CLASS XVIT. ORDER III.] VICIA. 1001 
on a short peduncle, almost erect, a pale blue, whitish, or sometimes 
yellow, quite smooth. Culya tubular, with unequal awl-shaped 
teeth. Legume reflexed, tumid, quite smooth. Seeds sub-globose, 
dark brown. 
Habitat—Sandy coast in the South of England; near Weymouth, 
Dorsetshire. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
Nearly allied to the two former species, from which it is readily 
distinguished by its entire smoothness, its obtuse or roundish pointed 
leaves, never notched, its smaller stipules, and pendulous smooth pods. 
12. V. se'pium, Linn. (Fig. 1165.) Bush Veteh. Flowers in short 
axillary racemes of about four; leaves with about eight pairs of ovate 
leaflets, gradually becoming smaller upwards upon the petioles; 
vexillum smooth; calyx teeth unequal, awl-shaped, from a broad 
base, the two upper ones short, and arched inwards. 
English Botany, t. 1515.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 286.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 272.—Lindley’s Synopsis, p. 85. 
Root fibrous. Stem angular, furrowed, smooth, but little branched, 
about two feet long. Leaves with channeled tapering footstalks, 
terminating in branched tendrils, and supporting the plant upon 
those around it, leaflets in from four to ten pairs, opposite or alter- 
nate ovate, or elliptic ovate, gradually smaller towards the end of the 
footstalk, dark green, paler beneath. Stipules ovate, or two lobed, 
acute, each with a dark brown spot on the under side. Inflorescence 
axillary racemes of from four to six flowers, all turned one way, 
Calyx tubular, hairy, the teeth unequal, awl-shaped from a broad 
base. Corolla a blueish purple, often variegated, sometimes white. 
Legumes ascending, or erect, oblong, oblique, smooth, black, about an 
inch long. Seeds several globose, smooth. 
Habitat --Thickets, under hedges, &c.; common. 
Perennial ; flowering in May and June. 
The Bush Vetch isa very variable plant as to size, and the number 
of leaflets upon a leaf, as well as the colour of its flowers, variations 
caused by the kind of soil, and the more or less exposed situation in 
which they have grown. It does not appear ever to have been culti- 
vated in this country, though in Germany we have seen it grown in 
considerable quantities, and cut green for cattle; but we could not 
ascertain that it possessed any advantages over the V. sativa, but 
probably is equally as useful, and perhaps better suited for damp 
shady situations. 
