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hardy growth, and when sown upon rich land will return a large supply of green fodder 
for the consumption of horses or for fattening cattle. In the county of Sussex, Young 
observes, “ Tare crops are of such use and importance that not one-tenth of the stock 
could be maintained without them ; horses, cows, sheep, hogs, all feed upon them ; hogs 
are soiled upon them without any other food.” Upon one acre of Tares, Danes main- 
tained four horses in much better condition than upon five acres of grass ; upon eight 
acres he has kept twelve horses and five cows for three months without any other food 
whatever. No artificial food is equal to this excellent plant. A writer who quotes 
this opinion observes that “ this statement must be coupled with the usual produce of 
turnips in Sussex, ten or fifteen tons per acre; hence the superiority of Tares to every 
other green crop.” ‘Tares cut green, Professor Thaer observes, draw no nourishment 
from the soil whatever, while, made into hay, they afford a fodder preferred by cattle to 
peas-straw, and more nutritive than hay or any other herbage. The seeds of the Tare 
are much used as food for pigeons and poultry. The plant is sometimes cultivated with 
this object, being generally sown with beans, and the two threshed out together when 
ripe. The seeds, like those of most European legumes, have been used as human food, 
but are neither very palatable or digestible, though extremely nutritious. 
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Sus-Specres I.—Vicia angustifolia. oth. 
Piates CCCXCIII. CCCXCIV. 
Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 47. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 217. 
Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 459. 
V. sativa, 3 angustifolia, Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 111. 
Stems rather stout, or slender. Leaflets of the lower leaves 
obovate or oblong-oblanceolate, emarginate or truncate at the 
apex; those of the upper leaves oblong-oblanceolate or linear, 
truncate or abruptly acuminated and mucronate at the apex. 
Stipules generally green. Flowers 4 to ? inch long, with the 
standard reddish-purple or crimson. Pods 1 to 1? inch long, gene- 
rally spreading, black or deep olive-brown when ripe, without 
imperfect cellular partitions between the seeds, which produce 
only indistinct bosses on the exterior of the pod. Seeds § inch 
in diameter or less. 
Var. a, segetalis. Koch. 
Puate CCCXCIII. 
Y. sativa, var. 3, Seringe, in D. C. Prod. Vol. II. p. 361. 
V. sativa, 3, angustifolia, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 85. Benth. Handbook Brit. FI. 
p. 179. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. III. p. 281. 
V. angustifolia, Forster, in E. B. 8. No. 2614. 
Stems rather stout. Upper leaves oblong. Flowers mostly in 
pairs. Pods 13 to 2 inches long, splitting the calyx. 
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