VICIA LUTEA. ROUGH-PODDED YELLOW VETCH.
VICIA teea ; legimnibus sessilibus solitariis reflexis pilosis, caulibus diffusis, stipulis coloratis, vexillo
V ld A la te a ^ K n n .S p P l.p 1037. Bud,. Am i, ». 319. WÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊSk
WÊÊÊÊÊÊÊI n ' 3 WÊMà 8 J ■ ÜPL mL 3- 1- 1107. Smith Fl. Brit.p. 773.
Er r f f ' J ' Î S } ' Pl- Pr- ed. 3. ml. 4. p. S9S. Fl. Gall. Sm. p. 360. Pers. Sm.
PI. vol. 2. p. 308. Alton Hort. Kezo. ed. 2. vol. 4>. p . 3 14 . ^
Class and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
[Natural Order. LEGü MINOSÆ, J uss. Decand.]
Gen. Char. Stigma latere iûferiori transverse barbatum. Sm.
Radix longe descendens, fibrosa, perennis.
Caules plurimi, pedales et ultra, graciles, angulati, gla-
bri, diffusi, flexuosi, ramosi, dichotomy
Folia alterna, apice cirrhosa, foliolis deceiii ad quatu-
ordecim, elliptico-lanceolatis, petiolis brevissimis
insidentibus, apiculatis, marginibus paululum re-
curvis superficieque subtus prsecipue pilosis.
Stipulæ parvoe, ovato-acuminatæ, subobliquæ, hinc ba-
si sæpe unidentatæ, flavo-fuscæ, medio macula
atro-sanguinea.
Flores axillares, solitarii, brevissime pedunculati, erec-
ti, pallide sulphuréi.
Calyx tubulosus, striatus, subpilosus, gibbosus, quin-
que-dentatus, dentibus inæqualibus.
Vexillum omniuo glabrum, obscure lineatum.
P ericarpium : Legumen sesquiunciam longum,demum
reflexum, birsutum, compressum, latum.
Semina circiter sex, subrotunda.
Embryo curvatus. Cotyledones hemisphæricæ.
Root descending deep, fibrous, perennial.
Stems many, a foot and more long, slender, angulate,
smooth, diffuse, flexuose, branched, dichotomous.
Leaves alternate, cirrhose at the extremity, with from
• ten to fourteen elliptico-lanceolate leaflets, seated
on very short petioles, apiculate, with the margins
a little recurved and as well the surface, especially
beneath, hairy;
Stipules small, ovato-acuminate, somewhat oblique, on
one side at the base often furnished with a tooth,
yellow brown, with a black-sanguineous spot in
the middle.
Flowers axillary, solitary, shortly pedunculated, erect,
pale sulphur colour.
Calyx tubulose, striated, somewhat hairy, gibbous, fivetoothed,
with the teeth unequal.
Standard altogether smooth, obscurely lineated.
Pericarp : a pod an inch and a half long, at length
reflexed, hairy, compressed, broad.
Seeds about six in each pod, roundish.
I Embryo curved. Cotyledons hemispherical.
S §jf|; O S S ,FiS- 3- Calyx. Fig. 4. Standard of the corolla. Fig. 5. Win^s of ditto Fis- 6
more or kss°m^^ifiecl.CaPSU^e '' * * °f ^ Em b .y f.-A ll b u ^ . t l d Ÿ a f e
W h ^ t f lr f™ ? ’' 5 T j u rland; Glastonbury Tor, hill, Somersetshire; Pinxton and Derby, Derbyshire- on the
beaeh atOrford and Aldborough, Suffolk; and in the same situation atShoreham, Sussex :±su charethe stoSoS
and at presea die only ones that we know of, for this plant. It was from the latter plane tha? oar snedme™ S
aUh“ e dme “ bESmni°S ° f JuDeJast- beaAS W « * andPconsiderably advanced seeds
H H i B | B Flm> of » delicate and slender mode of growth, very nearly approaching to'the more rare
Vicia hybrida, but differing from it m the smooth vexillum of the flower in the dark snnt- nnnn fL of; i 6 ,a^e
the much less obtuse leave!. Dr. Beeke was disposed to
the c h ^ a c S w h i c h w e l i t " " ” '"ltiVated ^ f° r “ V rm. M s them always constant to
sef° "l6 !ist ?f. s7n“nyras H this plant is not found in Scotland, Sweden, or Denmark ■ from
whence it may be inferred that it is rather too tender to bear a greater degree of cold than that of our own dimate.