viciA. 83 



** Upper part of the style hairy all over, the hairs rather 

 longer below the stigma but scarcely bearded. Calyx gibbous 

 at the base. 



6. V. Cracca (L.) ; peduncles long many-flowered, leaflets 

 lanceolate mucronate silky in about 10 pairs, stip. half-arrow- 

 shaped entire, calyx-teeth shorter than their tube, upper pair 

 minute, the others subulate, standard sinuated at about the mid- 

 dle of each side, its limb and claw equally long, pods linear-ob- 

 long smooth.— B. B. 1168. St. 31. 6.— St. 3—4 feet long. Fl. 

 blue variegated with purple. Seeds subglobose, black. Hilum 

 linear, extending J round the seed. — Hedges. P. VI. — VIII. 



*** Style bearded below the stigma, in other respects glabrous 

 or uniformly hairy all over in its upper part : calyx gibbous 

 at the base on the upper side. 



7- V. bithynica (L.) ; peduncles falling short of the leaves 

 I — 2-flowered, Its. of upper I. in 2 pairs elliptic-lanceolate mucro- 

 nate or linear-lanceolate acute, stip. half-arrowshaped toothed, 

 calyx-teeth longer than their tube lanceolate-subulate, ^ods linear- 

 oblong hairy.— E. B. 1842. St. 32. 5.— St. 12—18 in. long. 

 Fl. almost always solitary, purple. " Seeds globose, speckled 

 with black and grey; hilum oval." Upper part of the style 

 hairy all over. The inland plant has broader leaflets and more 

 cut stip. than the maritime one. — Bushy places on a gravelly 

 soil. P. VII. VIII. E. 



8. V. sepium (L.) ; fl. 4 — 6 in small axillary nearly sessile 

 clusters, leaflets in 4 — 8 pairs ovate obtuse mucronate gradually 

 smaller upwards on the petiole, stip. half-arrowshaped undivided 

 or lobed, calyx-teeth unequal shorter than their tube, 2 upper 

 ones curved upwards, pods linear-oblong glabrous. — E. B. 1515. 

 St. 31. 16. — St. about 2 feet high. Fl. purplish. Calyx hairy. 

 Hilum linear, extending about f round the seed. Upper part 

 of the style nearly or quite glabrous, bearded. L. more or less 

 hairy, leaflets sometimes ovate-lanceolate truncate. — Woods and 

 hedges. P. VI.— VIII. 



9. V. lavigata (Sm.) ; fl. solitary axillary, leaflets elliptic- 

 oblong rounded mucronate in 4 pairs, stip. cloven, calyx-teeth 

 nearly equal as long as the tube subulate, standard glabrous, pods 

 compressed oblong glabrous. — E. B. 483. — St. suberect, 3 — 4 in. 

 to 1 foot long. Fl. pale purple. Seeds oblong, brovm, attached 

 by one end. I have not seen specimens. — On the pebbly beach 

 at Weymouth formerly, but now lost. P. VII. VIII. E. 



10. V. hybrida (L.) ; fl. solitary axillary, leaflets obovate emar- 

 ginate apiculate in 6 — 7 pairs, calyx-teeth unequal spreading 

 subulate longer than their tube, standard hairy, pod ovate-oblong 



