5G VICIA. LATHYRUS. 



The cultivated variety is grown principally for cutting as green food 

 for horses, to supply the vacancy between the first and second cuttings 

 of red clover ; and for their harvest food during their then incessant 

 labour. 



150. V. SEPiuM. 2iJ2Eilt( Care . In deans, meadows, and at hedge- 

 bottoms, common. We sometimes meet with a white-flowered va- 

 riety. June. 



151. V. CRACCA. Wiilti Caif. Rough boggy fields, and in 

 hedges, where it is very ornamental. July-Aug. 



152. V. SYLVATiCA. Wood Vetch: OTtlK ^ca. Deans and 

 brakes, abundantly. B. Along the whole range of our sea-banks, but 

 most profusely about the Needle-eye, below Lamberton Shields, in 

 the ravine above Ross, and in similar localities. Banks of Ale water. 

 On many parts of the banks of the Whiteadder ; and on the Tweed 

 at Dryburgh. Redpath dean in the west ; and on the east in Red- 

 Clues Cleugh, and Penmanshiel wood. — D. Tweed banks beyond Ord 

 Mill. This locality possesses considerable interest. It is the frontage 

 of an old Roman camp, or " Chester knows" ; and there Charles I. 

 pitched his tent. May 28th, 1639, when on his march northwards 

 against the Scotch covenanters. The place was then called " the 

 Birks, two miles west of Berwick." Bord. Table Book, i. p. 260. 

 A concealment in the face of the precipice is still known as the 

 '* King's cove." — For a minute account of the place see Raine's Hist. 

 N. Durham, p. 1 1. 



153. Orobus sylvaticus. Light. Fl. Scot. 390. pi. 16. = Vicia 

 orobus. — B. Howpark dean ; and on a wooded bank between Grant' s- 

 House and Penmanshiel. Above the Rigg-wood on the Eye, J. 

 Hardy. Near Longformacus; in the Snail' s-Cleugh ; and on a whinny 

 bank between Millknowe and Priestley. 



154. Ervum hirsutum = Vicia hirsuta. Corn-fields, meadows, 

 and waste grounds, a common weed. June-Aug. 



12. Faba vulgaris. Don Gard. Diet. ii. 312. Cljf J3can. Cul- 

 tivated from time immemorial ; and we may conclude, almost certainly, 

 that it does not grow wild near the Caspian Sea on the borders of 

 Persia, as stated by Vv^illdenow, Sp. Plant, iii. p. 1111. The kinds 

 cultivated are the large and the small Horse bean, and sometimes the 

 Mazagan, which ripens earlier, but is not productive. 



13. Pisum arvense. Wi)t dTtflU or (^vay 3Pfa. " Were formerly 

 a more general crop than at present : they are mostly grown upon 

 such lands as have been worn out by too long continuance in plough- 

 ing. The early and late Grey Pease are the principal kinds cultivated 

 here." Bailey and Cully's View, p. 90. See also Kerr's Berwick- 

 shire, p. 249. 



155. Lathyrus pratensis. Crato^pcasic. Meadows and pas- 



15. Lathyrus nissolia. " Mr. Embleton intimates to me that it has oc- 

 curred (to whom?) near Leitholm, in Berwickshire." Watson Cyb. Brit. i. 

 p. 323. There is some mistake here, which I cannot explain. 



