208 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Vicia. 



pair of sword-shaped leaflets. Stem winged. E. B. 

 805. C. 6. 52. 



Groves, thickets, moist hedges. In a Copse under Shotover Hill. Sb. 



Side of the ditch round HeadLngton Copse, not far from Marston 



Lane. Bx. (About Bagley Wood. Bx.) 

 Per. Jiaie. 

 Stems smooth, five or six f. Fl. many together, on long, axillary 



stalks : variously tinted with purple and violet, with a gi-een 



tinge. PVings violet. 



(L. latifolius. Broad-leaved Everlasting P. Stalks 

 many-flowered. Tendrils branched, each bearing a pair 

 of elliptical leaflets. Stem winged. E. B. 1108. 

 L. major latifohus. G. E. 1229- 



TVoods, rare ; by some supposed a doubtful native. Spernal Park. 



Warwickshire. Pn. Fl. 

 Per. July, August. 

 Larger, smooth, Fl. large ; pet. all rose-coloured.) 



L. pahistris. Blue Marsh V. See Appendix. 

 VrCIA. Vetch. 



* Stalks lengthened out, many-floivered. 



V. sylvatica. Wood V. Stalks many-flowered. Leaf- 

 lets elliptical. Stipulas crescent-shaped, deeply toothed. 

 E. B. 79. 



TVoods, hedges. * Medley Grove. Sb. Hedges by the side of the 



road, going from Burford to Wychwood Forest. Between Ful- 



brook, and the Hit or Miss public-house. Bx. 

 Per. June. 

 Stems very numerous, weak, zigzag, slightly furrowed, six to seven 



f. Stip. tipped with a minute bristle. Fl. whitish, elegantly 



streaked vvntli a purple, and greyish blue. 



An elegant plant. 



V. Cracca. Tufted V. Stalks many-flowered. Flowers 

 tiled. Leaflets spear-shaped, downy. Stipulas half- 

 arrow-shaped, mostly entire. E. B. 1168. C. 5. 54. 



Hedges, thickets, osier grounds, low meadows. 



Per. June. 



Stem when climbing, three or four f. Each leaf consists of many 

 spear-shaped, entire leaflets. Fl. numerous, violet. Pods hang- 

 ing down, light-brown. 

 Rather an ornamental plant, with its close long spike of purple 



flowers. At the extremity of the keel, two deep purple spots. 

 * * Floivers axillary, nearly stalkless. 



V. sativa. Common V. Flowers nearly stalkless, 



