94 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



V. hybrida L. = V. Linna?i Rouy (Plate XIV). Leaves with 5-7 pairs 

 of truncate or emarginate, obovate-cuneate leaflets. Stipules simple or semi- 

 sagittate, not spotted. Calyx-teeth unequal, hairy. Flowers large, solitary, 

 subsessile, pale yellow, the standard striped with violet, and covered outside 

 with velvety hairs. Pod broad, yellowish, covered with spreading hairs. Seeds 

 brownish. 



Cultivated places and borders of fields. April-June. 



V. lutea L. Leaves with 5-7 pairs of mucronate, linear-oblong leaflets. 

 One stipule usually spotted, simple or bifid. Calyx-teeth very unequal, glabrous, 

 the two upper being short and connivant. Flowers pale yellow, or tinted with 

 violet, large, axillary, subsessile ; standard quite glabrous. Pod same size and 

 shape as the last, but nearly black when ripe, and the hairs are tubercular at base. 



Borders of fields and sandy places. April-June. 



Var. hirta Loisel. = V. hirta DC. Differs from the last in its longer and 

 narrower leaflets, its long spreading hairs covering the whole plant and its 

 whitish flowers blotched with pink. 



Borders of fields and under the pines on sandy soil. May-July. 



V. sepium L. Bush Vetch. Perennial. Leaflets ovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 in 5-7 pairs, green. Calyx-teeth unequal, the two upper ones short and connivant. 

 Flowers pale violet, 2-6 in subsessile clusters. Pod i in. long, glabrous, black 

 when ripe. 



Woods, hedges, and shady places in the lower mountain region. April-July. 



V. melanops Sibth. et Smith. Annual, climbing, 1-2 ft., downy. Leaflets 

 oblong, in 5-7 pairs ; tendrils branched. Flowers tricoloured, standard yellowish, 

 wings purple-black at top, keel purplish, rather large, 1-3, subsessile. Pods 30 by 

 8-10 mm., glabrous but hairy on the joints. Yellowish when ripe. 

 Hilly places and dry woods in the Var, rare. May-June. 



V. pannonica Crantz. (flowers yellow, tinted with red) is very rare in the 

 Var. 



V. narbonensis L. A stout erect annual. Lower leaves with one pair of 

 leaflets but without tendril ; upper leaves with tendril and 2-3 pairs of broad oval 

 entire leaflets. Stipules large, toothed and often spotted. Calyx-teeth unequal. 

 Flowers dull purple, darker on the wings, large, 1-5 in very shortly stalked 

 clusters. Pod large, 50-60 mm. long by 10-12, with minute teeth on the sutures. 



Crops and bordering fields, not common. April-June. 



** Flowers on a long peduncle ; calyx-teeth shorter than the tube. Mostly 

 perennial. 



V. bithynica L. A climbing glabrous species 1-3 ft. high. Leaflets 

 oblong or lanceolate, variable, in 1-3 pairs. Calyx-teeth equal. Flowers pale 

 purple, wings paler or nearly white, 1-3 together on a peduncle varying in 

 length. Pod hairy. Seeds beautifully mottled, black and dull green. 



Borders of woods and fields, common. April-June. 



V. dumetorum L. A climbing, green and glabrous species, 3-6 ft. long. 

 Leaves with 4-5 pairs of large oval obtuse leaflets, and branching tendrils. 

 Flowers at first purplish then yellowish, 3-8 in a loose cluster on long peduncle. 

 Calyx-teeth very unequal, the two upper connivant. Pod glabrous, oblong com- 

 pressed, fawn coloured when ripe. 



Mountain woods in Alpes-Marit., rare. July-August. 



V. onobrychioides L. A very handsome Vetch, almost glabrous and more 

 or less climbing. Leaves with 5-8 pairs of linear leaflets. Flowers a beautiful 

 rich violet with paler keel, large, 6-12 in a loose cluster. Calyx-teeth very un- 

 equal, the two upper short and connivant. Pods about 30 by 5 mm. glabrous, 

 fawn coloured at maturity. 



Fields and dry places in the hills and lower mountains. May-July. 



V. altissima Desf. (flowers bluish-white in long racemes) was discovered 

 new to France in 1904 between Le Lavandou and Cavalaire (Var). 



