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recently given the subject consideration draws the following con- 
clusion : 
" Lotus corn i culatus is practically self-sterile, 
bat occasional plants set a few se^Ha after self-polli- 
nation. Plants of L. major Smith (= L_j_ uliginosus Schk.) 
are, on the whole, incapable of spontaneous self-polli- 
nation, but after artificial self-pollination practically 
all plants are self-fertile, some to a very high degree. 
Thus these two perennial species are almost entirely de- 
pendent upon insect visitors for see d formation . " 
Vetches (Vicia) 
Schelhorn, K. 
194-2. Blutenbiologische Studien an der Zottelwicke. Pflanzenbau. 
IS: 311-320. 
Hungarian ( Vicia pannonica ) and hairy vetch (V. villosa ) . 
were screened to exclude bees. In the former 38 percent of the 
flowers produced seed but only 3.5 percent of the latter. Hairy 
vetch was found to be self -fertile but to require bees to transfer 
the pollen. The author concluded that seed production in hairy 
vetch is almost entirely dependent on the visits of bees to effect 
the transfer of pollen. [Abstracted from translation by Carlo Zeimet.] 
Vici a villosa 
(Hairy, Hungarian, Russian, Siberian, or Villous Vetch) 
Robbins, W. W. 
1931. The botany of crop plants. Ed. 3, 608 pp. 
pp. 4-11-412: There are five to eight pairs of leaflets, 
and many (about thirty) violet-blue, rarely white, flowers in 
one-sided racemes. Cross-fertilization is necessary for +he 
normal production of seeds. Bees are the chief agents in the 
dissemination of pollen. 
