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LEGUMINOS/E. CLXIX. VICIA. 



pressed, glabrous, brown ; seeds globose, blackish red. Q. H. 

 Native of Carniola, and other parts of Europe. Flowers large, 

 yellow. The vexillum edged with red. 



Great-JloiveredVetch. H. June, July. Clt. 1818. PI. cl. 



94 V. SO'RDIDA (Waldst. et Kit. pi. rar. hung. 2. p. 133. 

 t. 133.) stems branched ; leaves cirrhiferous ; leaflets 10-12, ob- 

 ovate, retuse, mucronate ; stipulas semi-sagittate, entire, spotted ; 

 flowers usually twin, inclined ; calyx cylindrical ; the segments 

 hardly unequal, linear, a little shorter than the tube, parallel ; 

 vexillum large, somewhat obcordate and mucronulate ; style 

 bearded at the apex; legumes lanceolate, compressed, decli- 

 nate, smoothish, reticulated ; seeds somewhat globose. O- H. 

 Native of Hungary. Sturm, fl. germ, l.fasc. 31. with a figure. 

 Flowers large, yellow tinged with green, pedicellate. 



Var. ft, rotundala (Ser. mss. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 363.) leaflets 

 roundish-obcordate. 



Sordid-fiowered Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1802. PI. cl. 



95 V. BiEBERSTErNii (Besser. in Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. 492.) 

 leaves cirrhiferous; leaflets 8-10, linear, rather truncate and 

 mucronulate ; stipulas semi-sagittate, lanceolate, spotted ; flowers 

 usually twin ; calyx cylindrical, with hardly unequal, linear 

 segments, which are a little shorter than the tube ; legumes 

 nearly sessile, usually solitary and spreading, glabrous. Q. H. 

 Native of Podolia. V. sordida, Bieb. fl. taur. 2. p. 161. ex- 

 clusive of the synonymes. Flowers yellow. 



Bieberste'm's Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1820. PI. cl. 



!)6 V. LINE.OTA (Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. 473.) leaflets linear- 

 c-lliptic, pilose ; stipulas spotted, lower ones deeply toothed ; 

 flowers usually twin, almost sessile ; calycine teeth broadish, 

 shorter than the tube, glabrous ; style bearded at the apex ; 

 vexillum glabrous, lined ; legumes very pilose. Q. H. Native 

 of Tauria. Flowers pale yellow ? 



/,;;i/-flowered Vetch. PI. 1-J foot. 



97 V. BIPARTI'TA (Mcench. meth. p. 149.) leaves cirrhifer- 

 ous; leaflets 5-7, linear, obtuse, acuminated; stipulas lanceo- 

 late, bipartite ; peduncles twin, longish ; calycine teeth lanceo- 

 late ; legumes terete, glabrous, 6-8-seeded. O- H. Native 

 country unknown. 



Bipartitc-st\pu\eH Vetch. PI. cl. 



98 V. BA'CLA (Mcench. meth. p. 148.) leaflets oblong, obtuse, 

 and mucronulate ; stipulas semi-lunate, toothed ; flowers twin ; 

 legumes erect, smooth ; calyx glabrous ; seeds somewhat com- 

 pressed, olive-coloured. Q, H. Native country unknown. 



Bacla Vetch. PI. cl. 



99 V. BI'COLOU (Willd. enum. suppl. p. 51. ex Horn. hort. 

 hafn. suppl. p. 81.) leaflets oblong, obtuse; stipulas subulate, 

 with one tooth at the base ; peduncles naked, usually twin? shorter 

 than the leaves. O- H. Native country unknown. Flowers 

 mixed with purple and white. 



Tivo-coloured-tlowered Vetch. Fl. Ju. Aug. Clt. 1820. PI. cl. 



^ 6. Flowers almost sessile, 2-4-together, on very short pedi- 

 cels, or Jew flowers on very short peduncles. 



100 V. TRI'COLOR (Sebast. et Mauri, prod. fl. rom. p. 245. 

 t. 4.) stems simple ; leaves cirrhiferous ; leaflets numerous, 

 oblong, retuse, and mucronulate, villous ; stipulas semi-sagittate, 

 lanceolate, s^pacelate ; flowers 3-together, inclinate ; calyx ob- 

 liqutly-campanulate, with unequal, diverging teeth, which are 

 shorter than the tube ; vexillum dotted with rust colour ; style 

 bearded at the apex ; legumes lanceolate, glabrous, ciliated, re- 

 flexed. O- H. Native about Naples. Vexillum yellowish. 

 Wings purplish. 



Var. a, obcordata (Ser. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 364.) leaflets 

 obcordate, truncate, clothed with silky villi beneath. 



Var. ft, oblonga (Ser. 1. c.) leaflets oblong, somewhat truncate, 

 and inucronulate. 



