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9. PtTRPiiE-TUFTED Vetch — ( Vicia Crcicca.) 

 Hedges, thickets, and among mowing- grass, abundant. Fl. July, 



August. 



Curtis, ii. 340 ; E. B. ra.. 1168. 



Eveiy botanist has his favourite flower, and I think mine is the purple-tufted 

 vetch. Its deep violet and blue racemes, delicately pinnate and tendrilled leaves, 

 and slim and fragile stems, that seem to float in the air rather than to have risen 

 from the earth, form an ensemble that I never look upon without renewal of the 

 fulness of dehght which they first inspired a quarter of a century ago, when with 

 the Polypodium vulgare, the Cotyledon umbilicus, the feathered Clematis, and 

 other common but magic things, this lovely plant entered the sanctuaries of my 

 imagination. The legumes, which are of a delicate light-brown, are produced in 

 abundance, and ripen at the time of the blooming of the wildhop. 



10. Pencilled Wood Vetch — {Vicia sylvdtica.) 

 Abundant in Cotterill Clough and the vicinity ; found also in damp 

 hedges about Worsley, Tyldesley, Athcrton, and Little Hulton (G.H.); 

 and at Bramhall. (Mr. Isaac Williamson.) Fl. July, August. 

 E. B. ii. 79; Baxter, iii. 173. 

 A charming ornament for a garden hedge. 



11. Fodder Vetch — [Vicia satlva.) 



Common in cultivated fields, aud sown as "fitches" abundantly for 



the food of horses, between the first and second cuttings of red clover. 



Wild about Lymm, and at Bowdon, on the banks of the Chester Road. 



Fl. May, June. Annual. 



E. B. V. \i>l. 



12. Narkow-leaved Crimson Vetch* — {Vicia angustifdlia.) 

 Hedgebanks, green hillocks, and dry, heathy places, rather un- 

 common. Chiefly in the neighbourhood of Bowdon and Dunham. 

 Withington ; Burnage ; Rostheme. Fl. June. Annual. 

 E. B., Supp. i. 2GU. 



13. Bobart's Vetch* — {Vicia Bobdrtii.) 

 Plentiful in Haughton Dale, on the banks of the Tame. Fl. June. 



Annual. 



E. B., Supp. i. 2708. 



* That these two are really distinct is, I think, without any sort of proof, and it 

 may be questioned whether both would not better be included in the fodder vetch. 



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