VICIA. 
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Whole pi. of a whitish or hoary dull gr. and more or less vil- 
lose with white hairs. Lfts. from 12-25, mostly 20, irregularly 
opposite or alternate, very uniform in shape and size, about 5 
or 6 lines long and 2 or 3 broad, obtuse or subacute, all di- 
stinctly mucronate. Stip. rather broad at the base, deeply cut 
into sharp subulate teeth. Ped. short quadrangular |-1 in. 
long, the 1. being from 1-3 in. long. FI. rather large \ in. long, 
mostly 2-4, lax or remote, a little larger than the fl. of V. Cracca 
L., bright rose-purple downwards, dark dull blackish-purple up- 
wards, with the standard streaked with darker lines. Cal. 
similarly coloured more or less, with the 3 setaceous lower sep. 
greenish, the middle one longest but scarcely longer, often 
shorter, than the tube ; the whole thickly clothed with long 
soft white hairs. Style hairy all round below the globose capi- 
tate stigma, bearded beneath ; pod an inch or a little more 
long, 3-4 lines broad, flattened compressed, but a little turgid 
and torulose when ripe, pale brown or fawn-colour ; in all stages 
thickly clothed with short adpressed soft white hairs. Seeds 
4-6, mostly 4, dark-coloured, being mottled or marbled with 
dark-brown and small black specks on a paler greenish ground. 
The true V. atropurpurea Desf., which I have gathered several 
times and carefully observed in the Canaries, is an altogether 
larger more robust ph, with full-gr. scarcely at all hoary foliage, 
and large many-flowered racemes : nor do these differences ap- 
pear attributable to mere luxuriance of growth. 
Vicia gracilis Sol. ! in BH., and consequently of Von Buch, 
is a mixture founded on a spec, in fl., but without fr., of Ervum 
pubescens DC. /3. supra p. 196 (inadvertently called by Lemann 
and Bennett in litt., and so twice by myself in Primit. (ed. 2) 
App. p. v, Ervum hirsutum L.), and Vida albicans Lowe. An 
ex. of each of these two sp. has been pasted by Solander on one 
sheet, — that of E. pubescens DC. /3. (Solander’s original type, 
though he described the pods from the other spec.) being on 
the left hand of the sheet and referred to at the back as 
“ 1. Madeira, 1768, JB. and DS. the other right-hand spec. 
( Vicia albicans Lowe) being marked u 2. Madeira, 1777, Fr. 
Masson.” This last was the type of my Vicia micrantha Prim, 
p. 33 ; and it is certainly merely a smoother-leaved state than 
usual of V. albicans. See Prim. (ed. 2) App. pp. iv, v. 
§ 2. Fl. nearly sessile, axillary either solitary or in short few- 
flowered clusters. 
t2. V. COED AT A Wulf. 
Robust succulent leafy pubescent bright full gr. ; st. stout 
