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larger. The plant from Weymouth, in Smith’s Herbarium, has 
the pods more nearly glabrous, and evidently approaches the next 
sub-species. 
Rough-podded Yellow Vetch. 
French, Vesce Jaune. German, Gelbe Wicke. 
Sus-Sprecres ? I1.—Vicia levigata. Sm. 
Puate CCCXC. 
V. sativa, var. Benth. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 179. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 
p 1117 
Plant entirely glabrous. Stipules all green. Calyx-teeth un- 
equal, but rather less so than in the preceding sub-species. Pods 
without hairs, quite smooth or faintly papillose-tuberculated. 
On the pebbly beach at Weymouth, Dorset, but now extinct. 
[England.| ‘“ Perennial,’ (Sm.) Summer and Autumn. 
Extremely like V. eu-lutea but smaller, and glabrous, with the 
stems less striated, the leaflets rather blunter at the apex, firmer 
in texture, and deeper green. Seeds larger and more mottled. 
** Flowers pale blue or whitish, seldom yellowish.” (Smith.) This 
writer also says that the calyx-teeth are generally more equal in 
length; but on examining the specimens in his Herbarium I can 
see but little difference in this respect between the two plants. 
I have seen no specimens besides those in the Smithian Her- 
barium, which contains both the wild plant from Weymouth and 
larger cultivated examples from Dr. Goodenough’s garden. The 
Weymouth specimens of V. lutea in Smith’s Herbarium approach 
V. levigata, and it is very desirable that this resemblance should 
be further investigated by botanists in that neighbourhood. 
Mr. Bentham places V. levigata under V. sativa, to which it 
bears no resemblance, so that I conclude he has not examined 
Smith’s specimens. 
Smooth-podded Sea Vetch. 
SPECIES IX.—VICIA HYBRIDA. Zinn. 
Pirate CCCXCLI. 
Rootstock none. Stems weak, climbing or trailing. Leaves with 
5 to 7 pair of oblong-obovate or oblong-oblanceolate leaflets, more 
or less deeply notched at the apex, with a small point in the centre 
of the notch; common petiole terminating in a branched tendril. 
Stipules half-hastate. Flowers axillary, solitary, erect or ascending. 
Pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx membranous, slightly 
hairy ; tube gibbous at the base on the upper side; teeth unequal, 
