VICIA. 



ar? white, or ftriated. The tendrils are never divided, nor 

 the leaflets more than fix. 



34. V. /a/fa. Rough-podded Yellow Vetch. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 1037. Willd. n. 32. Fl. Brit. n. 5. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 481. (V. fl^re ochroleuco, filiquis hirfutis propendenti- 

 bus ; Morif. ffft. 2. t. 21.) — Legumes folitary, nearly fef- 

 file, reflexed, hairy. Stems diffufe. Stipulas coloured. 



Standard fmooth Native of the pebbly fea-fhores of the 



fouth and eaft of England, as well as of France, Spain, 

 Italy, Barbary, Greece, and the Levant, flowering in July 

 and Augufl.. The root is perennial and creeping, much di- 

 vided. Stems diffufe, not much branched, fmooth, angular, 

 ftriated, from one to two feet long. Leaflets numerous, 

 elliptic-oblong, hairy beneath ; fometimes abrupt. Tendrils 

 much branched. Stipulas triangular, brown or reddifli. 

 Flowers long, pale yellow, ftreaked or Ilained with grey or 

 purple. Legumes ovate, pointed, an inch and half long, 

 rough with hairs fpringing from fmall tubercles. Seeds 

 from five to eight. Some of the Jlowers and legumes are often 

 fubterraneous, as in j^. amphicarpa, n. 3 1. 



35. V. hybrlda. Hairy-flowered Yellow Vetch. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 1037. Willd. n. 33. Fl. Brit. n. 6. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 482. Jacq. Auftr. t. 146 — Legumes fohtary, nearly 

 feflile, reflexed, hairy. Standard villous. Leaflets emargi- 



nate Native of bulhy places in Auftria, the fouth of 



France, and of England. Found chiefly in Somerfetfliire, 

 about Glaftenbury, flowering in June. This is nearly re- 

 lated to the lafl:, but th^Jlems are taller and more upright. 

 L,eajlets generally more obtufe than in lutea, though variable, 

 as in that and other Vicle. Stipulas always entirely green. 

 Back of Xhsjlandard clothed with yellow filky hairs. We 

 prefume not to fay how far this is really a diftinA fpecies, 

 though we have little faith in its being, as the name indicates, 

 a mule produftion. 



36. V. melanops. Black-eyed Yellow Vetch. Sm. Prodr. 



Fl. Grxe. Sibth. n. 1711. Fl. Graec. t. 70I, unpubl 



Legumes fohtary, reflexed, linear, fmooth. Stems diffufe. 

 Stipulas marked. Wings of the corolla depreffed, incum- 

 bent. — Found by Dr. Sibthorp in Laconia. The root 

 feems perennial. Herb very like the lall, but rather fmoother, 

 and the legumes differ effentially in their long narrow figure, 

 and fmooth furface. Floiuers of a dull greenifh-yellow ; 

 their ivings, which converge horizontally, tipped with a 

 very dark brown, ahnoft black. 



37. V. pannonka. Hungarian Yellowilh Vetch. Jacq. 

 Auftr. t. 34. Willd. n. 34. Ait. n. 19. (V. fylveftris 

 albo flore ; Cluf. Hift. v. 2. 235.) — Legumes ftalked, about 

 three together, hairy as well as the ftandard. Stipulas 

 marked. Native of meadows in Auftria and Hungary. 

 Annual. Said to have been cultivated in the Oxford gar- 

 den, in 1658. We have a fpecimen from Jacquin's own her- 

 barium, by which this fpecies appears to be very like V. hy- 

 brlda, efpt'cially in its hairy Jlandard; but the Jloivers are 

 paler, and grow two or three together. The calyx is 

 reddifh. Legumes dark brown when ripe, hairy, and (haped 

 like F". lutea and hybrida. Willdenow fpeaks of 3 variety 

 with \\o\et-co\o\xreAJlo'wers, the Vtcloldes unclnata, Moench. 

 Method. 136, which may be a diftindl fpecies, as the colour 

 is not altered by culture. We have no knowledge of any 

 fuch plant. 



38. V. laevigata. Smooth-podded Sea Vetch. Fl. Brit, 

 n. 7. Engl. Bot. t. 483. Willd. n. 35. Ait. n. 18. 

 (V. hybrida; Hudf. 319.) — Legumes feffile, folitary, re- 

 flexed, ovate, fmooth. Stems nearly upright. Leaflets 

 elliptical, very fmooth. — Found on the ftony fea-beach at 

 Weymouth, Dorfetfhire, flowering in July and Auguft. 

 We hare never met with a fpecimen from any other country, 



yet there is no doubt of the fpecies being perfeftly diftinft. 

