104 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



near Southend. A specimen has been sent me labelled " Vicia 

 Bithynica, Budleigh Salterton, Devon," in the handwriting of 

 Miss Carpenter ; but probably there has been some transposition 

 of labels. 



England. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stems 1 to 4 feet high, angular, and furnished with 2 rather 

 narrow hei'baceous strips or wings. Petioles very short. Leaflets 

 1 to 2 inches long, varying much in breadth, frequently there is 

 only a single pair, but if there be a second, the leaflets are smaller 

 than those of the lower pair ; tendrils bent downwards. Stipules 

 rather small, slender, with long acute am-icles parallel to the stem. 

 Peduncles 2 to 5 inches long, generally 2-flowered, with one flower 

 a little above the other. Pedicels about as long as the calyx. 

 Flowers spreading, -| inch long, bright-crimson, with the keel and 

 wings paler ; standard with the lamina roundish, spreading at right 

 angles to the claw, and having the sides folded back. Style much 

 dilated towards the stigma. Pods shortly stipitate, 1 to 1^ inch long, 

 much compressed. Seeds few, roundish, compressed, brown, gran- 

 ulated with elongate papillae ; hilum oval, one-twelfth the circum- 

 ference of the seed. Plant greyish-green, slightly hairy, the pods 

 clothed with rather long hairs with papUlse at the base. 



Hairy V-etchling. 



French, Gesse Vclue. German, Behaarte Platterhse. 



SPECIES IV.— LATH YRUS PRATENSIS. Linn. 

 Plate CCCC. 



Rootstock extensively creeping. Stems climbing or trailing, 

 slightly winged. Leaves with 1 pair of elliptical or strapshaped- 

 elliptical acute leaflets ; common petiole terminating in a simple 

 or branched tendril. Stipules large, lanceolate-ovate or lanceolate, 

 acuminate, sagittate at the base \rii\\ slender acute auricles. 

 Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, 3- to 12-flowered. 

 Flowers spreading, in a compact raceme. Calyx-teeth triangular, 

 subulate towards the apex, slightly unequal, about as long as the 

 tube. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx. Pods linear- 

 oblong, compressed, nearly straight, when mature glabrous, or 

 clothed with short curled hairs without papillse at their base. 



In meadows, pastures, hedges, and borders of woods. Very 

 common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stems angular, with wings narrower than its diameter, much 



