196 
25. LEGT7MrN0S.ZE. 
mostly 6-7-seeded. Seeds dark blackish-brown smooth even 
with a short rounded oval hilum not =y$ circumference of 
seed. 
Mr. Carruthers informs me that “inB.H. there is a spec, of 
E. gracile (Loisel.) from Jacquin, gathered in Languedoc, labelled 
in Jacquin’s own handwriting : — 1 Ab Ervo tetraspermo differt 
seminibus pluribus quam quatuor, et foliolis acutis. Videtur nova 
Ervi species.’ This shows that Jacquin first distinguished the 
species.” 
7P. E. pubescens DC. 
More or less pubescent rarely glabrescent, branched climbing 
rampant ; lfts. oblong rathe)' short and broad the lower oval, all 
obtuse submucronate in 5-7 or 8 pairs, the tendrils branched twi- 
ning ; stip. upper linear-acute, the lower semi-hastate ; ped. 2-4- 
fld. filiform awned (“awnless” Gren. and Godr.) shorter or scarcely 
longer than the l. ; sep. distinctly unequal elongated-triangular at 
length linear-subulate longer than their tube shorter than cor. : pods 
mostly pubescent linear-oblong 5 -6-seeded ; seeds globose even, 
hilum roundish-oval small =^o circumf. of seed. — DC. ii. 367 
(not Tenor, or Loisel.) ; Gren. et Godr. FI. Fr. 1. 474. u Vida 
tetrasperma Moris FI. Sard. 1. 567 ! (not Moench) ” Gr. andG. 1. c. 
V. tetrasperma a. WJB ! ii. 100 (not Moench, and excl. most of 
the syn.). 
/3. glabrescens ; smooth except the younger portions of the pi. 
and cal. ; ped. awned. — Vida gracilis Sol. ! MSS. in part, and BH. ! 
quoad ex. ad sinistram schedae u 1. Madeira 1768, JB. and DS.” 
inscriptum ; Buch ! 197. no. 390 in part also. Vida tetraspermum 
Moench (Phvtogr. Canar. 2. pag. 99) Teneriffe : in campis san 
Iloque, Maio 1845, Bourgeau ! PI. Canar. no. 599 in BH. and HH. 
— Mad. Sir J. Banks and Dr. Solander, 1768 : not observed more 
recently. 
My sole authority for this as a Mad. pi. is the scrap referred to 
in BII. pasted by Solander on the same sheet with a spec, in fr. 
of Vida albicans Lowe and marked as collected by himself and 
Sir Joseph Banks in Mad. a.p. 1768. It is Solander’s original 
and principal type for his V. gracilis, though lie described the 
pods of that pseudo-species from the other right-hand spec, of 
V. albicans Lowe. It is also the pi. mentioned by myself twice 
in Primit. (ed. 2) App. p. v. under the name of E. hirsutum L. as 
it had been inadvertently called by my friends Lemann and Ben- 
nett in Utt. I had subsequently on personal inspection referred 
it to E. gracile (Loisel.) ; but I now acquiesce entirely in the 
