THE WOOD- VETCH. 



Vicia sylvatica. Nat. Ord., 

 Leguminosce. 



'NY of our readers who have 

 taken such an interest in 

 plants as to care to collect 

 them, or at least to observe 

 them, will no doubt have 

 readily detected that certain 

 plants are always found under 

 certain conditions, and that 

 beyond the pale imposed by 

 these conditions, all search is 

 fruitless and disappointing. 

 A plant may therefore be 

 either very rare or very com- 

 mon very common if searched 

 for in the right place, and at 

 the proper season; very rare 

 if searched for amidst uncon- 

 genial surroundings. The 

 common and the open moor- 

 land, the stream, the sea-beach, the woodland glade, have 

 each their appropriate flora, and it is only by visiting 

 all these that one gets a fair idea of the rich variety of 

 our wild plants. The heaths, the golden broom, and 

 prickly furze, are all in an especial degree plants of 

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