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25. LEGUMJNOS^. 
coloured streaked with purple. Pods linear-oblong. Hihim ex- 
tending about ^ round the seed. — Northern rocky woods. P. 
V. VI. E. S. 
** Upper }mH 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-arrowshaped 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. — £. B. 
1168, St. 31. 6.— St. 3 — 4 feet long. Fl. blue varied with purple. 
Seeds subglobose, black, flilum linear, extending \ roimd the 
seed.— Hedges. P. VIU. E.S.I. 
•** Style bearded belmv the stigma, in other respects glabrous 
or uniformly hairy all over in its upper part ; calyx gibbous 
at tJie base on the xqyper side. 
7. V. bithyn'ica (L.); ped. falling short of the leaves 1 — 2- 
flowered, Its. of upper I. tn 2 pairs elliptic-lanceolate mucronate 
or linear-lanceolate acute, stip. half-an'owshaped toothed, calyx- 
teeth longer than their tube lanceolate-subulate, pods linear- 
oblong hairy.—K B. 1842. St. 32. 5.— St. 12—18 in. long. 
Fl. 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 leaflets and more 
cut stip. than the maritime oue. — Bushy places on a gravelly 
soU, rare. P. VII. VIII. fi. 
8. V. sepittm (L.); Jl. 4 — 6 in small axillary nearly sessile 
clusters, leaflets in 4—8 pairs ovate blimt mucronate gradually 
smaller upwards on the petiole, stip. half-arrowshaped undividecl 
or lobed, caly.x-teeth unequal shorter than their tube, 2 upper 
ones curved upwai"ds, pods linear-oblong glabrous. — H. B. 1515. 
31. IG.— St. about 2 feet high. Fl. purplish. Calyx hairy. 
Hiluni linear, extending about f round the seed. Upper part 
of the style nearly or quite glabrous, bearded. L. more or less 
haiiy, leaflets sometimes ovate-lanceolate tnmcate. — Woods and 
hedges. P. VI.— VIII. E. S. L 
[V.f Irevigdta (Sm.) ; Jl. solitary axillary, leaflets eUiptic- 
obJong rounded mucronate in 4 pairs, stip. cloven, calyx-teeth 
nearly equal as long as the tube subulate, standurd glabrous, podit 
compressed oblong glabrous. — E. B. 483. — St. suberect, 3—4 in. 
to 1 foot long. i1. pale purple. — Perhaps a state of F. lutea\ 
I have not seen specimens. — On the pebbly beach at Weymouth 
formerly, but now lost. P. VII. VIII.] E, 
