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** 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. Crac'ca (L.) ; ped. long many-flowered, Its. lanceolate 

 mucronate silky in about 10 pairs, stip. half-airowsliaped entire, 

 calyx-teeth shorter than their tube, upper pair minute, others 

 subulate, standard sinuate at about the middle of each side, its 

 limb and claw equally long, pods linear-oblong smooth. — E. B, 

 1168. St. 31. 6.— St. 3—4 feet long. Fl. blue varied with 

 purple. Seeds subglobose, black. Hile linear, extending 5 

 round the seed.— Hedges. P. VI.— VIU. E. S. I. 



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

 uniformly hairy all over its upper part ; calyx gibbous at the 

 base on the upperside. 



7. V. bithyn'ica (L.) ; ped. falling short of the leaves 1 — 2- 

 flowered. Its. of upper I. in 2 pairs elliptic-lanceolate mucronate or 

 linear-lanceolate acute, stip. half-arrowahaped toothed, calyx- 

 teeth longer than their tube lanceolate-subulate, pods linear- 

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

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

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

 all over. The inland plants have broader leaflets and more cut 

 stip. than those found near the sea. — ^Bushy places on a gravelly 

 soil, rare. P. VH. Vm. E. 



8. V. sepium (L.) ; _/?. 4 — 6 in small axiUary nearly sessile 

 clusters, leaflets in 4—8 pairs ovate blunt 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. Oalyx hairy. 

 Hile linear, extending about | round the seed. Upper part of 

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

 haii'v, leaflets sometimes ovate-lanceolate truncate. — Woods 

 and hedges. P. VL-VHI. E.S.I. 



\V.? lamgdta (Sm.) ; ^. solitary axillary, leaflets eUiptic-ob- 

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

 equal as long as the tube subulate, standard glabrmts, pods com- 

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

 1 foot long. Fl. pale purple. — Perhaps a state of V. lutea. 

 Pebbly beach at Weymouth, now lost. P. VH. YHI.J E. 



9. V. hyb'rida (L.) ; fl. solitary axillary, leaflets ohovate emar- 

 ginate apiculate in 5 — 7 pairs, calyx-teeth unequal spreading 

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



