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of Summer. Leaves ovate the lower ones of three leaflets, 

 serrated. Flowers large, rose colored, nearly sessile, either 

 alone, or two together, borne all along the stem. Calyx 

 shorter than the flower, but longer than the pod, which is two 

 or three-seeded. This is a perennial plant. 



O. S. Small Spreading Rest Harrow, a prostrate annual, lately dis- 

 covered in a wild part of Scotland. 



KIDNEY-VETCH. ANTHYLLUS. 

 COMMON KIDNEY-VETCH. LADY'S FINGERS. A. vulneraria. 



Plate 11, fig. 7. 



This little darling grows along and among the grass in 

 pastures, and on hill-sides, flowering in June, and having 

 much of the appearance of Bird's -foot Trefoil but is at once 

 known by its pinnate leaves, and the heads of flowers being in 

 pairs. The pinnate leaves have from five to nine leaflets, 

 which are entire and hairy. The flowers are of a fine bright 

 yellow color, in crowded heads, with hairy calyces, and large 

 finger-shaped bracts. 



BITTER-VETCH. OROBUS. 

 TUBEROUS BITTER-VETCH. Orolus tulerosus. 



Plate 11, fig. 8. 



In thickets, flowering in May, growing eight or ten inches 

 high. Leaves pinnate, of from two to four pair of leaflets, 

 without any leaflet or tendril to the end. Stipules half arrow- 

 shaped. Stem erect, winged, not branched. Flowers purple, 

 veined, in long stalked bunches. Pods long, hanging down, 

 round, black. Root tuberous. Sometimes eaten by the 

 Highlanders. 



O. S. Black Bitter-Vetch, often grown in gardens, found wild in Scot- 

 land only ; it turns black in drying Wood Bitter-Vetch, a whitish-flowered 

 species, found in the Northern Counties. 



VETCHLING. LATHYRUS. 

 MEADOW VETCHLING. Lathyrus pratensis. 



Plate 11, fig. 9. 



An exceedingly common, and very beautiful, yellow- flowered 

 plant, that climbs among the bushes in the thickets and hedge- 



