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FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



The scientific name of the wood-vetch is Vicia sylvatica. 

 The generic name is open to a certain amount of doubt, 

 though possibly it may be derived from the Celtic word 

 gwig, from whence spring in turn the German wiclien, and 

 the English word vetch. The specific name is sufficiently 

 indicative of the sylvan shades in which the plant delights 

 to need no lengthy explanation. The wood-vetch is a 

 perennial. It may be met with in flower by about the 

 middle of June, and lasts in flower from that time until 

 well into August. 



