152 LEGUMINOSAE 



Vicia gracilis is recorded for all the bordering counties except East 

 Gloucestershire. 



V. Cracca, Linn. Sp. PI. 735 (i753)- Tufted Vetch. 



Cracca, Kivinus, Tetr. Irr. 49. F. multiflora, C. B. Pin. 345. 

 Top. Bot. 121. Syme, E. B. iii. 87, t. 385. Nyman, 206. Fl. Oxf. 88. 

 Native. Septal, &c. Hedges, river-banks, meadows and pastures, 

 railway-banks, &c. Generally distributed and locally abundant, 

 but much less frequent on the heathy ground of the south and 

 west of the county. P. May-September. 

 First record. Vicia cracca, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



Our commonest species of Vetch, frequent by the Thames close to 

 Oxford, Beading, Henley, near Windsor, by the Kennet at Hunger- 

 ford and Newbury, &c., and by the Blackwater near Sandhurst. 

 Especially abundant in grass fields near Steventon. By the Kennet 

 at Midgham I found it with very pale blue, and also with very dark 

 purple-coloured flowers. 



In damj3 shady localities the leaves are naturally broader and we 

 have the form laiifolia. On dry ground the leaves are narrow and 

 sometimes densely hairy as in var. incana, Thuill. Fl, Par. 367. 



V. Cracca occurs in all the bordering counties, and is too ubiquitous 

 a species to require special localities for Berkshire. 



[V. Orobus, DC, Fl. Pr. v. 577 (1815). 



Orohus sylvaticus, Linn. Cent. PI. 1. 23. Top. Bot. 119. Syme, E. B. iii 88, 

 t. 386. Nyman, 207. Fl. Oxf. 87. 



Orobus sylvaticus nostras. In the upper part of Merley Wood near Oxford. 

 D. Sherard in Ray, Syn. ed. 2, 191, 1696. 



On the faith of the above record, Vicia Orobus has been inchided by 

 Withering and other botanists among the plants of Berkshire, but there is 

 little doubt that Sherard mistook V. sylvatica for V. Orobus, which is found 

 in the county. 



V. Orobus occurs in S. Hampshire and E. Gloucestershire.] 



V. sylvatica, Linn. Sp. PI, 734 ;i753). Wood Vetch. 



V. sylvatica multijlora maxima, [How's] Phyt. Brit. 

 Top. Bot. 120. Syme, E. B. iii. 90, t. 387. Nyman, 206. Fl. Oxf. 87, 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods and thickets. Local and rare. P. 



June-August. 



First record. Vicia sylv. /lore albo, P. 1072, G, 1227, near Oxford, 



Mr, Bobart, jun. Merretfs Pinax, 124, 1666. See also Morison, 



Hist. Ox. II, 61, 1680. A specimen of Bobart's is contained in 



Herb. Lu Bois at Oxford, where there is also a specimen collected by 



Billenius from Wytham about 1730. 



1. Isis. About Oxford, Bobart. Upper part of Merley Wood, 



Sherard, * Orobus sylvaticus.' Merley Wood, DiUenius, 1730 (also 



seen there by Mr. Bosicell in 1859, and by myself up to 1892, and 



