98 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
‘Var. 6, Bobartii. Koch. 
Pirate CCCXCIV. 
V. sativa, var. y, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 85. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 179. 
V. Bobartii, Yorster, in E. B. S. No. 2708. 
V. angustifolia, Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. IIT. p. 282. 
Stems slender. Upper leaves strap-shaped or linear. Flowers 
often solitary. Pods 1 to 13 inch long, not splitting the calyx. 
Var. a on the borders of fields, amongst corn, by roadsides, 
and in recently disturbed ground or in light rich soil. Var. 6 in 
dry pastures, hedge-banks, and by roadsides. Both forms are 
common and generally distributed in England; more rare in Scot- 
land, where they do not extend North of Moray. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring and Summer. 
Very like V. eu-sativa, but smaller. Stems from 6 inches to 
2 feet high. The upper leaves very narrow in var. £, while those 
of var. « approach those of V. eu-sativa in shape and size, though 
generally narrower, and less deeply notched at the apex. The 
flowers are smaller, and have the standard not much paler than 
the wings, and usually of a bright crimson. The pods are more 
spreading, smaller, more cylindrical, black and usually glabrous 
when ripe, and they have the imperfect partitions of cellular tissue 
between the seeds only rudimentary. The seeds are much smaller, 
and rather less compressed. ‘The two varieties pass insensibly into 
each other, and intermediates often occur. 
Common Wild Vetch. 
French, Vesce & Feuilles Etroites. German, Schmalbliitérige Wicke. 
SPECIES XI—VICIA LATHYROIDES. Zinn. 
PuateE CCCXCV. 
Rootstock none. Stems decumbent, spreading. Leaves with 
2 to 4 pairs of wedgeshaped-obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong leaflets, 
notched or truncate and apiculate at the apex; common petiole 
terminating in a subulate point or short simple tendril. Stipules 
half-sagittate. Flowers axillary, solitary, ascending.  Pedicels 
much shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx herbaceous, slightly 
hairy; tube filiform, not gibbous at the base of the upper side; — 
teeth equal, subulate, nearly as long as the tube. Standard gla- 
brous, rather more than twice the length of the calyx-tube, with 
the lamina roundish-oval. Pods ascending or spreading, sessile, 
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