Vicia.'j XXVI. leguminos^ : vicie^. Ill 



reflexed glabrous, stems ascending, leaflets about 4 pairs bluntish 

 very glabrous, stipules unstained. E. B, t. 483. 



On the pebbly shore of Weymouth, Dorsetshire ; now extinct, 

 2/.. 7, 8. —Allied to the two next in its lierbage. This species we 

 do not possess. The above is the only station recorded for it in the 

 whole world, and there it is now lost. It may, therefore, reason- 

 ably be conjectured to be a peculiar form of some other species, per- 

 haps a glabrous state of F. lutea, which does grow on the shore at 

 Weymouth; but if the segments of the calyx are nearly equal, as may 

 be inferred from the figure in E. B, and Smith's description, it would 

 seem rather more allied to V, sordida W. et K. 



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5. V. liitea L. {rough-podded yellow F.) ; flowers sessile soli- 

 tary, calyx-teeth unequal, standard glabrous, legumes reflexed 

 hairy, stems diff'use, leaflets obtuse or acute, stipules coloured 

 upper ones ovate. E, 5- 1. 481. 



Rocky or stony ground especially near the sea. Cornwall, Suffolk, 

 Sussex, Derbyshire. On Glastonbury Tor-hill. Weymouth. Mearn- 

 shire ; between Montrose and Arbroath ; hills at Queensferry ; 

 Dunure Castle, Ayrshire, abundant. 11 . 6—8. — Steins 6 — 12 inches 

 high, weak. Leaflets elliptical-lanceolate, hairy beneath and at the 

 edges, 6 — 9 pairs on a petiole. Flowers large, yellow. Legumes com- 

 pressed. Seeds with a short Jiilum m this and K hyhrida. The 

 stipules in this, the last, and the next species, do not seem to diffei* in 

 form; they are hastate about the middle of the plant, but become 

 ovate upwards by the smallness of the lateral lobes. 



9. V. hyhrida L. {hairy -flowered yellow V.) ; flowers nearly 

 sessile solitary, calyx-teeth unequal spreading, standard hairy, 

 legumes reflexed hairy, steins ascending, leaflets abrupt, stipules 

 unstained upper ones ovate. E. B, t. 482. 



On Glastonbury Tor-hill. Swan Pool near Lincoln. %, 6, 7, 

 Flowers yellow, reddish externally. — Similar to the last, but distin- 

 guished by its hairy standard* 



* * Peduncles elongated, few-floivered. Calyx gibbous at flie base. Style 



with a tuft of hairs beneath the stigma. Aracus. 



7. V. Bithynica L. {rough-podded purple V.) ; peduncles 

 rather shorter than the leaves 1- or rarely 2-flowered, legumes 

 upright rough, upper petioles with two pairs of lanceolate leaflets, 

 stipules toothed. E. B. t. 1842. 



Bushy places in gravelly soil, mostly near . the sea, but rare. 

 Southern counties of England; also Essex, Worcester, Gloucester, 

 and Wales. If, . 7, S,— Flowers purple, all but the wings, which are 

 whitish. Leaflets varying much in breadth, sometimes elliptic-Ian- 

 ceolate, sometimes nearly linear : there is generally but one pair on 

 the lowest petioles. 



