104 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
near Southend. A specimen has been sent me labelled “ Vicia 
Bithynica, Budleigh Salterton, Devon,’ in the handwriting of 
Miss Carpenter ; but probably there has been some transposition 
of labels. 
England. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 
Stems 1 to 4 feet high, angular, and furnished with 2 rather 
narrow herbaceous strips or wings. Petioles very short. Leaflets 
1 to 2 inches long, varying much in breadth, frequently there is 
only a single pair, but if there be a second, the leaflets are smaller 
than those of the lower pair; tendrils bent downwards. Stipules 
rather small, slender, with long acute auricles parallel to the stem. 
Peduncles 2 to 5 inches long, generally 2-flowered, with one flower 
a little above the other. Pedicels about as long as the calyx. 
Flowers spreading, + inch long, bright-crimson, with the keel and 
wings paler; standard with the lamina roundish, spreading at right 
angles to the claw, and having the sides folded back. Style much 
dilated towards the stigma. Pods shortly stipitate, 1 to 14 inch long, 
much compressed. Seeds few, roundish, compressed, brown, gran- 
ulated with elongate papille ; hilum oval, one-twelfth the cireum- 
ference of the seed. Plant greyish-green, slightly hairy, the pods 
clothed with rather long hairs with papillee at the base. 
Hairy Vetchling. 
French, Gesse Velue. German, Behaarte Platterbse. 
SPECIES IV—LATHYRUS PRATENSIS. Zin. 
Priate CCCC. 
- Rootstock extensively creeping. Stems climbing or trailing, 
slightly winged. Leaves with 1 pair of elliptical or strapshaped- 
elliptical acute leaflets; common petiole terminating in a simple 
or branched tendril. Stipules large, lanceolate-ovate or lanceolate, 
acuminate, sagittate at the base with slender acute auricles. 
Peduneles axillary, longer than the leaves, 3- to 12-flowered. 
Flowers spreading, in a compact raceme. Calyx-teeth triangular, 
subulate towards the apex, slightly unequal, about as long as the 
tube. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx. Pods linear- 
oblong, compressed, nearly straight, when mature glabrous, or 
clothed with short curled hairs without papille at their base. 
In meadows, pastures, hedges, and borders of woods. Very 
common, and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Stems angular, with wings narrower than its diameter, much — 
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