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spot underneath ; calyx cylindrical, with slender lanceolate teeth, as 
long as the tube; legume linear, smooth, spreading ; sceds globose, 
smooth. 
English Botany, t. 2614——Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. 
p- 271.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 282.—Lindley, Synopsis, Suppl. p. 
323.—V. Bobartii, Forst.—English Botany, t. 2708.—Lindley, Sy- 
nopsis, p. 84. 
The only characters by which this can be distinguished from many 
of the varieties of V. sativa, are its more slender habit, narrower 
linear leaflets, the stipules having the impressed dot on the under 
side pale or faintly coloured, not black, the legumes more spreading, 
and smooth. These, however, are not sufficiently permanent to 
render it a good species. 
Habitat—Dry banks and sandy places; not uncommon. 
Annual ; flowering in June. 
9. V. lutea, Linn. (Fig. 1162.) Rough Podded Yellow Vetch. 
Fowers nearly sessile, axillary, solitary, or in pairs; leaflets in from 
five to ten pairs, oblong, lanceolate ; vexillum smooth; calyx with 
unequal lanceolate teeth, the two upper ones much the smallest, and 
converging inwards ; legume elliptic oblong, hairy, the hairs with a 
bulb at the base ; stipules with a dark spot on the under side. 
English Botany, t. 481—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 284.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 271.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 85. 
Root of creeping fibrous branches. Stems several, much divided 
at the base, slender, angular, striated, spreading, smooth, or scattered 
over with hairs, leafy, from one to two feet long. JZeaves with the 
common footstalk channeled, and terminating in a branched tendril, 
leaflets of the lower leaves ovate, of the upper oblong lanceolate, 
downy beneath, the mid-rib terminating in a bristle point, in from 
five to ten pairs, opposite or alternate. Stipules half arrow-shaped, 
small, having on the under side an impressed dark brown spot. IJn- 
florescence one or two nearly sessile flowers in the axis of the leaves. 
Calyx tubular, with an oblique base and mouth, nearly smooth 
ribbed, the teeth unequal, the three lower lanceolate, taper pointed, 
the two upper ones much smaller, short, and cnrved over each other. 
Corolla of a pale sulphur colour, striated with grey, erect, smooth. 
Legume elliptic oblong, tumid, clothed with spreading hairs, each hair 
formed of alternately compressed joints, arising from a tumid glan- 
dular base. Seeds ovate, dark brown, velvety. 
Habitat.—Rocky and stony places, especially near the sea in 
Suffolk, Sussex; on Glastonbury Tor-hill, Mearnshire; between 
Montrose and Arbroath; hills at Queen’s Ferry and Dunure Castle ; 
abundant. 
Perennial; flowering in June and July. 
Readily distinguished from the following species, to which it is 
nearly allied, by its large smooth yellow flowers, the hairs of the 