7Vira'-c/oj-cd-flowered Vetch. Fi.Ju.Aug. Clt. 1818. PI. cl. 



101 V. SE PIUM (Lin. spec. 1038.) stems branched; leaves 

 cirrhiferous; leaflets 10-12, ovate, retuse, and somewhat mucro- 

 nulate, hairy, ciliated; stipulas semi-sagittate, lower ones toothed, 

 each marked with a brown spot ; flowers 3-4-together, leaning 

 oneway; calyx hairy, tubular, with unequal teeth, which are 

 deflexed at the apex and shorter than the tube ; style bearded 

 at the apex ; legumes smooth, lanceolate-oblong, inclinate, a 

 little ciliated, reticulated ; seeds globose, smooth. I/ . H. Na- 

 tive of Europe, in shady places. In Britain in thickets and 

 under hedges, common. Sturm, fl. germ. 1. fasc. 31. with a 

 figure. Smith, engl. bot. 1515. Oed. fl. dan. 699. Riv. tetr. 

 irr. t. 56. Flowers dull bluish purple. This plant shoots earlier 

 in spring than any other plant eaten by cattle, vegetates in the 

 autumn, and continues green all the winter. A patch sown in 

 drills in a garden was cut five times in the course of the second 

 year, and produced at the rate of 24 tons an acre of green 

 food, which when dry would weigh near four tons and a half. 

 Though palatable to all kinds of cattle, it would be difficult to 

 cultivate on a large scale, the seeds being generally devoured by 

 the larvae of a species of Attclabus, which larvae are the prey of 

 a species of ichneumon. 



Var. a, ochroleuca (Bast, suppl. no. 8. D. C. fl. fr. 5. p. 

 581.) flowers cream-coloured. 



Var. y, subrotunda (Ser. mss. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 364.) leaflets 

 ovate-roundish ; flowers violaceous. 



Var. <>, capsella (Ser. 1. c.) leaflets obcordate, similar in shape 

 of the pods to Capsella ; flowers 1-3-together, white? Native 

 of the Levant. 



Hedge Vetch. Fl. May, July. Britain. PL cl. 



102 V. PANNONICA (Jacq. fl. aust. t. 34.) plant pilose ; stems 

 simple ; leaves cirrhiferous ; leaflets oblong, mucronate ; stipulas 

 lanceolate, marked ; flowers from 2-4-together, inclinate, almost 

 sessile ; calycine segments setaceous, nearly equal, length of the 

 tube or longer ; vexillum pilose and ernarginate ; style bearded 

 at the apex ; legumes oblong-lanceolate, compressed, pilose, 

 deflexed. O- H. Native of Hungary and Austria. Sturm, 

 fl. germ. 1. fasc. 31. with a figure. Flowers dirty white. 



Pannonian Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1658. PI. cl. 



103 V. STRIATA (Bieb. fl. taur. 2. p. 162.) plant beset with 

 hairs ; leaves cirrhiferous ; leaflets elliptic, oblong, acute, clothed 

 with silky pili beneath ; stipulas lanceolate, marked ; vexillum 

 clothed with silky pili ; legumes pedunculate, 2 or 3-together, 

 reflexed, clothed with silky pili. I/. . H. Native of Tauria. 

 Viscioldes hirsuta, Mcench. meth. 137. V. Pannonica/:!, Willd. 

 spec. 3. p. 1107. V. purpurascens, D. C. hort. monsp. 155. 

 V. Pannonica ft, purpurascens, Ser. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 364. 

 Flowers violaceous and streaked, wings and keel paler. 



Var. ft, linear if olio, ; flowers purple ; leaflets linear-oblong, 

 mucronulate. V. Pannonica y, linearifolia, Ser. 1. c. 



-S^nated-flowered Vetch. Fl. June, July. Clt.? PI. cl. 



104 V. TRUNCA'TULA (Fisch. cat. hort. gorenk. 1812. p. 72. 

 ex Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. p. 473.) stems almost simple, striated, 

 glabrous; leaflets elliptic, truncate, and mucronulate at the apex, 

 puberulous, with numerous diverging nerves ; tendrils almost 

 obsolete ; stipulas semi-sagittate, ovate, small, acuminated ; pe- 

 duncles almost sessile, few-flowered; calyx pilose, black, with 

 nearly equal teeth, which are shorter than the tube ; style 

 bearded; legumes lanceolate. I/. H. Native of Caucasus. 

 Flowers cream-coloured. This plant is nearly allied to V. se- 

 pium, but with the leaves impari-pinnate, as in V, Cassubica. 



Var. ft, glalriuscula (Ser. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 364.) plant 

 less pubescent, teeth of calyx short and rather spacelate. Na- 

 tive of Iberia. 



7>Hc/e-leafletted Vetch. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1818. PI. 

 1 foot. 



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