160 DIADELPHIA-DECANDRIA. 



quarter of a mile below the public house at the Beild," 

 Lightfoot. " Near Longformacus," Berwickshire, Rev. 

 A. Baird. July. If 



220. LATHYRUS. 



1. L. pratensis, smooth ; stalks many.flowered ; flowers yel- 

 low ; tendrils mostly simple, each bearing a pair of lanceolate 

 leaflets. Meadow Vetchling. 



Hal. Moist meadows and pastures, common. Cattle are 

 fond of it. July, Aug. If. 



221. VICIA. 



1. V. sylvatica.) smooth ; leaflets elliptical ; stipulas crescent - 

 shaped, deeply toothed ; flowers white, streaked with bluish 

 veins. Wood Vetch. 



Hob. Woods and bushy places. Banks beyond the Needle- 

 eye; Tweed banks beyond Ord Mill, Thomp. July, 

 Aug. 11 



One of our most elegant wild plants ; well worthy to deco- 

 rate shrubberies, or to be trained over a treillis or bower ; 

 SMITH, and so Sir WALTER SCOTT seems also to think, 



" And where profuse the Wood Vetch clings 

 Round Ash and Elm in verdant rings, 

 Its pale and azure-pencilled flower 

 Should canopy Titania's bower." 



2. V. Cracca, downy ; flowers imbricated ; bluish-purple ; leaf- 

 lets lanceolate, silky ; stipulas half-arrow-shaped, mostly entire. 

 Tufted Vetch. 



Hob. Rough boggy fields, and in hedges, where it is very 

 ornamental. July, Aug. If 



* * Flowers axillary ^ nearly sessile. 



3. V. sativa, flowers mostly in pairs, purplish ; leaflets elliptic- 

 oblong, lower ones abrupt ; stipulas with a blackish depression 

 beneath ; seeds orbicular, smooth. Common Vetch. 



Hob. Corn fields, and dry short pastures. Banks below 



