legumin6s7e 



4-angled, or slightly compressed, straight or curved, contracted 

 at the joints. (Name, a diminuti\'e irom lorlma, a crown, from 

 the form of the inflorescence.) 



I. C. vdria (Crown-vetch). — A trailing plant, with creeping 

 roots ; stems slender, angular, i — 5 feet long ; leaves 2 — 3 in. long, 

 of II — i.^, oblong-elliptic, cuneate, muoronate leaflets, the lower 

 pair remote from the stem, glabrous, "pea-green ; stipules free ; 



iriniels 3 — 20 -flowered; 

 flowers pink and white, or 

 whife, generally with dark 

 violet beak to the keel ; 

 pethls rather long-clawed ; 

 pedieels longer than the calyx- 

 — On waste ground, or dry 

 wood-sides on limestone, 

 often naturalised, but appar- 

 ently indigenous in Kent.^ 

 Fl. June — November. Pe- 

 rennial. 



\<^. Arthp-OLC'ipiuw (Joint- 

 vetch). —Slender, glabrous 

 herbs, with imparipinnate 

 leaves ; small yellow fliwers 

 in stalked axillary umbels 

 without leafy bracts ; calyx 

 tubular; keel hlMnl; stamens 

 dia'delphous ; foil slender, 

 straight or curved, sub- 

 cylindric, many - jomted, 

 scajcely contracted between 

 the joints. (Name from the 

 CSreek arthros, a joint, tobos, 

 a pbd.) 



I. -I. pi nil a til III (Sand 

 Joint - vetch). — A small, 

 glabrous, glaucous plant, with small ykA\o\\ floicers : no leaf 

 the head of flowers; and 10 — 14-jointed, straight /('(/,f, 

 y constricted at the joints. — Occurs in the Scilly and 

 el Islands. — in. June — August. Annual. 



ijlfl'(icRi^:i'is COMOS \ {Tii/lcd tlorscsJioc-Tictch'). 



nearU' 

 below 

 scarcel 

 Clianii 



16. UiprocRKPis (Horseshoe-A'etch). -^Low-growing, glabrous 

 herbs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets many ; flo-aiers vellow ; petals 

 long-clawed ; keel incurved, pointed ; stamens diadclpilious ; pod 