 The root is perennial, with many flefliy knobs. Whole 

 plant entirely fmooth, efpecially the legume, which differs in 

 that refpeft from V. lutea, hybrida, and pannonlca, with all 

 which it agrees in fhape. The feeds are rarely more than 

 five. The Jlems are from fix to twelve inches long, much 

 lefs fpreading than thofe of lutea. Leaflets elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, hardly ever abrupt or emarginate. Tendrils branched. 

 Stipulas green, or pale brown. Calyx-teeth nearly equal. 

 Floruiers the llze of p''. lutea, varying between pale purplifti- 

 blue and yellow. Both Hudfon and Lightfoot knew this 

 fpecies well, but could not agree about its fynonyms. 



39. V.fordida. Dingy Vetch. " Waldft. ct Kitaib. 

 Hung." Willd. n. 36. — Legumes nearly feffile, in pairs, 

 reflexed, linear -oblong, reflexed at the point, fmoothifti. 

 Leaflets obovate-oblong, emarginate. Stipulas marked. — 

 Native of meadows in Hungary. Communicated by M. 

 Thouin to the writer of this. It flowered in Mr. Mackie's 

 garden, near Norwich, in 181 3. The roo/ is annual. Plant 

 totally diftinft from the laft, notwithftanding Willdenow's 

 doubts, being larger, with emarginate leaflets, feldom quite 

 fmooth : twin jloiuers of a dull or dirty yellow ; but par- 

 ticularly a much longer, linear, not ovate, legume, which, 

 though not hairy, is fomewhat roughifli to the touch, and 

 curved upwards, not downwards, at the point. 



40. V.peregrlna. Broad-podded Vetch. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 1038. Willd. n. 37. Ait. n. 20. (V. peregrina, anguf- 

 tiffimis fohis, filiqua lata glabra ; Pluk. Phyt. t. 233. f. 6.) 

 — Legumes folitary, on fliort ftalks, reflexed, ovate, fmooth. 

 Leaflets linear, very narrow, fmooth, abrupt, emarginate. — 

 Native of the fouth of France, from whence Linna:us re- 

 ceived fpecimens in the herbarium of Sauvages. Dr. Sib- 

 thorp found It in Caria. M. Thouin fent feeds to Kew 

 garden, in 1779. The plant is annual, flowering in July, 

 of a flcnder Imooth habit. Leaflets extremely narrow in a 

 wild ftate, with two divaricated terminal points ; in a luxu- 

 riant cultivated fpecimen they are rather wider, and more 

 obtufe, but fcarcely exceeding an inch in length ; they are 

 from feven to ten, feattered, on a ftalk ending in a divided 

 tendril. Flowers ftalked, pendulous, of a reddifli-purple, 

 fliorter and thicker than feveral of the preceding, and more 

 like thofe of Orobus tuberofus. Legume fliaped like V. lutea, 

 hybrida, &c. with a deflexed point, but longer, flatter, and 

 quite fmooth. Seeds fix in our fpecimens. A very dillinft 

 fpecies, little kuown to modern botanifts, of which a good 

 figure is wanted. 



41. V. vtonantha. Single-flowered Spur-ftalked Vetch. 

 Retz. Obf. fafc. 3. 39. WiUd. n. 38. Ait. n. 21. (V. 

 calcarata ; Desfont. Atlant. v. 2. 166 ; Willd now.) — Stalks 

 much fliorter than the leaves, fpurred under the folitary 

 flower. Leaflets lanceolate, obtufe. Stipulas divided. 

 Legumes fmooth, drooping. — Native of Barbary. A hardy 

 annual, flowering in July and Auguft. Herb fmooth. Stem 

 angular, decumbent, two feet long. Leaflets twelve or thir- 

 teen, gradually decreafing, obtufe with a point. Flower the 

 fize of V.fatl'va, red with blueilh veins. Seeds fix or feven. 

 Retzlus. The defcription of Desfontaines anfwers very 

 well to this, except that he fpeaks of the leaves as flightly 

 vill us, and of the flowers as pale blue, half the fize of 

 fatlva, to which fpecies neverthelefs he thinks his plant re- 

 lated ; but the fllpulas are not marked. 



42. V. feplum. Common Bufli Vetch. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 1038. Willd. n. 39. Fl. Brit. n. 8. Engl. Bot. t. 1515. 

 Fl." Dan. t. 699. Rivin. Tetrap. Irr. t. 56. (V. maxima 

 dumetorum ; Ger. Em. 1227. Aphace ; Fuchf. Hift. 

 110.) — Stalks about four-flowered, much fliorter than the 

 upright fmooth legumes. Leaflets numerous, ovate, ob- 

 tufe. 



