270 UIADELPHIA — DECANDRIA. [Vicia. 



Woods, rare, too often the outcast of gardens. Cambridgeshire, Cum- 

 berland, Worcestershire, Bedfordshire. Apparently wild in an old 

 quarry, near Stapleton, Gloucestershire. Near Kirkcudbright, Scotland. 

 Fl. July, Aug. If. — A well known climber and a great ornament of 

 cottage gardens. Somewhat resembling the last, but with leaves a great 

 deal broader and Jfowers larger and more purple. 



7. L. palustris, L. (blue 3Iarsh Ve(chling) ; peduncles 3 — 6- 

 flowered, tendrils with 2 — 4 pairs of linear lanceolate acute leaflets, 

 stipules half arrow-sliaped lanceolate, stem winged. E.Bol.i. 169. 



Boggy meadows and thickets in several parts of England ; near Lon- 

 don, in Berkshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and I believe 

 not unfrequently in Norfolk. Gallowa)^ Scotland. Fl. July, Aug. If.. 

 — Stem 2 — 3 feet high, climbing. Leaflets about 2 inches long. Flowers 

 bluish-purple. 



8. L. maritimtis, Big. (^sea-side Everlasting -Peci) ; peduncles 

 many-flowered shorter than the leaves, tendrils with 3 — i pairs 

 of oval leaflets, stipules as large as the leaflets unequally corda- 

 to-hastate with the angles acute, stem angled without wings.— 

 Pisiini, L. — E.Bot. t. 1046. — L. pisiformis, Br. Fl. ed. 2, p. 324, 

 {scarcely of i.) — a. compact robust, leaflets obovato-elliptical 

 obtuse on a recurved common petiole. Graham. — /3. straggling, 

 slender, leaflets elliptical-lanceolate acute, common petiole 

 straight. Graham. 



Pebbly beach of Lincolnshire, Suffolk, and the south coast of England. 

 Kerry, Ireland. — (3. Shetland, 3Ir Thos. Edmondston. Dr M'Nab. 

 Fl. July. If. — Upon a careful examination of the style of this plant, I 

 feel assured that it ought to be removed to Lathyrus, where Bigelow 

 indeed has placed it. The var. /S., brought by Dr M'Nab from Shetland 

 in 1837, in its slender straggling habit and narrow leaves comes very 

 near the L. Altaicus, Ledeb., but that has much smaller stipules and 

 cylindrical legumes. The same state is found in Iceland and Arctic 

 America. 



11. VfciA. Linn. Vetch. 

 * Peduncles elo7igated, many-Jlowered. 



1. V. sylvatica, L. {Wood Vetch); peduncles many-flowered 

 longer than the leaves, leaflets elliptico-oblong mucronate, sti- 

 pules lunate deeply toothed at their base. E. Bot. t. 79. 



Bushy places in mountainous countries, in Scotland, the north and 

 north-west of England, Wales, and Ireland. It has been found near New- 

 market and in Oxfordshire ; and between Lyminge and Eltliam, Kent. 

 Fl. July, Aug. If' — Ste7n 3 — 6 feet high, climbing by means of its 

 branching tendrils. Leaflets G — 8 or 10 pairs. Floicers very beautiful, 

 numerous, white, streaked with bluish veins. 



2. V. Crdcca, L. (tufted VelcJi) ; peduncles many-flowered lon- 

 ger than the leaves, flowers imbricated, leaflets lanceolate slight- 

 ly hairy, stipules half arrow-shaped nearly entire. E. Bot.t. 1 168. 



Bushy places. Fl. July, Aug, If. — 2 — 3 feet high. Flowers numer- 

 ous, crowded, drooping and imbricated, of a fine bluish-purple. 



