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in the remains of the style bent upwards. Seeds ^ inch across, 

 dim, brownish-black. Plant bright pea-green, glabrous. 



Wood Vetch. 



Freucli, Vesce des Bols. German, Wald Erve. 



This beautiful plant is well known to all lovers of wild flowers as a favourite object. 

 In foliage, flowers, and grace, it is not exceeded by any of our climbing plants. Scott| 

 was alive to its charms when he wrote, — 



" And where profuse the Wood Vetch clings 

 Round ash and elm in verdant rings ; 

 Its pale and azure peucill'd flower 

 Should canopy Titauia's bower." 



Section III.— EU-VICIA. Coss. 



Leaves with many pairs of leaflets. Peduncles very short, 

 scarcely exceeding the pedicels, axillary, 2- to 6-flowered or scarcely 

 observable when the flowers are solitary or in pairs. Flowers race- 

 mose or sub-solitary. Style bearded with a tuft of long hairs 

 below the stigma on the outer side. Pods stipitate and rather 

 short, or sessile and elongated. 



SPECIES VII.— VI CIA SEPIUM. Linn, 

 Plate CCCLXXXVIII. 



Rootstock creeping, stoloniferous. Stem weak, climbing or 

 trailing. Leaves with 5 to 8 pair of oval or ovate leaflets, truncate 

 or sub-truncate and mucronate at the apex ; common petiole ter- 

 minating in a branched tendril. Stipules half-lunate, strongly 

 toothed, the upper ones half-sagittate and nearly entire, the upjjer- 

 most oblong-lanceolate, entire. Peduncles much shorter than the 

 leaves, with 2 to 5 (usually 4) spreading-reflexed flowers in a very 

 short compact unilateral raceme. Pedicels shorter than the calyx- 

 tube. Calyx hairy, with the teeth unequal, shorter than the tube, 

 which is more convex on the upper than lower side, the 3 lower 

 ones deltoid, suddenly acuminated near the base into subulate, the 

 2 upper ones shorter, broader at the base, and curved upwards. 

 Standard glabrous, twice as long as the calyx. Pods ascending 

 or spreading, stipitate on a gynophore shorter than the calyx- 

 tube, oblong, slightly compressed, acuminated at the apex into a 

 rather long sharp beak slightly curved downwards, glabrous. 

 Seeds sub-globular, with the hilum two-thirds the circumference of 

 the seed. 



