86 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



oval, stem 3-5 ft., climbing ; bushy places, rare ; Switzer- 

 land, Pyrenees. V. oroboides, Wulf. ; flowers large, light 

 yellow, 2-6 in sessile racemes, leaves without tendrils, 

 leaflets in 1-3 pairs, mucronate; bushy places, rare; 

 Southern Tirol, Styria, Carniola, Carinthia. V. sylvatica, 

 L., Wood Vetch ; flowers large, white with blue veins, 

 6-1 8 in a long-stalked raceme, stipules crescent-shaped, 

 toothed, stem 24 ft., scrambling, glabrous; thickets in 

 the lowlands, common. V. Orobus, DC. (Orobus sylva- 

 ticus } L.) ; flowers white spotted with violet, stipules half- 

 hastate, slightly toothed, leaves without tendrils, stem 

 erect, 1-2 ft. ; woods ; Pyrenees. V. cassubica, L. ; re- 

 sembling the last, but with a smaller raceme, and with 

 smaller violet flowers; woods; Pyrenees. V. villosa, 

 Roth; plant villous, flowers very small, 2-3, stem 4- 

 angled, leaflets linear-oblong, mucronate, in 8-10 pairs, 

 stipules half-arrow-shaped, legume 2-seeded; Southern 

 Switzerland, Tirol. 



F. Flowers in stalked racemes ; calyx usually gibbous 

 at the base ; legume prolonged into a beak : V. Cracca, 

 L. ; flowers blue, 1 5-20 in dense racemes, leaves long and 

 narrow ; hedges in the lowlands, common. V. Gerardi, 

 G. and G. ; resembling the last, but with a somewhat 

 denser raceme and erect hairy stem ; thickets ; Southern 

 Switzerland, Tirol, Pyrenees. V. tenuifolia, Roth ; 

 flowers light blue, elongated, in very long lax racemes, 

 calyx not gibbous; thickets; Switzerland, Pyrenees. 

 V. varia, Host. ; flowers violet, elongated, horizontal, 

 stipules of two kinds, entire and laciniated, stem ascend- 

 ing, 1-2 ft. ; cultivated land. 



