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XXVI. LEGUMINOS^ : VICIEJE. 



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Cultivated fields, rare: Essex; between Bath and Bristol 

 6, 1.-^Floivers pale, except the standard, which is bright crimson 



4. L. prateusis L. (il/m^Zow; F.) ; peduncles many-flowered 

 legumes obliquely veined, seeds smooth, tendrils with 2 Ian 

 ceolate 3-nerved leaflets, stipules arrow-shaped as laro-e'ls \C 



leaflet 



5 



calyx-teeth subulate, stem 

 E. B. t. 670. 



ft. 



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acutely angled without 



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Moist meadows and pastures, frequent. 2jL. 7, 8. Stems 9— 



long, clim!)ing. Floivers yellow. Legumes obliquely vci"necr 

 Seeds globose, with a small oblong Mlum. — Cattle are said to be verv 

 fond ot this common plant, ^ 



5. L, sylvestris L. {narrow-leaved E.) ; peduncles many, 

 flovyered, legumes reticulated with veins, seeds smooth, tendrils 

 with a pair of ensiform leaflets, calyx-teeth triangular-subulatp 



stem wini^ed^ 



E. B. t. 805, 



Thickets and hedges, in the middle and south of England. North 

 Wales. Shore near Whitehaven. Kirkcudbrightshire ; and banks of 

 the White Adder, Berwickshire, doubtfully wild. Salisbury Craigs 

 and coast of Angusshire, certainly not indigenous, 2jL, p_8 1 

 Stem 5—6 ft, long, broadly winged. Flowers large, greenish, with 



purple veins. Seeds compressed, with a long Mlum half surroundiii'T 

 them. * o 



6, L, natifdlius L. (hroad-leaved E.) ; peduncles many- 

 flowered, legumes reticulated with veins, seeds tubercled, 

 tendrils with 2 ovate-elliptical mucronate leaflets, stipules 

 semi-sagittate broad, stem winged, E. B. t, 1108, 



• Woods, rare, and perhaps always the outcast of gardens. Cam- 

 bridgeshire, Cumberland, Worcestershire, Bedfordshire, Gloucester- 

 shire Near Kirkcudbright, Scotland. 2^. 7, 8, — A well-known 

 chmber, and a great ornament of cottage gardens. Somewhat re- 

 semblmg the last, but with leaves much broader, /oz<;ers larger and 

 more purple, and seeds tubercled and wrinkled. 



*** Leaflets two or more pairs. 



6-flowercd, 



7. L, palustris L. (line Marsh V.) ; peduncles 3- 

 tendrils with 2—4 pairs of linear-lanceolate acute leaflets, 

 stipules half arrow-shaped lanceolate, stem winged. E.B.t. 169. 



Boggy meadows and thickets in several parts of England; near 

 London ; in Berkshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lanca'shire, York- 

 shire, Plampshire, Siifiblk, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk. North and 

 South Wales ; Galloway, Scotland. 2^ . 6—8. — Stem 2—3 ft. high, 



Leaflets about 2 inches long. Flowers bluish-purple. 



climbing. 



8. L. maritimus Big. {Sea-side E.) ; peduncles many-flow- 

 ered shorter than the leaves, tendrils with 3—4 pairs of oval 

 leaflets, stipules as large as the leaflets unequally cordato-hastate 

 with the angles acute, stem angled without win^-s. Pisura L: 



