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lar£,^er. The plant from "Weymouth, in Smith's Herbarium, has 

 the jiods more nearly glabrous, and evidently approaches the next 

 sub-species. 



Rough-podded Yellow Vetch. 



French, Vesce Jaune. German, Gelbe WicJ^e. 



Sub-Species? II.— Vicia laevigata. Sin. 



I'late CCCXC. 



V. sativa, var. Beyith. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 179. Hook. & Am. Brit. FI. ed. viiL 

 p. 111?. 



Plant entirely glabrous. Stipules all green. Calyx-teeth un- 

 equal, but rather less so than in the preceding sub-species. Pods 

 without hairs, quite smooth or faintly papillose-tuberculated. 



On the pebbly beach at Weymouth, Dorset, but now extinct. 



[England.] " Perennial," (Sm.) Summer and Autumn. 



Extremely like V. eu-lutea but smaller, and glabrous, with the 

 stems less striated, the leaflets rather blunter at the apex, firmer 

 in texture, and deeper green. Seeds larger and more mottled. 

 " Elowers pale blue or whitish, seldom yellowish." (Smith.) This 

 writer also says that the calyx-teeth are generally more equal in 

 length ; but on examining the specimens in his Herbarium I can 

 see but little difference in this respect between the two plants. 



I have seen no specimens besides those in the Smithian Her- 

 barium, wliich contains both the wild plant from Weymouth and 

 larger cultivated examples from Dr. Goodenough's garden. The 

 Weymouth specimens of V. lutea in Smith's Herbarium approach 

 V. liBvigata, and it is very desirable that this resemblance should 

 be further investigated by botanists in that neighbourhood. 



Mr. Bentham places V. laevigata under V. sativa, to which it 

 bears no resemblance, so that I conclude he has not examined 

 Smith's specimens. 



Smooth-podded Sea Vetch. 



SPECIES IX.— VICIA HYBRID A. Linn. 

 Plate CCCXC'I. 



Rootstock none. Stems weak, climbing or trailing. Leaves with 

 5 to 7 \)CAr of oblong-obovate or oblong-oblanceolate leaflets, more 

 or less deeply notched at the apex, with a small point in the centre 

 of the notch ; common petiole terminating in a branched tendril. 

 Stipules half-hastate. Flowers axillary, solitary, erect or ascending. 

 Pedicels shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx membranous, slightly 

 hairy ; tube gibbous at the base on the upper side; teeth unequal, 



