CLASS XVII. ORDER ITI. | VICIA. G95 
English Botany, t. 1168.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 280.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed 4. vol. i. p. 270.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 84. 
Root creeping. Stems from two to four feet long, climbing, 
slender, angular, furrowed, and more or less downy, branched, leafy, 
spreading. Leaves pinnate, the common footstalk furrowed, long, 
and terminating in branched tendrils, leaflets oblong, lanceolate, 
clothed with soft silky down, veiny, alternate on each side of the foot- 
stalk, or opposite in about ten pairs. Stipules small, half arrow- 
shaped, entire, or occasionally toothed. Inflorescence axillary racemes 
of numerous blue flowers, crowded at the end of a striated peduncle, 
as long or longer than the leaves, and mostly turned to one side. 
Calyx with the two upper teeth short, awl-shaped from a broad base, 
the lower ones longer, and more lanceolate. Corolla a beautiful blue 
colour, of various tints, and often purplish, vexillum with a broad 
dilated claw, as long as the limb. Legume linear, oblong, smooth. 
Habitat.— Hedges, thickets, bushy places, &c.; common. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
This is an extremely ornamental plant in our rural lanes and 
hedges, producing a rich profusion of beautiful variegated flowers, 
and climbing over and adorning, with luxurious elegance, the 
shrubs and the sturdy bushes of the heath. It is very variable 
in size and luxuriance, according to the kind of soil and situa- 
tion in which it grows. Some specimens which we collected in 
arvich meadow, near Sheffield, have the leaflets in the lower part of 
the stem ovate lanceolate, and almost smooth, the stem stout, deeply 
furrowed, and the peduncles longer, stouter, and bearing more nume- 
rous flowers than in the more frequent state of the plant; but in poor 
heathy soil we find it sometimes not a foot long, thin, slender, and 
the whole plant starved and dwarfish in its appearance. 
kk Peduneles elongated, few flowered. 
3. V. hirsu'ta, Koch. (Fig. 1156.) Hairy Tare. Peduncles two to 
eight flowered ; petioles terminating in a branched tendril, bearing 
about eight pairs of linear oblong obtuse or truncated leaflets ; 
stipules lanceolate, the lower ones half arrow-shaped and toothed ; 
legumes oblong, oblique, two seeded, and hairy. 
Koch. Flora Germanica et Helvitica, p. 191.—Hrvum hirsutum, 
Linn.—English Botany, t. 970.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 289.— 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 272.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 83. 
Fioot small, tapering. Stem angular, nearly smooth, branched, 
climbing, spreading, two to three feet high. Leaves numerous, the 
petioles long, slender, channeled, terminating in a branched tendril, 
and bearing about eight pairs of linear oblong obtuse truncated or 
notched leaflets, pale beneath the mid-rib, terminating in a short 
point, Stipules of the upper leaves janceolate, of the hae ones half 
arrow- shaped, and cut into slender teeth. Inflorescence axillary 
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