42 THE FLORA OF WARWICKSTITRK. 



I. Railway banks near Knowle Station ; in fields about Einidon and 

 Colesliill Heath. Abundant on the new dam, Bracebridge Pool, 

 Sutton Park, and on the railway banks. 

 II. Whitnash, Y. and B. : near Biltoii ! Ruj^by, R. S.R., 1877 ; fields 

 near Marl Cliff ; Oversley Wood ; Cold Comfort, near Alcester ; 

 pea field near Wilmcote ; canal bank, Bearley, etc. 

 V. gracilis, Lois. Slender Tare. 



Native : On cultivated land in calcareous soils. Rare. June, 

 August. 

 II. Whitnash, Y. and B.; Morton Morrell, Herh. Brit. Mus.,H.B., 

 1867 ; Tredington, in a few places, Neicb. ; pea field near 

 Wilmcote. 

 V. Cracca, Liitn. Tufted Vetch. 



Native : In hedges, woods, etc. Common. June to September. 

 Area general. 

 V. sylvatica, Linn. Wood Vetch. 

 Native : In woods. Very rare. 

 I. " Hort's Hill, Hey's Wood, ten miles from Coventry,"* Aliquis, Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., v., p. 768, 1832 ; Hart's Hill Hayes, Rev. A. B., 

 Phijt., iii., 324; Merevale Park, J. Power, MS. vote in B. G. 

 V. sepium, Li7ui. Busli Vetch. 



Native : In woods, and on banks, etc. Common. May to July. 

 Frequent throughout the county. 

 V. sativa, Linn. Cultivated Vetch. 



Denizen : On railway banks, and in cultivated land. May to July. 

 Although I not unfrequently see solitary specimens of this plant, 

 they are never more than stragglers from cultivation, and I 

 cannot look upon it as more than a casual weed. 

 v. angustifolia, Roth. Common Wild Vetch. 



Native : In cultivated fields, on heath lands and hedge banks. 



Rather common. May to August. 

 Var. a. sege talis, Koch. 

 I. Sutton Park ; Coleshill Heath ; Knowle railway bank, etc. 

 II. Kenilworth, Y. and B. ; Tredington, Honingtou, Newb. ; waysides. 

 Iron Cross, near Salford Priors, etc. 

 Var. b. Bohartii, Koch. 



On banks and heathy waysides. Rather rare. 

 I. Coleshill Heath. 

 II. Milverton, Y. and B. ; railway bank near Hatton Station. 

 V. lathyroides, Linn. Spring Vetch. 



Native : In sandy and gravelly soils. Very rare, or overlooked. 

 II. On the side of the Bridle Road from Spernal Ash to Studley, 

 Part., i., 337. As a casual near Milverton, H. B. 



LATHYETJS. 



L. Aphaca, Linn. Yellow Vetchling. 



Colonist : In Lias and marly fields. Very rare. 

 II. Alne Hills, Part., i., 340 ; "Warwickshire,""iS)/me, E. B., ed. 3, iii., 101 ; 

 as a garden weed at Myton, //. B. 

 Although I have made several special visits to the Alne Hills, I 

 have never been able to find this plant there. 



• " It grows in thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, in Hort's Hill, Hey's 

 Wood, just ten miles from Coventry, festooning the underwood with its beautiful 

 chocolate striped petals, etc." 



