440 Mr. FoRSTER on the Vicia angustifolia 



V. sylvestris, semine nigro et variegato. Moris. Ox. v. 2. 63. 



sect. 2. t. 4. f. 11. 

 Aphaca vera, Vicia Matthiolo. Dalech. Hist. 478. 

 Arachus. Lyte's Herb. 483. 

 Arachus, seu Cracca major. Park. 1071. 

 Craccae primum genus. Dod. Frum. I6l. 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 spoiieth 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 qua. eo pertinent, printed in 1569 under Cracca alteram 

 genus, has an excellent figure of Ervum hirsutum, with the fol- 

 lowing observation : " Provenit utrumque vicium una cum se- 

 getibus, quibus coeli statu humido admodum perniciosum est, 

 tunc enim cito incrementum sumens confestim segetem prae- 

 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. 



