Order IV. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
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10381 Petioles -Heaved, Stipules crenate, Peduncles 1-flowered 
10382 Petioles flat above. Stem angular, Stipules sagittate, Peduncles many-flowered 
10383 Peduncles many-fl. Petioles many-leaved, Leaflets ovate : lower sessile 
1038-1 Peduncles many-fl. Leaflets reflexed ovate mucronate. Stipules somewhat toothed 
10385 Peduncles many-fl. longer than leaf. Leaflets ellii)t. Stipules lunate with setaceous teeth 
10386 Peduncles many-fl. shorter than leaf. Leaflets oblong subpubesc. Stipules half sagittate entire lanceolate 
10387 Peduncles many-fl. shorter than leaf. Teeth of calyx setaceous very villous, I>eaflets lanceolate villous 
10388 Peduncles many-fl, longer than leaf, Flowers imbricated. Leaflets obi. ovate villous, Stip. half-sagittate 
10389 Peduncles many-fl. longer than leaf. Flowers imbricated, Leafl. lane, blunt, Stip. half-sagitt. lin. subulate 
10390 Peduncles many-fl. longer than leaf. Flowers imbricated, Leafl. lin. smoothish 3-nervod, Stip. lin. entire 
10391 Peduncles many-fl. longer than leaf. Flowers distant, Leafl. lin. Stiji. half-sagitt. lin. lane, toothed at base 
10392 Peduncles many-fl. Petioles suleate 12-leaved, Leaflets lane, smooth, Stip. half-sagittate stalked 
10393 Peduncles many-fl. Leaflets obi. Stipules entire. Pods villous ovate oblong 
10394 Peduncles many-fl. Leaves entire. Stipules entire, Pods nearly erect 
10395 Peduncles many-fl. long. Upper leaves subcirrhous. Stipules half-sagittate entire, Leafl. oval-obl. hoary 
10396 Peduncles many-fl. long. Leaves not cirrhous, Leafl. obi. lane, silky beneath, Stip. lanceol. entire 
10397 Peduncles many-fl. shorter than leaf which is not cirrhous, I>eaflets obovate emarginate, Stip. oblong 
10398 Peduncles 2-flowered awned shorter than leaf. Leaflets linear narrowed at each end, Stip. half-sagittate 
10399 Pods subsessile solitary. Leaflets ovate. Stipules marked 4-toothed 
10400 Pods sessile sub-binate. Leaflets obi. ovate truncate mucronate, Stipules toothed marked 
10401 Pods sessile sub-binate spreading. Lower leaflets ovate emarginate : upper lin. entire. Seeds globose 
10402 Pods sessile : lower subterranean. Leaflets linear truncate. Stipules half-sagittate 
10403 Pods sessile solitary erect smooth. Leaflets 6 : lower subcordate 
10404 Pods sessile solitary reflexed hairy. Stems diffuse. Stipules colored. Standard smooth 
10405 Pods sessile solitary reflexed hairy 5-seeded, Standard villous 
10406 Pods stalked reflexed. Standard silky, Stipules lanceolate marked, Upper leaflets obi. elliptical acute 
10407 Pods sessile solitary reflexed smooth. Stems nearly erect, Leaves quite smooth 
10408 Pods sessile solitary reflexed downy, Leaflets linear blunt. Stipules half-sagittate entire 
10409 Pedunc. 1-fl. in fruit longer than leaf and awned. Leaflets linear blunt mucronate. Stipules multifiil 
10410 Pods stalked about 3, and the standard hairy. Stipules lanceolate marked 
10411 Pods subsessile twin reflexed smooth. Leaflets obi. ovate retuse. Stipules marked 
10412 Pedunc. 1-fl. very short, Leafl. lin. lane, truncate. Stipules lane, undivided. Pods finely downy 
10413 Pods subsessile pendulous smooth 4-seeded, Leaflets linear emarginate 
10414 Pedunc. 1-fl. awned. Leaflets lanceolate blunt. Stipules bifid 
10415 Pods stalked about 4 erect. Leaflets ovate entire 
10416 Pods stalked solitary erect. Leaflets 4 oval-lanceolate. Stipules toothed 
10417 Pods subsessile solitary compressed somewhat inflated. Leaflets ovate toothed at end, Stip. cil. toothed 
10418 Pods subsessile subternate compressed. Leaflets ovate entire. Stipules ciliate toothed at base 
10419 Pods subsessile subternate. Leaves and stipules serrate 
10420 Pods subsess. subtern. torulose. Leaflets ovate entire, Petioles not cirrhous, Stip. sagittate toothed at base 
even very distinct varieties. The winter variety is sown in September and October, and the summer at 
different periods, from February to June, for successional cuttings. The soil requires to be in a good heart, 
otherwise they will produce but a poor crop of herbage : on a good soil they will yield ten or tweh^e tons, 
which is found excellent for milch cows and working stock. The crop is seldom left to ripen its seeds, but 
when seeds are wanted ; the only use made of them being for sowing or feeding pigeons. 
V. narbonensis and serratifolia are cultivated in Germany in the same manner as our tare. Vicia sepium 
has been recommended to be sown among clover for mowing. 
V. Faba is a well known legume both of the garden and the field. The garden varieties are numerous ; 
the earliest is a small seeded variety, the Mazagan, and the largest the "Windsor. Beans are planted at 
the various times in which pease are sown ; but the late sowings of this plant do not answer so well as those of 
the pea. "When the ground is properly pulverised and in good heart, they succeed well when transplanted ; 
and where a first crop is injured by insects, if the stems are cut down to the ground during their flower- 
ing season, they will send up a succession of shoots, which will bear a crop. In this way, according to some, 
the bean may be rendered perennial, as it is certain the scarlet kidney bean may by merely protecting tlie 
roots from the frost. 
The field bean, of which there is a larger and smaller sort, the latter called ticks, is sown in drills by a 
machine, so as to admit of horse hoeing, and otherwise ploughing or stirring betv/een the rows. By this 
means a larger crop is produced, and the land cleaned and brought into a better state for a succeeding corn 
crop. Beans are excellent food for hard working horses, and for fatting hogs for bacon. The flower of beans 
and pease is more nutritive than that of oats, but less easy of digestion. A bushel of beans is supposed to 
yield fourteen pounds more of flour than a bushel of oats, and a bushel of pease eighteen poiuids more, or, 
according to some, twenty pounds. A thousand parts of bean flour were found, bv Sir H. Davey, to yield 
570 parts of nutritive matter, of which 426 were mucilage or starch, 103 gluten, and 41 extract, or matter 
rendered insoluble during the process. 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
