DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Vicia. 
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(3) Flowers solitary, nearly sessile. 
V. lathyroFdes. Legumes solitary, upright smooth: leafits about 
six, the lower ones inversely heart-shaped: stipube half-arrow* 
shaped, very entire: seeds cubic, warty. E. Bot. 
Dicks. H. S.—Jacq. Misc. ii. 18—_E. Bot. 30— FI. Dan. 58 —Riv. Tetr. 169. 
V. minima. — Kniph. 3— Herm. Par. 242. 
Stipulce not spotted. Whole plant hairy except the seed-vessels. Boot 
small, fibrous, annual. Stems several, a foot high or less; weak, trail¬ 
ing. Leafits four to six pair, and never more, opposite, the upper ones 
mostly spear-shaped. Tendrils never branched. Stipulce half-arrow¬ 
shaped, the upper spear-shaped, pointed. Flowers small, bluish purple, 
sometimes white. 
The true leading characters of this species are, the blossom being scarcely 
longer than the calyx, the seeds cubic, and the tendril never branched. 
Woodw. In the fig. of E. Bot. FI. Dan. and Kniphofius, the tendrils are 
wanting; in those of Jacquin and Rivinus -they are represented as un¬ 
branched, agreeable to Mr. Woodward’s observation, but in Dickson’s 
specimens, published in his fourth fasciculas of dried plants, the tendrils 
are branched. 
V. lathyroides, var. y. Huds. Ervum soloniense. Sp. PI. fid. Sm. 
Strangle Vetch or Tare. Spring Vetch. Dry pastures, gravel pits, 
and corn-fields, in gravelly, sandy, and chalky soils. King’s Park, Edin¬ 
burgh. Lightfoot. In the dry parts of Hyde Park. Mr. Dickson. Nor¬ 
folk. Mr. Woodward. (Near Beverley. Teesdale, In the warren at 
Esher, Surry. Mr. Borrer. Swelling, near the church, and Aldborough 
Common, Suffolk. Rev. G. Crabbe. Near the signal house at Westle- 
ton, Suffolk. Mr. Davy. Bot. Guide. On the chalky banks near Green- 
hithe. Sherard. Sea shore south of Shields; and salt meadows below 
Gateshead. Mr. Winch. On the side of the bridle road from Spernall to 
Studley, Warwickshire. Purton. E.) A. May. 
V. lu'tea. Legumes sessile, refiexed, hairy, solitary: stems diffuse: 
standard smooth : (stipulse coloured. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 74— E. Bot. 481. E.)— H. Ox. ii. 21. row 2. f. 2— J. B. ii. 
313. 1. 
( Stems one to two feet long. Bloss. sometimes striped, or nearly white. 
E.) Leaves alternate; leafits three to five pair, mostly alternate, oblong, 
blunt, and dentate, or strap-spear-shaped. Stipulce spear-shaped, minute. 
Tendrils terminal, simple, or divided into two or three. Blossom pale 
yellow. Seed-vessel woolly. Woodw. (Permanently differing from the 
still more rare V. hyhrida, in the smooth vexillum of the flower, in the 
dark spot upon the stipule, and in the much less obtuse leaves. D. Tur¬ 
ner. E.) 
Rough-podded Yellow Vetch. (On the shore near Shoreham. Mr. J. 
Middleton. On the beach at Orford, about half a mile from the river’s 
mouth. Mr. Humphrey. Sand pit on the side of Glastonbury Tor Hill. 
Mr. Dawson Turner. Bot. Guide. About Pinxton and Derby. Pilking- 
ton. Near Keswick. Hooker. Sea side west of North Queensferry. Mr. 
G. Don, in Grev. Edin. E.) (P. Aug. E.) 
V. hy'rrida. Legumes sessile, solitary, reflexed, hairy: standard 
villous; (leafits abrupt* E.) 
