DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Vicia. 841 
Whole plant smooth. Stems with somewhat membranous edges. Leafits 
two or three pair, spear-shaped. Tendrils three-cleft. Flowers three to 
six or more, pointing one way. Woodw. Blossom blueish purple. (Le- 
gume pendulous, smooth. Fruit-stalks twice as long as the leaves, bear¬ 
ing three to six flowers. Stem climbing with tendrils, four feet long. 
E.) 
Chickling Vetch. Marsh Vetchling. Moist meadows and pastures. 
Peckham Field on the back of Southwark. Ray. Wood near Abingdon. 
Blackstone. Charley Forest, near Bardon Hill, Leicestershire. Dr. Pul- 
teney. Lancashire and Yorkshire. Hudson. Near Ranaugh, Norfolk. 
Mr. Humphrey. (Marshes near Beverley, abundant. Teesdale. Near 
Leeds, and Hull. E.) P. July—Aug. 
VIC'IA.* Summit bearded underneath. 
(1) Fruit-stalks long; many-flowered. 
V. sylvat'ica. Leafits oval: stipulse finely toothed, (crescent-shaped. 
E.) 
Dicks. H. S. — FI. Dan. 277 — E. Bot. 79 — Pink. 71. 1— Hall. 12. 2. at i. p. 
172. 
Stems numerous, and so much branched that they choak whatever plants 
they come near. Leaves with eight or nine pair of leafits, and terminated 
by a long and very much branched tendril; leaflts egg-shaped, oftener 
alternate than opposite; smooth, with a net-work of veins, and ending 
in a short point. Stipules in pairs, small, deeply divided into several awl- 
shaped segments. Fruit-stalks long, thick, quadrangular, scored, up¬ 
right. Flowers numerous, on the upper part of the fruit-stalk pendent, 
growing irregularly, mostly in twos and threes, with interruptions. 
Calyx, teeth awl-shaped. Blossom rather large; standard and wings 
whitish, beautifully veined and streaked with blue. Woodw. Style and 
summits so slender that the beard on the under side at the end can 
scarcely be discerned. 
Wood Vetch. (Welsh: Ffugbysen y wig. E.) (Woods, bushes, and 
hedges. E.) Malham, near Settle, Yorkshire, and elsewhere in the 
North. Woodward. Thicket on the north side of Bredon Hill, Worces¬ 
tershire. Nash. Shelton Bank, near Salop. Mr. Aikin. Woods on lime¬ 
stone about Newton Cartmel for a few years after the woods have been 
cut down. Mr. Hall. Urswick woods, climbing up the trees for several 
yards, so as to be very ornamental. Mr. Atkinson. Beech wood, close by the 
monument on Lansdown, Bath. Mr.Swayne. (Woods near Scarborough. 
Mr. Travis. Near the bridge over the Elwy called Pont y rallt coch, 
Denbighshire. Mr. Griffith. Between Lyminge and Elham, Kent. Rev. 
R. Price, in Smith’s Obs. Culgaith woods, by Eden, and Keswick. Hut¬ 
chinson. Isell woods, Cumberland, where it covers the rocks in beauti¬ 
ful festoons. Rev. J. Dodd. Castle Eden Dean, Durham. Winch Guide. 
Woods on the Greta, Yorkshire; Kirby Lonsdale, and King’s Park, 
Edinburgh. Mr. Winch. In the Old Park and mill dingle, near Beau¬ 
maris. Welsh Bot. Lanes about Brislington and Stock wood, near 
Bristol, ascending to the height of many feet. E.) P. July—Aug. fi 
* (According to Varro so denominated a vinciendo f as binding other plants with its 
tendrils. E.) 
fi (The habits of this Vetch are similar to those oilV. cracca ; but it seems more 
impatient of exposure. When transplanted to open situations, the produce is inconsider- 
