'280 DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Vicia. 



V. sylvatica multiflora maxima. Rail Syn. 322. 



V. multiflora maxima perennis, tetro odore, floribus albentibus, 

 lineis caeruleis striatis. Pluk. Jlmng.387. PhyLt.7l.fA. 



V. major species, quae altius conscendit. Moris.v.2. 61, between 

 1 and 2. 



In woods and hedges, chiefly in the more mountainous parts of 

 Britain. 



Not uncommon in Westmoreland, Cumberland, Worcestershire, 

 Derbyshire, the north of Yorkshire, South Wales, and the south 

 of Scotland. Found by the Rev. Mr. Hemsted in a wood near 

 Newmarket. James Bobart the younger is said to have met 

 with it in Oxfordshire, which Dr. Sibthorp's Flora confirms. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root creeping. Herb smooth ; not hairy as described in Morison. 

 Stems numerous, much branched, climbing to the height of 6 or 

 7 feet, and spreading widely, decorating the bushes which sup- 

 port them with a profusion of delicate _/owers, elegantly varie- 

 gated with blue and white, streaked with grey. Tendrils branch- 

 ed. LeqfletsWghi green, numerous, opposite or scattered, oval 

 with a small point. Stipulas fringed with numerous deep and 

 slender teetli. Fl. numerous, in clusters longer than the leaves, 

 supported by quadrangular stalks. Cal. rather bell-shaped, with 

 unequal teeth. Standard notched. Legume scarcely more than 

 an inch long, bright brown, minutely dotted, but not rough. 

 Seeds about 4, roundish. 



One of our most elegant wild plants, well worthy to decorate shrub- 

 beries, or to be trained over a treillis or bower. 



2. V. Cracca. Tufted Vetch. 



Stalks many-flowered. Flowers imbricated. Leaflets lan- 

 ceolate, downy. Stipulas half-arrow-shaped, mostly en- 

 tire. 



V. Cracca. Linn. Sp. PL 1035. mild. v. 3. 1098. FL Br. 769. 

 Engl. Bot. V. \7.t. 1168. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 54. Mart. Rust. 

 t.\\7. Hook. Scot 214. FL Dan. L 804. 



V. n. 424. HalLHisL v.\.]84. 



V. perennis multiflora spicata cserulea sepiaria. Moris, v. 2. 6i. 

 sect. 2. L4.f. 1. 



Cracca. Raii Syn. 322. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. L 49. 



In hedges, thickets, osier-grounds and bushy low meadows, com- 

 mon. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root creeping. Stems 2 or 3 feet high, furrowed, rather downy, 

 climbing by means of their long many-branched tendrils, by 

 which they choke and overtop other herbs. Leaflets numerous, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, downy or rather silky on both sides. Stipulas 

 each of 2 lanceolate spreading acute lobes, downy, occasionally 

 toothed. Fl. numerous, in dense clusters, on angular hairy 



