394 DTADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



deeply and acutely denticulated, and the dents 

 bearded : the leaves have eight or ten pair of 

 Oval pinn^ growing commonly alternate, the 

 middle nerve of each pin??^ terminated in a point 

 or fpinule : the tendrils are bifid and greatly 

 curled : the floral ftalks arife from the ai^ of iha 

 leaves, are four or fwe inches long, and bear a 

 fpike of 15 or 20 white pendulous flowers, 

 ftreaked with blue veins : the c^^rina or keel-pe- 

 tal is obtufe, and blue at the apex : the pod is 

 fmooth, but little longer than the flower, and 

 contains from four to fix globular feeds. 



n-^cca 2. VICIA peduncuhs multifioris, floribus imbricatis, 

 foliolis lanceolatis pubefcentibus, flipulls inte- 

 gris. Sp, pi. 1035. {Rivin, t. 49. Parkins. 1072. 

 Moris, hift, f. 2. /. 4./. \. fed ?7Jale.) 



Tufted Vetch. Jnglis. 



Peafair-luch na coille. Gaulis. 



In corn fields, paflures, and builiy places frequent, 

 If. VII. VIII. 



The ftalk is two or three feet high, furrow'd, weak 

 and branched : the leaves are pinnated with 12 

 or more pairs of pinn^^ of a narrow-eHiptical 

 form^ hairy, defiex'd, rather blunt at the end, 

 the nerve terminating in a fhort fpinule : the ten- 

 drils are greated, branched and curled i the 

 flowers grow 30 or more in a long pendulous 

 fpike, all on the fam.e fide of the fl:alk, imbri- 

 cated downwards, fmall, but make an elegant 



appearance. 



