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By the fides of lakes, and in marfliy or boggy 

 grounds, but rare. %. VIL VIlI. 



The ftalk is two feet high, wing'd with two mem- 

 branes, weak and branched towards the top : the 

 leaves arc of an elliptic-lanceolate form, gene- 

 rally three pair upon a rib : the tendrils are tri- 

 fid : thejiipula are broad, femi-elliptical, acute 

 at both ends, and dcntated externally below the 

 middle : the BraHece are fmall and lanceolate t 

 the peduncles are three inches long, and produce 

 about fix or eight purple flowers, with veined 

 petals : the pods are fmooth and a littje com» 

 prefs'd. 



VICIA. Gen, ;>/. 873. 

 Stigma latere inferiore tranfverfe barbatum. 

 * Pedunculis elongatis, 

 fyhatica j, VICIA pedunculis multifloris, foliolis ovalibus, fli- 

 pulis denticulatis. Sp. pL 1035. (PluL Jim: t, 

 71,/. I. Haller, hifi.Jiirp, Hehet. v, i. n, 426. t, 

 12. p, lyi. fig. ad dextram •, Jed foL nimis acutis, 

 Oed. Dan. /. 277. opf.) 

 Tufted Wood- Vetch. Jnglis. 

 In flirubby places at the foot of mountains and 

 rocks, but not common, as undtv Salijhury-Craigs, 

 and at Cartland rocks, near Lanerk^ &c. %. VII. 

 VIII. 

 The ftalks of this elegant plant are angular, 

 branched, weak and climbing, three or even fix 

 feet, and have numerous leaves : the ftipuU are 



deeply 



