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25. LEGUMIXOSJE. 
Grown amongst corn (wheat, rye, or barley) as clover in Eng- 
land. When ripe the whole pi. is pulled up by the roots and 
dried in bundles. The ripe seeds are a favourite pulse with the 
poor. 
2. E. PAHYiFLORUM (Loisel.). 
Climbing branched rampant subpubescent ; lfts. in mostly 
5- 7 pairs but often irregularly alternate especially downwards 
linear-oblong or elliptic distinctly mucronate; the tendrils 
branched prehensile twining; stip. half-arrow-shaped linear- 
lanceolate ; ped. 2-3-fld. awned shorter than the 1. ; sep. un- 
equal linear-lanceolate finely acuminate shorter than cor. ; pod 
short broad obliquely truncate smooth and even, subpuberulous 
only at the upper edge, 2-seeded ; seeds compressed globose 
minutely scabrous. — “ Vida parvijlora Loisel. (not Mich.).” 
“ Ervum parviflorum Bertol. Moris Sard. 1. 570, t. 71. Vida 
disperma DC. ii. 359 ; WB. ii. 101. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, rrr. 
Along the Levada de Bom Successo up the Caminho do Meio, 
in the Rib. de Joao Gomes in waste rocky places or bramble- 
hedges amidst cult, ground. March, April. — Most like E. hir- 
sutum L. in habit and fl., but lighter gr. with large smooth pods 
like E. Lens L. St. branched ribbed and angular climbing and 
entangled amongst other pi. or bushes. Lfts. 2-5 lines long, 
1-1^ broad, mostly acute at each end, often obtuse, always di- 
stinctly mucronate, in 4-8 pairs but set very irregularly on the 
rachis. Fl. 1-4 very small 2 lines long scarcely larger than 
those of E. hirsutum L., pale grey or bluish, the keel tipped 
with v. -black. Cal. and sep. hairy ; the latter unequal, the 2 
uppermost broadest and shortest subtriangular or semi-ovate- 
lanceolate converging, the 2 side ones rather narrower and 
longer, the lowest narrowest (linear-subulate) and longest ; all 
finely acuminate longer than the tube but shorter than cor. 
Style hairy all round upwards below the capitate stigma, not 
bearded. Pod large like that of E. Lens L., nut rather longer 
and more obliquely truncate (not perfectly ripe in my spec.) 
6- 8 lines long, 3 broad, very fiat and thin with always 2 pro- 
minent seeds, perfectly smooth and even, except along the upper 
fertile suture which is minutely subpuberulous, pendulous pale 
yellowish-brown or fawn-colour. Seeds (not quite ripe) a line 
or a tenth of an in. in diam. dark brown or blackish finely 
punctato-granulate or scabrous; hilum small. 
This sp. much resembles in its pods and foliage E.vicioides 
Desf. ii. 168, t. 198. Its transfer from Vida to Ervum permits, 
and indeed necessitates, recurrence to Loiseleur’s original spe- 
cific name, forestalled in Vida by Michaud, as dispermum of 
DeCandolle is by Roxburgh or Willdenow in Ervum. 
