DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. l6l 



Marshall-meadows. Amongst the whins to the north 

 of Kyloe rocks. June. 



Our plant is the variety of the English Flora, and the 

 specimens from the latter station approach, in some cha- 

 racters, to the V. augustifolia of the same work. The 

 flowers are always solitary, very conspicuous and beauti- 

 ful, but bluish-purple, not crimson. The root is furnished 

 with a few fleshy, rather large tubercles ; the stems are 

 procumbent, but branched and downy, not simple and 

 smooth ; and the mark of the stipulas is generally pale, 

 but sometimes brown. Readily distinguished from the 

 following by the seeds. 



4. V. lathyroideS) flowers solitary, bluish-purple ; leaflets ellip- 

 tic-oblong, lower ones inversely heart-shaped; tendrils simple, 

 shorter than the leaflets ; seeds cubic, warty. Spring Vetch. 



Hab. Gravelly fields. " Heugh, Holy Island ;" Chapel- 

 hill, Belford, and other basaltic heights between it and 

 Bamborough, Thomp. May. Q 



5. V. septum^ flowers about 4 together, in short axillary clus- 

 ters, bluish-purple ; legumes upright, smooth ; leaflets ovate, 

 obtuse, the upper ones gradually smaller. Bush Vetch. 



Hab. Hedges, common. "We have observed it with white 

 flowers. June. If. 



222. ERVUM. 



1. E. hirsutum, clusters many- flowered ; flowers very small, 

 pale blue ; legumes hairy, with 2 seeds ; stems weak, straggling ; 

 leaflets linear-oblong, abrupt. Hairy Tare. 



Hab. Corn fields and cultivated ground. June Aug. 



223. ASTRAGALUS. 



1. A. glycyphyllos, stem prostrate, 2 or 3 feet long; leaves 

 longer than the flower-stalks ; leaflets oval ; flowers pale sulphur- 

 colour ; legumes obscurely triangular, incurved. Wild Liquorice. 



Hab. " Brow of Cockle-hill at Learmonth ; banks of 

 Tweed by the road to Carham ; Hilly pastures at Mo- 

 ney-Laws," Wallis. June. I/. 



2. A. hypoglottiS) stem prostrate, 2 to 5 inches long ; flowers in 



