210 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Hippocrepis 



in pairs. Legume smooth, with four seeds. Leaflets 

 oblong, bluntish. E. B. 1223. C. 1. 55. 



Cor7ifieIdsy hedges, thickets. 



An, June. 



Stem branclied, weak, climljing, square. Le(^. numerous, alter- 

 nate, their common stalk ending in a branched tendril. Fl. on 

 long-, slender, axillary stalks, drooping, pale blue, veiny. Cal. 

 hairy. 

 The names Smooth Tare, and Hairy Tare, are applicable to the 



pods alone, for the herbage is most hairy in the Erv, tetrasper- 



mum, or Smooth Tare. 



E. hirsiitum. Hairy-podded T. Clusters many-flowered. 

 Legumes hairy, with two seeds. Leaflets abrupt. 

 E. B. 970. C. 1. 54. V. sylvestris, sive Cracca, 

 minima. G. E. 1228. 



Cornfields, and other cultivated ground. 



An. June. 



Stems branched, nearly smooth, climbing by branched tendrils. 

 Leafl. numerous, alternate, elliptic, notched at the end. FL 

 from about five to seven, on short partial stalks, on a longish, 

 axillary, common stalk, small, pale blue, with a dark spot on 

 each side of the point of the keel. Pods, drooping, short. 



ORNI'THOPUS. Bird's-foot„ 



O. perpusillus. Common JB. Leaves winged. Flowers 

 in heads, accompanied by a leaf. Legumes curved 

 inwards, beaded, E. B. 369- C. 6. 53. Ornitho- 

 podium minus. G. E. 1241. 



Sandy, gravelly pastures. * Between Shotover and Cuddesdon. Sb. 



An. June. 



Stems more or less trailing, leafy. Ls. winged, with an odd leaf- 

 let, small. Fl. stalkless, in little terminal heads. Standard, 

 and wings elegantly striped with red and white, Iceel greenish. 

 A small, and beautiful plant. 



HIPPOCRETIS. Horse-shoe-vetch. 



H. comosa. Tufted H. Legumes umbellate, rough ; 

 their joints bowed, serpentine, neither dilated, nor bor- 

 dered. E. B. 31. 



Dry, chalky banks. Bullingdon Green. Stokenchurch Hills. 



Burford Downs. Sb. Headington Quarry. Henley. Sx. 

 Per. 3Iay. 

 Stems numerous, traihng. Fl. pale yellow, streaked with brown. 



The singular figure of the pods must strike the most casual 

 observer. 



