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XXYL LEGUMINOS^ : VICIE^. 



[ Vicia. 



Calyx gihhous at the base. 



**** Peduncles elongated, many -flowered, 



Cracca. 



8. V. Cracca L. {tufted F.) \ peduncles many-flowered lono-er 

 than the leaves, flowers imbricated, leaflets lanceolate slio-htly 

 hairy with tendrils, stipules half arrow-shaped nearly entiv/ 



Bushy places. % . 6 — 8. — ^tem 2 — 3 ft. high. Flowers numerous 

 crowded, drooping and imbricated, of a fine bluish-purple. Side 

 hairy all round in the upper part; hairs rather longer on the under 

 side below the stigma, but scarcely forming a tuft, as in the true 

 Vicia, 



9. V. O'rolus DC. {Wood hitter F.) ; leaves pinnate hairy 

 with 7—10 pairs of ovate-oblong acute leaflets without tendrils 

 stipules half arrow-shaped slightly toothed at the base, peduncles 

 many -flowered at length longer than the leaves, stem branched 

 decumbent hairy. Orobus sylvaticus L.: E. _B, t. 518. 



Rocky and mountainous woods and thickets in the north, 11. 5 Q 

 — Flowers purplish-white in unilateral racemes. Style filiform 

 equally pubescent all round its upper part. 



^. sylvdtica L. (Wood F.) ; peduncles many-flowered 

 than the leaves, leaflets elliptic-oblong mucronate, 

 stipules lunate deeply toothed at their base, tendrils branched 

 E. B. t. 79. 



lonwr 



Bushy places in mountainous countries, in Scotland, the north and 

 north-west of England, Wales, and Ireland. It has been found near 



Newmarket; and in Oxfordshire, and Kent. 2f. 6 — 8 Stems 



3 — 6 ft. high, climbing by means of its branching tendrils.. Leaflets 

 6 — 8 or 10 pairs. Flowers very beautiful, numerous, white, streaked 

 with bluish veins. Style equally pubescent all round towards the 

 st igma. 



*R*>i=:i= Peduncles elongated, feivflowered. Style equally pubescent all 

 round. Calyx equal at the base. Annual plants. £rvum. 



11. y. tetrasperma Lois, {slender T.) ; leaflets 3—6 pairs 



linear obtuse or acute, peduncles 1 



linear glabrous 4 



8-seeded. 



a. 



7-flowered, legumes oblong- 

 leaflets 4—6 pairs oblong 



linear obtuse mucronate, tendrils usually branched, peduncles 

 pointless or with a soft point as long as the leaves i ~ " 



— 6-seeded. ~ 



3-flowered, 



legumes 4 

 3 



Ervum Z. ; E, B. t. 1223. — /3. leaflets 

 -4 pairs narrow linear acute, tendrils simple, peduncles aris- 

 tate at length about twice as lono- as the leaves 1 — 7-flowered, 

 legumes 5— 7-seeded. V. gracilis Lois. : E. B. S. t. 2904. 

 Ervum DC. 



F 



Corn-fields, hedges, &c. — a. not uncommon In England; more 

 rare in Scotland, as at St. David's, Fifeshire; Ruthven, near Perth; 



