DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. ^93 



By the fides of lakes, and in marfliy or boggy 



grounds, but rare. %. VIL VIlI. 

 The (talk Is two feet high, wing'd with two mem- 

 branes, weak and branched towards the top : the 

 leaves arc of an elliptic-lanceolate form, gene- 

 rally three pair upon a rib : the tendrils are tri- 

 fid : the JfipuU are broad, fcmi-elliptical, acute 

 at both ends, and dcntated externally below the 

 middle : the Bra5fec£ are fmall and lanceolate : 

 the peduncles are three inches long, and produce 

 about fix or eight purple flowers, with veined 

 petals : the pods are fmooth and a little com- 

 prefs'd. 



VICIA. Gen. pi. 873. 

 Stigma latere inferiore tranfverfe barbatum. 

 * Peduncidis elongatis. 

 VICIA pedunculis multifloris, foiiolis ovalibus, fti- 

 pulis denticulatis. Sp, pi 1035. (Pkk. Jim. t. 

 71,/. I. Haller. hiji.jiirp. Hehet, v. i. n. 426. t. 

 17.. p. iji. fig. ad dextrmu; fed fol. -rnmis aciitis. 

 Oed. Dan. t. 277. opt.) 

 Tufted Wood- Vetch. Anglh. 

 in fhrubby places at the foot of mountains and 

 rocks, but not common, as under SaliJ'hu?y-C}'aigSy 

 and at Carlland rocks, near La?ierk, &c. %. VII. 

 VIII. 

 The ftalks of this elegant plant are angular, 

 branphed, weak and climbing, three or even fix 

 feet, and have numerous leaves : the fiipuU are 



deeply 



