XXVI. LEGUMINOS^E : YICIE.E. 
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Vicia.'] 
upright rough, upper petioles with two pairs of lanceolate 
leaflets, stipules toothed. E. B. t. 1842. 
Bushy places in gravelly soil, mostly near the sea, but rare. 
Southern counties of England; also Essex, Worcester, Gloucester, 
and Wales. 7f. 7, 8. — Flowers purple, all but the wings, which are 
whitish. Leaflets varying much in breadth, sometimes elliptic-lan- 
ceolate, sometimes nearly linear : there is generally but one pair on 
the lowest petioles. 
**** Peduncles elongated, many-flowered. Calyx gibbous at the base. 
Cracca. 
7. Y. Cracca L. ( tufted V.) ; peduncles many-flowered longer 
than the leaves, flowers imbricated, leaflets lanceolate slightly 
hairy with tendrils, stipules half-arrow-shaped nearly entire. 
E. B. t. 1 1G8. 
Bushy places. "If.. 6 — 8. — Stem 2 — 3 ft. high. Flowers numerous, 
crowded, drooping and imbricated, of a fine bluish-purple. Style 
hairy all round in the upper part ; hairs rather longer on the under 
side below the stigma, but scarcely forming a tuft, as in the true 
Vicia. 
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8. V. O'robus DC. ( Wood bitter F.) ; leaves pinnate hairy 
with 7 — 10 pairs of ovate-oblong acute leaflets without tendrils, 
stipules half-arrow-shaped slightly toothed at the base, peduncles 
many-flowered at length longer than the leaves, stem branched 
decumbent hairy. Orobus sylvaticus L. : E. B. t. 518. 
Rocky and mountainous woods and thickets in the north. If. 5,6. 
— Flowers purplish-white in unilateral racemes. Style filiform, 
equally pubescent all round its upper part. 
9. Y. sylvdtica L. ( Wood V.) ; peduncles many-flowered 
longer than the leaves, leaflets elliptic-oblong mucronate, 
stipules lunate deeply toothed at their base, tendrils branched. 
E. B. t. 79. 
Bushy places in mountainous countries, in Scotland, the north and 
north-west of England, Wales, and Ireland. It has been found near 
Newmarket; and in Oxfordshire, and Kent. "If. 6 — 8. — Stems 
3 — 6 ft. high, climbing by means of its branching tendrils. Leaflets 
6 — 8 or 10 pairs. Flowers very beautiful, numerous, white, streaked 
with hluish veins. Style equally pubescent all round towards the 
stigma. 
***** Peduncles elongated, few-flowered. Style equally pubescent all 
round. Calyx equal at the base. Annual plants. Ervum. 
10. V. tetrasperma Moench. ( slender 7’.); leaflets 3—6 pairs 
linear obtuse or acute, peduncles 1 — 7-flowered, legumes oblong- 
linear glabrous 4 — 8-seeded. — a. leaflets 4 — 6 pairs oblong 
linear obtuse mucronate, tendrils usually branched, peduncles 
