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THE PEAFLOWER TRIBE. 



In mountain pastures and woods, in western Europe, from the 

 Pyrenees to southern Norway, reappearing eastward in Bavaria and 

 Transylvania. In Britain, spread over Wales, northern England, and a 

 great part of Scotland, more rare in Ireland. FL early summer. 



Arctic Circle. 



6. Bush Vetch, Vicia sepium, Linn. (Fig. 278.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1515.) 



A slightly hairy perennial ; the stems 

 1 to 2 feet high, weak and straggling, 

 but scarcely climbing. Stipules small 

 and entire, or larger and toothed. Leaflets 

 4 to 6 pairs in each leaf, ovate or oblong ; 

 the leafstalk ending in a tendril, usually 

 branched. Flowers smaller than in the 

 common V. f of a light reddish-purple, 2 

 to 4 together in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, drooping from short pedicels, 

 and forming a sessile cluster or a very 

 short raceme. Style with a dense tuft 

 of hairs under the stigma on the outer 

 side, with a few short hairs on the op- 

 posite side. Pod glabrous, about an inch 

 long. Seeds few, half encircled by the 

 long, linear hilum. 



In woods and shady places, and 

 hedges, extending over Europe and Bus- 

 si an Asia, from the Mediterranean to the 

 Common in Britain. Fl. all summer. 



Fig. 278. 



7. Yellow Vetch. Vicia lutea, Linn. (Fig. 279.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 481.) 



A glabrous or slightly hairy annual, said however by some to form a 

 perennial rootstock ; the steins spreading, branched, usually low, but 

 sometimes ascending to a foot or more. Stipules, foliage, and solitary 

 flowers of the common V., but the corolla is of a pale-yellow, and the 



