994 VICIA. [CLASS XVII, ORDER IIT. 
GENUS XX. VI'CIA—Luixn. Vetch. 
Nat. Ord. Papitiona'cEx. LInNn. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx tubular, five-cleft or five-toothed, unequal. 
Stamens diadelphous, Style filiform, villous on the upper side, 
and with a tuft of hairs below the stigma on the under side. 
Legume oblong, one celled, many seeded. Seeds with an oval or 
linear lateral hilum. 
* Peduneles elongated, many flowered. 
1. V. sylvatica, Linn. (Fig. 1154.) Wood Vetch. Peduncle many 
flowered, longer than the leaves; leaves pinnate, with about eight 
pairs of ovate obtuse veiny leaflets ; stipules semi-lunate, deeply cut 
at the base into bristle-shaped teeth. 
English Botany, t. 79.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 279—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 270.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 84. 
Root creeping, the whole plant smooth. Stems numerous, weak, 
spreading, angular, striated, branched, and leafy, climbing six or 
eight feet high. eaves numerous, petiole, channeled above, termi- 
nating in long slender branched tendrils, leaflets ovate oblong, obtuse, 
veiny, the mid-rib terminating in a bristle point, nearly sessile, in 
about eight pairs. Stipules half-moon-shaped, the upper lobe lanceo- 
late oblong, mostly entire, the lower lobe cut into numerous bristle- 
shaped teeth, with a triangular base. Inflorescence simple racemes 
of numerous rather distant flowers, on a striated peduncle, longer 
than the leaves, pedicles short, slender, hairy. Calyx somewhat 
beli-shaped, the mouth oblique, and teeth unequal, bristle-shaped. 
Corolla rather large, white, beautifully pencilled with blue veins, the 
vexillum notched, the keel with an obtuse dark purple point. Legume 
about an inch long, brown, minutely dotted, and containing about 
four roundish seeds. 
Habitat—Bushy places in mountainous districts ; Scotland, the 
North and North-west of England, Wales, and Ireland; near New- 
market.—Rev. Mr. Hemstead. Oxfordshire, and between Lyminge 
and Eltham, Kent. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
The large racemes of the beautiful white striated flowers of this 
species render it worthy of the cultivator’s notice; indeed, few 
hardy perennial climbing plants are more beautiful or better suited to 
ornament the hedges or climb up the stems of shrubs in the flower 
garden than this plant. 
2. V.Crac'ca, Linn (Fig. 1155.) Tufted Vetch. Peduncles many 
flowered, about as long as the leaves; flowers imbricated ; leaves 
pinnate, with about ten pairs of oblong lanceolate downy leaflets ; 
stipules half arrow-shaped, nearly entire. 
