LEGUMINIFERiE. 9."» 



all su1)ulato, the upper pair rather shorter than the calyx-tube, the 

 3 lower ones a little exceeding it. Standard hairy on the outside, 

 three or four times as long as the calyx-tube, with an oblong-oval 

 lamina. Pods spreading or sprcading-reflexed, substipitate, on a 

 gynophore much shorter than the calyx-tube, oblong, scarcely 

 compressed, acuminated at the apex into a rather long sharp beak 

 curved downwards, clothed with long hairs but without papillae, 

 at length glabrous. Seeds globular, smooth, with shallow punc- 

 tures ; hilum oval, twice as long as broad, one-sixth the circumfer- 

 ence of the seed. 



Formerly found at Glastonbury Tor Hill, Somerset, where it 

 grew with V. lutca ; but it appears to be now lost. 



[England.] Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Resembles V. lutea, but is stouter, with the leaflets broader 

 towards the apex, where they are retuse or notched. Calyx with 

 the teeth more slender, longer, and less unequal. Flowers 1 inch 

 long, yellow, frequently veined with purple; the standard always 

 hairy. The seeds, for which I am indebted to Mr. H. C. "Watson, 

 are larger than those of the last species. I only possess cultivated 

 specimens raised from seed sent by Mr. T. B. Flower, said to be 

 derived from the descendants of the Glastonbury Tor plant. 



Sairy Floicered Vetch. 



SPECIES X.— VICIA SATIVA. Linn. 

 Plates CCCXCII. CCCXCIII. CCCXCIV. 



Rootstock none. Stems rather weak, climbing, trailing or 

 ascending. Leaves with 4 to 7 pairs of obovate, elliptical, or linear 

 leaflets, notched, truncate or abruptly acuminated and mucronate 

 at the apex ; common petiole terminating in a branched tendril. 

 Stipules half-hastate or lanceolate, denticulated or entire. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary or in pairs, ascending or spreading-ascending. 

 Pedicels much shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx herbaceous, 

 slightly hairy ; tube gibbous at the base on the upper side ; teeth 

 equal, subulate, about as long as the tube ; standard glabrous, 

 thrice as long as the calyx-tube, with the lamina roundish. Pods 

 ascending or spreading, sessile, sub-cylindrical, compressed, acumi- 

 nated at the apex into a rather long sharp beak, slightly curved 

 downwards, clothed with very short hairs but without papillae. 

 Seeds sub-globular, compressed, smooth, dim ; hilum linear, one- 

 fifth the circumference of the seed. 



