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to a short slender jioiiit. FI. nunierou.s, cream-coloured streaked 
with jiui’iile. Pods lineiir-ohlon^. lliliun extending about round 
the seed. — Rocky woods. P. V. VI. 
** Sti/le bearded below the stiyma, in other respects glabrous 
or uniformly hairy all ooer in its upper part j calyx gibbous 
at the base on the upper side. Vici^ genuinjE. 
t Peduncles elongated, many-flowered. 
6. V. Cracca (L.); leaflets lanceolate mucronate silky in about 
10 pairs, stip. half-arrowshaped entire, caly.x-teeth shorter than 
their tube, upper pair minute, the others subulate, standard but 
little longer than the keel and sinuated at about the middle of 
each side, jiods linear-oblong smooth. — E. B. 1168. St. 31. 6. 
— St. — 4 feet long. FI. blue variegated with purple. “ Seeds 
subglobose, black. Hilum linear, extending half round the seed.” 
Upjier part of the style hairy all over. — Hedges. P. VI. — VIII. 
tt Peduncles few-flowered. 
7. V. bithynica (L.); peduncles shorter than the leaves, leaf- 
lets 4 in the lower, 2 in the upper leaves, elliptic-lanceolate mucro- 
nate or linear-lanceolate acute, stip. half-arrowshaped toothed, 
calyx-teeth longer than their tube lanceolate-subulate, linear- 
oblong hairy. — E. B. 1842. St. 32. 5. — St. 12 — 18 in. long. 
FI. almost always solitary, purple. “ Seeds globose, speckled 
with black and grey; hilum oval.” Upper part of the style 
hairy all over. The inland plant has broader leaf!, and more 
cut stip. than the maritime one. — Bushy places on a gravelly soil. 
P. VII. VIII. E. 
8. V. sepium {1j.); fl. 4 — 6 in small axillary nearly sessile 
clusters, leaflets in 4 — 8 pairs ovate obtuse mucronate gradually 
smaller upwards on the petiole, stip. half-arrowshaped undivided 
or lobed, calyx-teeth unequal shorter than their tube, 2 upper 
ones curved upw'ards, pods linear-oblong glabrous. — E. B. 1515. 
St. 31. 16. — St. about 2 feet high. Fl. purplish. Calyx hairy. 
“ Seeds globose, speckled with black and grey ; hilum linear, 
extending through about f of the circumference.” Upper part 
of the style nearty or quite glabrous, bearded. L. more or less 
hairy. — montana (Koch?); leaflets ovate-lanceolate truncate. 
— Woods and hedges. |8. Hoy, Orkney. P. VI. — VIII. 
9. V. leevigata {Sm.);Jl. solitary axillary, leaflets elliptic- 
oblong rounded mucronate in 4 pairs, stip. cloven, calyx-teeth 
nearly equal as long as the tube subulate, standard glabrous, pods 
compressed oblong glabrous. — E. B. 483. — St. suberect, 3—^ in. 
to 1 foot long. Fl. pale purple. Seeds oblong, brown, attached 
by one end. I have not seen specimens. — On the pebbly beach 
at Weymouth. P. VII. VIII. E. 
