VICIA 153 



probably still existing). Tubney Wood. Appleton Common, 

 Miss Hoskins in Baxt. Phaen. Bot. 173. 



3. Pang. Ashridge Coppice, plentiful. In Rowcroft Wood, Yat- 



tendon, and in a few other places, Lousley in BusselVs Cat. 1839. 

 Given in Robei'tson's Env. of Eeading of 1843 by Mr. Flower, 

 but without locality. 



4. Kennet. Welford Woods, Miss Boiven. 



V. sylvatica is recorded for all the bordering counties except Surrey , 

 but its record for North Hampshire appears to require corroboration, 

 since it is not included in Townsend's Flora of that county, except for 

 the Isle of Wight. 



V. sepium, Linn. Sp. PI. 737 (1753). Bush Vetch. 



V. sepium per ennis, J. Bauhin, Hist. ii. 313. 

 Top. Bot. 123. Syme, E. B. iii. 91, t. 388. Nyman, 208. Fl. Oxf. 88. 

 Native. Septal. Hedges, woods, and thickets, rather common and 

 .widely distributed, very abundant on the borders of woods on the 

 chalk, P. April- September. 

 First record. V. sepium^ flavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



Var. ocHROLEUCA, Bast. Suppl. n. 8, has been seen near Ashamp- 

 stead and Wytham. 



A form with violet-coloured flowers was noticed by Bisham Wood. 



V. sepium is found in all the bordering counties. 



**V. sATivA, Linn. Sp. PL 736 (1753). Common Vetch. 



Top. Bot. 121. Syme, E. B. iii. 96, t. 392. Nyman, 210. Fl. Oxf. 89. 



Casual. Cornfields, cultivated groiind, waste places. It occurs as a relic of 



cultivation in all the districts, but it does not appear to establish itself. 



A. May-August. 

 First record. V. sativa. Common Vetcli. Much cultivated and found 



extremely profitable, particularly when taken as a meliorating crop, 



Mavor^s Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 Included in list of Streatley plants recorded by Mr. W. Pamplin in Phyt. 

 V. (1854) 154. 



V. angfustifolia, Linn. Amoen. Acad. iv. 105 (1759). Not of D. Clos. 

 Wild Vetch. 



V. Bobatiii, Forst. E. B. Supp. t. 2708 (1831). Linn. Soc. Trans. 

 (1830) 442. 



Top. Bot, 121. Syme, E. B. iii. 97, t, 393 and 4. Nyman, 210. Fl. 



Oxf. 89. Comp. Cyb. Br. 499. 

 Native. Glareal. Dry banks, heathy ground, sandy roadsides, &c. 



Widely distributed and locally common. A. April-July. 

 Fir.st record. Vicia repens Jlore rubra, siliquis longis, foliisque hrevibus. In 



a moor between Sunning and Maidenhead, Merrett's Pinax, 1666. 



A specimen of var. Bobartii, but labelled V. lathyroicles, collected by 



Mr. S. Budge near Sonning about 1800, is in the Herb. Brit. Mus. 



