Yicia.'] 



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leaves pinnate with many pairs of equal elUptic-oblong leaflets, 

 the lower ones remote from the stem. E. B. S, t. 2844. 



Sandy ground near Grand Havre, Guernsey, but rare; Alderney; 

 Scilly. 0. 6—8. 



15. HippocREPis Linn. Horse-shoe Vetch. 



CaL campanulate. Keel about as long as the wings, acumi- 

 nate. Legume compressed, submembranaceous, of numerous 

 joints, which are curved like a horse-shoe, so that each legume 

 has many notches on one side. — Elowers uinlellate, axillary and 

 'nearly sessile. — Name: iTTTrocy a horse^ and KpriiriQ^ a shoe^ from 

 the form of the notches of the fruit. 



1. H, comosaJj. (tuftedH.) ; caaspitose, perennial, peduncles 

 longer than the leaves, flowers 5 — 8 umbellate, legumes curved 

 scabrous with glabrous joints and semicircular notches. E. B. 

 t. 31. 



Chalky and limestone banks and pastures, plentiful in the chalky 

 counties of England. Near Ayr, Scotland. %, 5 — 8. — Sleyns 

 4—6 inches high, much branched and woody at the base. Leaflets 

 4 — 6 pairs, with an odd one, obovate-elliptical. 

 Flowers pale-yellow, much resembling those of Lotus cornicnlatvs; 

 but the legume is quite different, and very remarkable: its notches are 

 about twice as broad as deep, whereas, in the foreign H, (jlauca, they 

 are much wider. 



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16. Onobrychis Tourn. Saint-foin. 



Keel truncate, longer than the wings. Legume sessile, of one 

 indehiscent joint, compressed, coriaceous, prickly, ci'ested or 

 winged. — Flowers racemose. — ]^amed : ovoc, an ass^ and ppvx(^, 

 to bray ; from that animal braying in order to get at it. 



1. 0. sativa Lam. (common S.) ] leaves pinnate nearly gla- 

 brous, legumes toothed on the lower margin with elevated 

 wrinkles on the sides, wings of the corolla as short as the calyx, 

 the keel as long as the standard, stem elongated. Hedysarum 

 Onobrychis i. ; E. B. t. 96. 



Dry chalky hills and open downs, in various parts of England. 



^. 6, 7. — A plant cultivated to great advantage in dry, and espe- 

 cially chalky, soils. 



Peduncles long. 



Tribe V. Vicie^. 



fi 



(9 and^). Legume 



dure not introjlexed. 



Leaves pinnate^ with the common 



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petiole not articulated upon the stem^ and ending in a tendril^ 

 hrisitlp /»^ leaflet ; sometimes wanting, but with a tendril or leaf- 



like petiole. (Gen. 17 



) 



17. ViciA Linn. Vetch. Tare. 

 Style filiform, with its upper part hairy all round, or with a 



