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mottled or speckled with black on a dark-brown ground. In 
subv. 2, the pods have often a dark discoloured stripe up the 
middle of each valve. 
A variable pi. altogether, and not alone in size and colour of 
fl. The lfts. vary so much even on the same pi. at different 
periods of growth, that it is impossible to employ the char, of 
their greater or less breadth for the formation of two van’., and I 
have therefore treated L. tenuifolius Desf. as a mere transient form. 
The foregoing subvarr. may however be distinguished ordinarily, 
though they also gradually blend together. In ex. of subv. 1 
and 3 which have been 24 years in my herbarium, the seeds are 
not as above described from fresh ex. in Mad., but plain dull 
blackish brown globoselv lenticular, with a slightly raised ob- 
tuse keel or belt dividing them into two hemispheres, and not 
smooth and even, but obsoletely and frregularly granulate. 
8. L. auticulatus L. 
Smooth not glaucous dicarjish not branched except at the base, 
not rampant ; st. stout robust broadly winged 4-sided climbing 
by the branched tendrils ; lfts. in 2-3 pairs, mostly alternate 
oblong-lanceolate or elliptic acute cuspidate ; stip. semi-sagittate 
unequal, the upper large leafy ovate-oblong or lanceolate ; ped. 
shorter than the 1 . 1-2-fld.; ff. middle-sized crowded towards the 
ends of the branches ; cal. rather large and subinjiated, sep. short 
triangular unequal, 2 upper approximate or converging , 3 lower 
narrower and longer, all much shorter than the tube ; style rhom- 
boidally dilated upwards ; pod narrow-oblong much compressed 
or flat, strongly knobbed or laterally torulose substrangulate with 
slightly sinuate margins, 4-G-seeded, marginate and 3-nerved 
but flat and not channeled at the back or upper suture, smooth 
faintly reticulate; seeds subremote large prominent quadrangular 
compressed, smooth dark dull velvety-brown with black specks; 
liilum linear =4- circumf. of seed. — BM. t. 253; Desf. ii. 159; 
Brot. ii. 139; DC. ii. 375; WB. ii. 110, 111 P— Herb. ann. PS. 
reg. 2, •£. Here and there naturalized and cult, with L. Cicera 
L. as a crop amongst corn occasionally on the hillsides ; GD. £. 
May, J une. In 1832 the crons of the present pi. in PS. were quite 
gr. and still in full 11., whilst those of L. Cicera L. were most- 
ly ripe. — Habit as a crop more like that of Vida sativa L. than 
of either L. Cicera L. or L. C/gmenum L., growing interwoven 
or matted, with short dwarfish st. not above 12 or 18 in. high, 
and branched only from the base or crown of the root. Whole 
pi. bright full gr. St. and foliage altogether larger or stouter 
and coarser than in L. C/gmenum L., the former more broadly 
winged. Petioles broadly winged, the lower leafless. Lfts. 3 
