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than the leaves, flowers imbricated,, leaflets lanceolate slightly 



hairy, stipules semisagittate nearly entire. Lightf. p. 394. 



E.B. MlfiS. 



HAB. Bushy places, frequent. Fl. July, Aug. I/ . 

 Two to three feet or more high, climbing. Flowers numerous, crowded, 



drooping and imbricated, fine blueish purple. 



** Flowers axillary, nearly sessile. 



3. V. saliva (common Fetch), flowers sessile subbinate, legumes 

 nearly erect, lower leaves retuse stipules toothed impressed 

 with a dark spot, seeds smooth. Lightf. p. 395. E. B. /.334. 



HAB. Corn-fields, frequent. Fl. June. 0. 



One foot high or more. Leaflets very variable in width and obtuse- 

 ness, often truncate and mucronate, and in number also, from 2 to 

 6* pairs or more on a petiole. Flowers large, purple and blue, or red. 

 Legumes more or less pubescent. The small vars. are often con- 

 founded with the following species. 



4. V. lathyroides (Spring Fetch), flowers sessile solitary, legumes 

 glabrous, leaves generally in 3 pairs lower ones retuse, stipules 

 entire, seeds tuberculated. Lightf. p. 396. E. B. f.30. 



HAB. Dry pastures, especially of a gravelly soil. King's Park, Edinb., 

 and Leith gravel-pit, Dr. Parsons. Blackford hill, Maugh. Dal- 

 mahoy hill, near Edinb., and hill of Kinnoul by Perth, Mr. Borrer and 

 Hook. Burntisland, Mr.Arnott. Along the coast about Largs, &c. 

 and Dumbarton-castle, Mr. Murray. Fl. May, June. Q. 



Three to five inches high, branched. Stipules without the dark impressed 

 spots of the last species, and may be known from the small specimens 

 of that, if in blossom, by the small, more purple, fower, scarcely 

 so large as the leaflets, and with a less reflexed keel ; if in fruit, 

 by the rough or dotted seeds, as Sir James Smith has well observed. 

 The foliage is very variable in both, but here there are fewer leaf- 

 lets on a petiole and the tendril is small and simple. 



5. V. luted (rough-podded yellow Fetch), flowers sessile solitary, 

 legumes reflexed hairy, stem diffuse, stipules coloured, standard 

 glabrous. E.B. #.481. 



HAB. Hills at N. Queensferry* and between Montrose and Ar- 

 broath, G. Don, FL June, July. I/ . 



Stems 6 12 inches high, weak. Leaflets elliptical, lanceolate, hairy 

 beneath, and at the edges, 6 to 9 pairs on a petiole. Flowers large,, 

 yellow. Legumes compressed. Distinguished from the V. hybrida 

 by its glabrous, not pubescent, standard of the flower. 



G. V, septum (Bush Fetch), flowers mostly in fours subpetiolate, 

 legumes upright glabrous, leaflets ovate obtuse gradually smaller 

 upwards upon the petiole. Lightf. p. 397. E. B. t. 79. 



HAB. Woods and shady places, frequent. FL June, July. ^ . 



One foot to two feet high. Leqftetslarge. One or two of the 



a Mr. Arnott has searched for it in vain in this s 



