub-truncate and mucronate at the apex; common petiole ter- 
minating in a branched tendril. Stipules half-lunate, strongly 
toothed, the upper ones half-sagittate and nearly entire, the upper- 
most oblong-lanceolate, entire. Peduncles much shorter than the 
leaves, with 2 to 5 (usually 4) spreading-reflexed flowers in a very 
short compact unilateral raceme. Pedicels shorter than the calyx- 
tube. Calyx hairy, with the teeth unequal, shorter than the tube, 
which is more convex on the upper than lower side, the 3 lower 
ones deltoid, suddenly acuminated near the base into subulate, the 
2 upper ones shorter, broader at the base, and curved upwards. 
Standard glabrous, twice as long as the calyx. Pods ascending 
or spreading, stipitate on a gynophore shorter than the calyx- 
tube, oblong, slightly compressed, acuminated at the apex into a 
rather long sharp beak slightly curved downwards, glabrous. 
Seeds sub-globular, with the hilum two-thirds the circumference of 
the seed. 
