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Glastonbury, Somerset. Perennial; June, July. 



Smith says that the essential specific difference between V. 

 hybrida and V. lutea consists in the standard " being clothed 

 externally with abundance of shining yellow hairs." 



V. sepium, L. Bush Vetch. — e.b. 1515. l.b.s. 301. 

 A. 18. C. 81. Lat. 50-60°. Alt. 0-650 yds. Tem. 51-40°. 



Stem straggling, branched, leafy, winged or angular. Leaflets 

 ovate, mucronate, in 4-8 pairs; stipules toothed, teeth pointed. 

 Flowers in axillary clusters, on short peduncles. Calyx tubular, 

 hairy, with short, unequal teeth. Standard dilated, longer than 

 the wings. Legumes oblong (scimitar-shaped), black when the 

 fruit is ripe. Seeds globular, black, speckled with white ; hilum 

 linear, white, surrounding half the circumference. 



Hedges and woods. Perennial ; June-September. 



Var. /3. niontana, Koch? — Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, truncate. 



V. bithynica, Lin. Rovgh-podded Purple Vetch. — e.b. 1842. 

 L.B.S. 302. 



A. 7. C. 15. Lat. 51-54°. Alt. 0-100 yds. Tem. 52-48°. 



Root perennial. Stems slender, angular, glabrous, spreading, 

 leafy. Leaflets lanceolate or linear, pointed, one pair on the 

 lower, and two pairs on the upper leaf- stalks ; stipules lanceolate, 

 with fringed teeth. Flowers solitary, axillary, on stalks which 

 are shorter than the leaves. Calyx tubular, with long, pointed 

 teeth. Standard purple. Ljegumes tumid, hairy. Seeds 6, 

 globular, speckled. ~~ 



There is a variety of this plant with narrowly linear leaves and 

 narrower stipules. 



In bushy, gravelly places near the sea. It was gathered at 

 Battersea in 1853 and 1854, on mud laid on the fields, with se- 

 veral other foreigners. Perennial ; July-September. 



Sect. 11. — Flowers clustered, rarely solitary by abortion. Common peduncles 

 much longer than the pedicels. Corolla much longer than the calyx. 

 Style irregularly pubescent or almost glabrous. 



V. Cracca, L. Tufted Vetch.— ^.b. 1168. l.b.s. 297. 



A. 18. C. 82. Lat. 50-61°. Alt. 0-800 yds. Tem. 51-38°. 

 Root perennial. Stem climbing, angular, furrowed, hairy or 

 puberulent ; tendrils long, branched, and coiled. Leaflets oblong, 

 linear or lanceolate, tapering, or obtuse and mucronate, 8-10 

 pairs ; stipules herbaceous, half arrow-sliaped, entire, lanceolate. 

 Flowers numerous, bluish-violet, on peduncles which arc not 



