846 DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Ervtjm. 
Jacq. Hort. 146— (E. Bot. 482. E.)— J. B. ii. 314. 1. 
Leafits inversely egg-shaped, dentate, small, sprinkled with hairs. Stipules 
not brown, but entirely green. Flowers yellow, greyish above, hairy. 
In other respects accords with V. lutea. Linn. (Rather taller than the 
preceding, and less diffuse. Leafits more abrupt. Stipules wholly green. 
Flowers rather larger, and with a reddish not grayish tinge externally. 
But the best characteristic is supposed to be the standard being clothed 
with hairs. E.) 
(Hairy-flowered Yellow Vetch. E.) Meadows and pastures. Glas¬ 
tonbury Tor Hill, as well as V. lutea; Ray and various subsequent 
authorities, and scarcely any other station known. E. P. June—Aug. 
V. lzeviga'ta. Legumes sessile, solitary, reflexed, smooth: stems 
nearly upright: leaves very smooth. 
E. Bot. 483. 
Leaves and whole plant entirely smooth. Stipules green, or pale brown. 
Flowers like those of lutea, but their calyx-teeth are generally more equal 
in length. In colour they are for the most part less yellow, and some¬ 
times quite blue, as represented in the figure, but both species are 
extremely variable in that respect. Legumes quite smooth in every 
stage of their growth, and contain rarely more than five seeds. E. Bot. 
Smooth-podded Sea Vetch. About Weymouth. (Portland Island, 
Chesil Bank, &c. E.) P. July—Sept. E.) 
V. bithyn'ica. Legumes on fruit-stalks, solitary, upright, rough: 
leafits two pair, oval-spear-shaped: stipulse toothed. 
Jacq. Hort. 14T—( E . Bot. 1842. E.)— Allioni 26. 2. 
(Stems many, climbing with tendrils, branched, angular, furrowed, smooth, 
about eighteen inches long. Leaves in two pairs, with leafits large, egg- 
spear-shaped, sharp-pointed, slightly hairy on the under surface. Sti¬ 
pules large, half-arrow-shaped. Flowers axillary, solitary; on fruit-stalks 
of various length, very rarely two-flowered. Seeds five or six, roundish, 
smooth, mottled with black and grey. FI. Brit. The breadth of the 
leafits is variable, sometimes approaching to strap-shaped. E.) Seeds 
protuberating. Flowers , standard and keel reddish purple, wings yel¬ 
lowish white. 
(Rough-podded Purple Vetch. E.) Gravelly corn-fields, pastures, 
and ditch banks. Near Doncaster. Mr. Tofield. Woods near Clifton 
upon Teme, Worcestershire. Dr. Stokes. Portland Island half a mile to 
the left of the Ferry, on loose sand banks. Mr. Stackhouse. (Isle of 
Purbeck; and near Southwick, on the cliffs towards Brighton. Mr. Bor- 
rer. By the road side about two miles from St. Asaph on the way to 
Chester. Rev. H. Davies. On most of the red cliffs of the Devonshire 
coast. Rev. Dr. Beeke, in Bot. Guide. Sunderland Ballast Hills. Mr. 
Winch. E.) P. July—Aug. 
ER'VUM. # ( Stigma capitate, pubescent all over. E.) 
E. tetrasper/mum. Fruit-stalks mostly two-flowered : pods smooth: 
seeds four. 
* (From eruo, to pluck out; as necessary to be eradicated from the growing corn \ to 
separate the tares from the wheat. E.) 
