440 Mr. Forster on the Vicia angustifolia 
V. sylvestris, semine nigro et variegato. Moris. Ox. v. 2. 6s. 
secto Qo tea fr 1k 
Aphaca vera, Vicia Matthiolo. Dalech. Hist. 478. 
Arachus. Lyte’s Herb. 483. 
Arachus, seu Cracca major. Park. 1071. 
Cracce primum genus. Dod. Frum. 161. Pempt. 542. 
Anglis Wild Vetch. 
Habitat. In dry pastures and cornfields, common. 
Confusion seems to have taken place very early in regard to 
this species; for in Gerarde's own edition of his Herball, the. 
Vicia sylvestris, Strangle Tare, 'Tine or Wild Fetch, can scarcely 
be intended for it, the figure being totally unlike it, resembling 
Ervum hirsutum, to which his description is more applicable. 
* Strangle Tare, called in some countries Tine, and of others 
Wilde Vetch, is a ramping herbe like unto the common Tare, 
ramping and climing among corne where it chanceth, that it 
plucketh it downe to the ground, and overgroweth the same in 
such sort, that it spoileth and killeth not onely Wheate, but all | 
other graine whatsoever: the herbe is better knowne than de- 
sired, therefore these few lines may serve for the description." 
"This is probably taken from Dodoens, who in his Historia Fru- 
mentorum Leguminum Palustrium et Aquatilium Herbarum ac 
eorum que eo pertinent, printed in 1569 under Cracce alterum 
genus, has an excellent figure of Eroum hirsutum, with the fol- 
_ lowing observation: ‘‘ Provenit utrumque vicium una cum se- 
getibus, quibus cœli statu humido admodum perniciosum est, 
tunc enim cito incrementum sumens confestim segetem præ- ` 
occupat, teneramque pertinaci vinctu crebrisque circumvoluti- 
onibus, deorsim trahit, delapsamque erigi non patitur ac ca- 
_lamitosam ipsam efficit." Johnson in his edition of the Herball 
has erroneously changed the figure of Vicia sylvestris, adding, 
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