PEA AND BEAN TRIBE. 



which is supposed to be the Daniel (Lolium temul- 

 entum). FL June, July. Annual. 



This and the following species are by some botanists 

 placed in a distinct genus, Ervum. 



vfciA HIRS0TA (Hairy Tare). 



9. V. tetrasperma (Smooth Vetch, or Tare). Flowers 

 ' about 2 together, on a slender stalk ; legumes smooth, 

 4-seeded. In similar situations with the last, but less 

 common. The flowers are light purple, and the whole 

 plant much slenderer and less branched than V. hirsuta. 

 Fl. June, July. Annual. 



' f V. grdcilis (Slender Vetch, or Tare) is by some 

 botanists considered a distinct species ; others make it 

 a variety of the last. The floivers grow 1 4 together, 

 and the legumes are 6 8-seeded. It has been found 

 in Kent and the Isle of Wight. Other, but less common, 

 species of Vetch, are V. hybrida (flowers yellow); 

 closely allied to F. lutea, but distinguished by having 

 the outside of the standard clothed with abundance 

 of shining yellowish hair; this is found only on 

 Glastonbury-Tor Hill, and at Swan Pool, near Lincoln : 

 V. Icevigdta (flowers pale blue, or whitish), allied to 

 the last, but having smooth, not hairy, legumes ; grow- 



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