274 DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Latbyrus. 



distinct. Anth. small, roundish. Germ, linear-oblong, 

 compressed. Style ascending, flattened vertically, di- 

 lated upwards, acute at tbe point. Stigma longitudinal, 

 downy, running along tbe dilated upper balf of tbe style. 

 Legume long, eitber cylindrical or compressed, pointed, 

 of 1 cell, and 2 rather rigid valves. Seeds several, round- 

 ish, or angular. 

 A numerous herbaceous genus, annual or perennial. Stem 

 climbing, by means of the tendrils terminating \he foot- 

 stalks. Leaflets 2 or more, entire, rarely altogether want- 

 ing ; leaves very rarely simple. Stipnlas mostly arrow- 

 shaped, and rather large ; seldom very small. Fl. stalk- 

 ed, axillary, either solitary, in pairs, or in clusters ; either 

 crimson, purplish, blue, or yellow. The herbage com- 

 monly afibrds good fmlder ; the seeds are scarcely used 

 for any purpose. 



* Flovoers mostly solitary. 



1. L. Aphaca. Yellow Vetchling. 



Stalks single-flowered. Tendrils without leaves. Stipulas 

 between heart- and arrow-shaped. 



L. Aphaca. Unn. Sp. PI. 1029. fVilld. v. 3. 10/7. Fl. Br. 7G3. 



Engl.Bot.v. 17. t. 1167. Curt. Lond.fasc.5. i.5I. Purt. v. 1. 



339. t. 3. 

 L. n. 442. HaU.Hisf.v.\.\9\. 

 Vicia lutea foliis convolvuli minoris. Bunli. Pin. 34.5. Moris.v.2. 



62.sect.2.t.4.f.7. 

 V. quae Pitine Anguillarse, lata siliqua, flore luteo. Banh. Hist. 



t). 2. 416./. 417. 

 Aphaca. Rail Syn. 320. Mill. Ic. 29. t. 43. Ger. Em. 1250. f. 



Lob. lev. 2. 70. f. Dod.Pempt.f)Aa.f. 

 Orobanche legumen. Dalcch. Hist. 484. 



In the borders of sandy or gravelly fields, but rarely. 



In Calnbridgeshire. Relhan. Oxfordshire. Sibth. About Totten- 

 ham and Enfield. Curt, hi a gravel pit between Norwich and 

 Brooke. Mrs. Kett. Near Forncet, Norfolk. Mr. J. Fox. 



Annual. June — 4'ugust. 



A little, smooth, pale glaucous- green herb, branching- from the 

 root into several weak stems, either procumbent, or climbing by 

 means of numerous, alternate, simple tendrils, each of which 

 springs from between a pair of large stipulas, of a broad arrow- 

 shape, nearly entire. There are no true leaves or leaflets, ex- 

 cept that now and then, on young plants, near the root, a pair 

 of an elliptical shape, on one or two rudiments cf tendrils, very 

 rarely on a real tendril, may be observed. But these soon 



