98 EXGLISU BOTANY. 



Var. 3, BohuHli. Koch. 



Plate CCCXCIV. 



V. saliva, var. y, Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 85. BerUh. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 179. 

 V. Bobartii, Forster, in E. B. S. No. 2708. 

 V. angustifolia, Sm. Eug. Fl. Vol. III. p. 282. 



Stems slender. Upper leaves strap-shaped or linear. Flowers 

 often solitary. Pods 1 to 1^ inch long, not splitting the calyx. 



Var. a on the borders of fields, amongst corn, by roadsides, 

 and in recently disturbed ground or in light rich soil. Var. 3 iu 

 dry pastures, hedge-banks, and by roadsides. Both forms are 

 common and generally distributed in England ; more rare in Scot- 

 land, where they do not extend North of Moray. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring and Summer. 



Very like V. eu-sativa, but smaller. Stems from 6 inches to 

 2 feet high. The upper leaves very narrow iu var. 3, while those 

 of var. a ai)proach those of V. eu-sativa in shape and size, though 

 generally narrower, and less deeply notched at the apex. The 

 flowers are smaller, and have the standard not much paler than 

 the wings, and usually of a bright crimson. The pods are more 

 spreading, smaller, more cylindrical, black and usually glabrous 

 when ripe, and they have the imperfect partitions of cellular tissue 

 between the seeds only rudimentary. The seeds are much smaller, 

 and rather less compressed. The two varieties pass insensibly into 

 each other, and intermediates often occur. 



Common Wild Vetch. 



French, Vesce d, Feuilles £troites. German, Schmalbliittrige Wiche. 



SPECIES XL— VI CIA LATHYROIDES. Linn. 

 Plate CCCXCV. 



Rootstock none. Stems decumbent, spreading. Leaves with 

 2 to 4 pairs of wedgeshaped-obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong leaflets, 

 notched or truncate and apiculate at the apex ; common petiole 

 terminating in a subulate point or short simple tendril. Stipules 

 half-sagittate. Flowers axillary, solitary, ascending. Pedicels 

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

 hairy ; tube filiform, not gibbous at the base of the upper side ; 

 teeth equal, subulate, nearly as long as the tube. Standard gla- 

 brous, rather more than twice the length of the calyx-tube, with 

 the lamina roundish-oval. Pods ascending or spreading, sessile. 



